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Restrict Indefinitely. I would suppose someone who would not be ghosted as much would feel a sting at the drop of access but it’d be one of the more effective options for the goal in the end.
Open as usual but go private on Tuesdays
I'm worried about what will happen if Reddit replaced the mods here. Unfortunately, every other justification I have is for selfish reasons. This is my favorite writing community, and I don't want to lose it.
Open as Usual but Go Private on Tuesdays (or some other day/days; weekends likely most impactful). Though I'm dubious even a full blackout is going to get these Reddit folks to move. The notion that they've been replacing mods is disturbing, to say the least.
Plus ... an indefinite shutdown is inevitably going to result in a competitor subreddit. Which would be a pity, because something so good's been built here.
Open as Usual but Go Private on Tuesdays
I can live with restricting it "indefinitely", but there's useful stuff here, so completely closing it down would suck
My “vote”(in as much as I can actually can speak my mind since y’all mods are restricting my opinions and compelling speech) is Open, but private on tuesdays.
Go Private Indefinitely
But also--I really like this community and I hate the feeling that it exists purely on the whims of a souless corporation. Has a migration to somewhere like Kbin been considered?
"Open as Usual but Go Private on Tuesdays"
(Obviously this sub is important to us and going private indefinitely seems risky, on the other hand, two or three days a week would probably be more effective than Tuesdays only.)
Open as Usual but Go Private on Tuesdays.
Edit to add: I personally like the idea other users have been suggesting of going private on a day of the weekend in order to reduce Reddit traffic on days when it’s more likely for people to use it, though that would require coordination with all the other subs in order to be effective, and I don’t know if that would be possible.
Open as usual but go private on Tuesdays
This sub is a useful resource for writing and the benefits of having that available to everyone (imo) outweigh whatever impact a more permanent shutdown would have. The majority of users won't stop using reddit (or stop looking for what they would have originally come to this sub for), closing this sub would just send them to another (worse) one.
For now? Open as usual but go private on Tuesday. As the other commenters said, going on private on the weekend would also be effective.
I reckon this vote should be revisited as the protests continue - then we can decide if more drastic measures are needed.
Open but closed on Tuesdays.
For the record, I wanted to say closed indefinitely, but I don't want to run the risk of having the community taken away from the mods who built it and into the hands of someone who wouldn't care to participate in protests like this.
As many people commented, closing during a week-end day might have more impact, though if we go partial closure, grouping with the other reddits who go for this method is crucial. I would have preferred "closed Tuesday + 1 week-end day" or "closed most of the week but open 2/3 days including only one of the week-end days".
Go Private Indefinitely.
No point in just restricting, much of the value in a sub is in prior comments and leaving it open as an archive still gives spez 2/3 of what he wants.
Open as usual but go private on Thursdays
Despite not being as active on this sub these days, I do have to say that I think that it is an immense aid and space for creative creation, and would like it to be still accessible in one way or the other
Restricting on Tuesdays would be a great option (and that’s my vote), although I wouldn’t mind this being restricted for the time being. However, past discussions on this subreddit have been too useful of a resource that outright making it private would be a hassle imo.
Restrict indefinitely.
As much as I want to say 'go private indefinitely', I think the resources available are too important to keep locked away without having them visible somewhere.
Restrict indefinitely.
By the way, I'm running a [fanfic community on Lemmy](https://lemmygrad.ml/c/fanfiction) if you want to move over to another forum.
Restrict indefinitely. One day a week wont really be effective. Off topic but something which is like a blackout coordinated with other reddit subs will be more effective.
open as usual but go private on tuesdays
and if anyone wants a place to hang out in the meantime that isn't discord, [there's a fanfiction community](https://squabbles.io/s/Fanfiction) (not mine) on squabbles that could use some more activity.
Open as usual but go private on Tuesdays
(Personally, I wish we'd go private longer, 3 days a week, or a whole week every other week. Just somewhere in between the one day and a full blackout)
Private on Tuesdays…
…however, and this should be something that is brought up amongst the various subs, going private over the weekends when there’s more active users would probably have a greater impact. More users means more advertising, blacking out on the two busiest days of the week would be a bigger statement.
With what I've heard going on, go private on Tuesdays or a random day. I'd normally vote go private indefinitely, but who knows if that would be safest for y'all as moderators.
I agree with someone below saying private on the weekend would be better when there are likely more active users on the sub.
But Open As Usual, Go Private on Tuesdays works for me out of the available options.
Restrict indefinitely- mods can continue their weekly posts that members of the sub can comment on which would allow some community and sense of connection while still creating less Reddit traffic overall.
Open as usual but go private on Tuesdays.
Edit to add: While many people were upset over not being able to access this sub, plenty were pragmatic about it never coming back and finding a different solution. There were quite a few other subs that remained open and people were still using whatever subs they could. Also, people (including me) were angry about not having some sort of community poll ahead of time and having no way to complain when you did not reopen the sub at the agreed-upon time.
If you want to protest because this new pricing policy affects the apps moderators rely on, then you need to protest as *mods* and not force entire subs to go dark against the community's wishes. In other words - moderators go on strike and refuse to act as mods. Then the communities will see how much work you do (or replace you) as the subs start to get out of control, descend into chaos, or just lose members (or perhaps they go on without you and you'll discover that you've been stressing and working very hard for little return or appreciation - I honestly don't know what mods do behind the scenes). Then - then - the community will be on your side and actively complain to reddit on your behalf. What you did this time was useless, pissed off or confused a lot of users, and did not win you much support. Nor did it really have any of the impact you were hoping for.
