As I discussed in the Random thread a few days ago, I made the /r/DolphinEmulator subreddit nearly a decade ago after another user here noticed it didn't exist yet. My intention was to hand it over to the Dolphin team, but they weren't keen, so I've remained the most senior moderator. Ten years on, it's grown to eighty thousand subscribers (very few of which actually do anything), and me and the other moderator decided to set it to private mode as part of the Reddit API protest. The outcome of that is that Reddit's shown they're hostile to their volunteer moderators, and we really can't be bothered with it any more. A couple of days ago I ran a poll on whether to continue the protest, and was surprised to find that among the tiny fraction of people who cared enough to vote, reopening as normal was overwhelmingly unpopular. See https://www.reddit.com/r/DolphinEmulator..._the_vote/.
So this leaves me with a bunch of users wanting different things. If I can hand the subreddit over to the Dolphin team to do as they see fit, that ignores the three quarters of people who didn't want that. If I put it back into private mode (currently it's in restricted mode, so people can see posts, but not respond or post their own, which means the corpus of resolved support threads are still accessible from Google, but in private mode, that wouldn't be the case), then I expect that within a couple of weeks, Reddit staff will remove me as a moderator, and either leave it unmoderated (and therefore locked so no one can post, just as it is now, or assign some random schmuck. That's likely to end up with the subreddit in a mess that's a lot less attractive for the Dolphin team to commandeer. Currently, there's a no-piracy rule that's been well-enforced, so it should be squeaky clean from a litigious-Nintendo standpoint. There's the option of keeping it restricted, but still posting links to Dolphin blog posts
as and when they appear, but I suspect none will do so until after we're booted.
Anyone here have thoughts?
So this leaves me with a bunch of users wanting different things. If I can hand the subreddit over to the Dolphin team to do as they see fit, that ignores the three quarters of people who didn't want that. If I put it back into private mode (currently it's in restricted mode, so people can see posts, but not respond or post their own, which means the corpus of resolved support threads are still accessible from Google, but in private mode, that wouldn't be the case), then I expect that within a couple of weeks, Reddit staff will remove me as a moderator, and either leave it unmoderated (and therefore locked so no one can post, just as it is now, or assign some random schmuck. That's likely to end up with the subreddit in a mess that's a lot less attractive for the Dolphin team to commandeer. Currently, there's a no-piracy rule that's been well-enforced, so it should be squeaky clean from a litigious-Nintendo standpoint. There's the option of keeping it restricted, but still posting links to Dolphin blog posts
as and when they appear, but I suspect none will do so until after we're booted.
Anyone here have thoughts?
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CPU: AMD Ryzen 5900X
RAM: 48GB
GPU: Radeon 7800 XT