The subreddit r/steam, about the digital game storefront, received as many other subreddits a notice to open the community again, or else the mods would be replaced by those who abide.
The mods followed suit posting the following automod message under every new post:
As ya'll likely know, we've been dark to support the blackout against reddit's antagonistic behavior towards its own userbase. The admins sent us a message today saying we must open or get removed, so here we are.
For those of you browsing this subreddit on non-official apps (Reddit is Fun, Apollo, Sync, Boost, etc), they will break on July 1st due to reddit's new policies. We're opening back up but will leave permanent stickies in the subreddit and threads to keep folks in the know.
Our Discord [contains link to https://discord.gg/steam] server is active, don't forget to check it out.
Good luck and god speed.
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On visit, you quickly notice there is a community wide effort to focus on the literal topic of the given name and post about vapors, steam trains, and kitchen appliances. While posts about the gaming platform get downvoted.
Keep in mind, this is being done by the users. The sticky post actually contains a moderator being against this reaction, claiming if they keep "maliciously complying" Reddit will punish them.
So once again, the users are actually onboard - the mods are scared of losing their fake title. And I say that as a previous Reddit moderator that loved the community I had helped grow. I even hosted Reddit Talks, one of their failed experiments.
Is that so? Looks to me this moderator is in on it. Or which post do you refer to?
I mean, looks like no matter what the current mods do, Reddit is determined to silence the organic community-driven protest. Eventually mods will have to play ball or be replaced, but this current attitude of "look admins, we're doing what you want, it's the users who are not" delays that inevitability in a way that does in fact support the community users in their desire to protest. All the mods quitting right now in anger would just be replaced with new boot licking mods who would ban these protest posts immediately.
I don't think there's any way for the community to win in the long run, but the current mods half-ass playing ball is allowing the protest to continue for now
We will see how it will turn out. This is the full context of the screenshot for those interested. https://www.reddit.com/r/Steam/comments/14bvwe1/rsteam_and_reddits_new_policies/johwd3x/?context=10000