“We deeply respect the role moderators play in their communities, and we don’t use admin ability to override that unless it is absolutely necessary,” he added. “We have some ideas about features to add,” Goodman wrote, “such as making it easier to find subreddits, making the site friendlier for new users, and allowing moderators to make decisions more democratically. Many redditors suspected the changes are a response to the r/jailbait controversy and similar trouble at other big sections of the site. The section will immediately be banned again if any of the troublesome mods are let back in, violentacrez told the Daily Dot.Įarlier today Reddit admin Max Goodman hinted at changes to the site’s moderation structure in a post on the site’s official blog. Admins promptly un-banned the section - with a caveat. In a deal with Reddit staff, r/jailbait’s creator, violentacrez, removed those moderators on Wednesday morning. Social news site Reddit’s controversial teen pictures section, r/jailbait, quietly reopened this week after Reddit admins shut it down two weeks ago citing “out of control” moderators.
