Sure, they could go find new people who do this job for free (and thanks to the API changes virtually tool-less) or hire people to do it for them. Whether those people will be equally successful in nurturing their communities, who knows.
But it’s definitely an option and probably only a matter of time before it happens.
Couldn’t the Admin team just force-open subs, at least the big ones?
Am I missing something? I mean they could just hire new mods.
I hope they don’t, but spez isn’t exactly known for being righteous
They could, but this would probably anger people further. So they’re hoping it blows over without them needing to take aggressive actions.
Sure, they could go find new people who do this job for free (and thanks to the API changes virtually tool-less) or hire people to do it for them. Whether those people will be equally successful in nurturing their communities, who knows.
But it’s definitely an option and probably only a matter of time before it happens.
Thats what they are doing
https://twitter.com/aaronp613/status/1669464567074680835