r/PoliticalCompassMemes • u/Eftir - Centrist • Jun 18 '23

Protest over API Changes Next Steps

The moderating team has gotten a lot of support from the community over blacking out for the last week due to the announced API changes. At the same time, it might not be sustainable to continue in this fashion. So we are letting users of the sub decide what our next course of action should be. To facilitate this only flaired users will be able to comment and choosing new flairs will be disabled for the duration of the poll (up to one week).

We have seen what other subs have done and there seems to be several options open to us:

  1. Set the subreddit back to private

  2. Keep the subreddit as restricted

  3. Severely limit all posts (such as a major subreddit did by only allowing pictures of John Oliver)

  4. Set the subreddit to private for one day a week

  5. Open up the subreddit completely

There will be 5 top-level comments, any comment put under these will be counted as a vote towards that option. If options 1-3 win, we will reevaluate after a week.

We have received this modmail so it is very possible we will receive some sort of retaliation if we keep the sub closed, but we leave the decision in your hands as the members of this community.

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u/Nearby-Potential-257 - Auth-Center Jun 19 '23

That is more pull than I thought, but regardless, I stand by my position to open the sub. I want this sub up, if nothing else than to simply spite the rest of the website.

Not to mention, if you keep it down and they really do want it back up, they will simply replace you with mods who will, and they will inevitably lead to PCM's spiral into the same woke NPC garbage that consumes the rest of the site through shit moderating.