Yup, agreed. On my sub, most people agree with the blackout. But there's a huge swell of people who are 100% on his side, and he's done a great job of pitting users against mods and framing mods as power-hungry jerks who are anti-democracy (in order to distract from the fact that he makes decisions with no accountability).

I wonder what the larger subreddits would look like if they were unmoderated. Maybe that would be a better way for mods to protest at this point.

> framing mods as power-hungry jerks who are anti-democracy

He’s not wrong. There’s something about giving community power to people with the free time and willingness to do that work for free.

And he’s not totally wrong in my opinion. Some of the subreddits i often browse (regional ones) are often moderated in a questionable way. But the mods have been in there for literally more than a decade, which makes them similar to landed gentry.