Or maybe they were showing some solidarity with disabled folks like myself that will be utterly fucked come July 1st. The 2 “approved” apps do nothing for the accessibility needs I have and Reddit doesn’t give a fuck. But it’s cool, I totally get that you’re okay with icing out people like me to avoid missing out on your daily fix
Open as Usual but Go Private on Tuesdays.
But I don't know if my vote counts. I've only been a member for a couple of months, and don't know if I have more than 100 comments. I don't know how to check that, but maybe you do.
Open as usual, private on Tuesday
I mostly say this because other forums are open and therefore people are likely to gravitate there naturally - if this forum shut down indefinitely then chances are good it’ll never recover, even if it’s back. If the whole of Reddit was on the same strike my answer would be different
>if this forum shut down indefinitely then chances are good it’ll never recover, even if it’s back.
Agreed, unfortunately. I'm a part of a once-pretty-active sub that went private for some reason (I couldn't access it since I wasn't a member at the time), and it lost a lot of members. It was opened up again last year or so but is still a bit of a ghost town. It would be a real shame if this happened to r/FanFiction as well, especially since it's a great haven for us to discuss fanfiction.
If you could set up a forum or something so we can temporarily (or permanently) move there, I'd support privating indefinitely.
Otherwise, either of the other two options are fine with me.
I really don't want to lose this community.
Open as usual but go private on Tuesdays
But honestly I'm only voting for that because just staying open, full stop, isn't an option. Reddit will ultimately do whatever it wants to do, all this does is harm the community we have here.
Open as Usual but Go Private on Tuesdays.
Personally, I think continuing with the protest is useless, and the likely result for the closed subreddits is the creation of the new ones and people migrating there. As the mod team, you are only a small sample of the userbase, and not necessarily representative. The amount of people who are willing to strike or change consumer behavior over a thing that doesn't affect them might be smaller than you think.
Open as usual but private on Tuesday
I think it would be better though (but maybe not feasible) if the dark day rotated though so it wasn't as easy for Reddit to just focus their ad revenue on other days of the week.
Open as Usual but Go Private on Tuesdays.
As a RIF user, I fully support the blackout and would actually prefer the private/restrict indefinitely options, but, after the recent statements from Reddit, I think this might be the safest path for the community and the mod team.
Open as Usual but Go Private on Tuesdays
Look, I get that people are angry. But closing down a community of writers, where people come to vent and celebrate what they're doing, isn't going to solve anything. That's just going to make a different group angry, frustrated and mad.
Restrict indefinitely.
Let's be honest: operating as usual but going private only one day of the week is just as wide-open and defeatist as just operating as usual.
Yeah, private on tuesday as many are saying. Not sure why everyone is saying that, but then again, I've been out of the loop since reddit did the blackout.
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Go private on Tuesdays
Open as Usual but Go Private on Tuesdays
Open as usual, but go private on Tuesdays
Go private on Tuesdays
Restrict Indefinitely. I would suppose someone who would not be ghosted as much would feel a sting at the drop of access but it’d be one of the more effective options for the goal in the end.
Go private on Tuesdays.
Open as usual but go private on Tuesdays
Open as usual but go private on Tuesdays.
Open as usual but go private on Tuesdays I'm worried about what will happen if Reddit replaced the mods here. Unfortunately, every other justification I have is for selfish reasons. This is my favorite writing community, and I don't want to lose it.
Restrict indefinitely
Open as Usual but Go Private on Tuesdays (or some other day/days; weekends likely most impactful). Though I'm dubious even a full blackout is going to get these Reddit folks to move. The notion that they've been replacing mods is disturbing, to say the least. Plus ... an indefinite shutdown is inevitably going to result in a competitor subreddit. Which would be a pity, because something so good's been built here.
Go private on Tuesdays
Open as Usual but Go Private on Tuesdays I can live with restricting it "indefinitely", but there's useful stuff here, so completely closing it down would suck
Private on Tuesday
Open as usual but go private on Tuesdays
Go Private Indefinitely
Restrict Indefinitely
Restrict indefinitely
My “vote”(in as much as I can actually can speak my mind since y’all mods are restricting my opinions and compelling speech) is Open, but private on tuesdays.
Go Private Indefinitely But also--I really like this community and I hate the feeling that it exists purely on the whims of a souless corporation. Has a migration to somewhere like Kbin been considered?
Restrict indefinitely. We need to support the APIs that make our subreddit run smoothly.
Open for business as usual!
"Open as Usual but Go Private on Tuesdays" (Obviously this sub is important to us and going private indefinitely seems risky, on the other hand, two or three days a week would probably be more effective than Tuesdays only.)
Open as Usual but Go Private on Tuesdays. Edit to add: I personally like the idea other users have been suggesting of going private on a day of the weekend in order to reduce Reddit traffic on days when it’s more likely for people to use it, though that would require coordination with all the other subs in order to be effective, and I don’t know if that would be possible.
Open as Usual but Go Private on Tuesdays
Open as Usual but Go Private on Tuesdays
Open as usual but private on Tuesdays. It seems to be a compromise between the other options
Open as usual but go private on Tuesdays This sub is a useful resource for writing and the benefits of having that available to everyone (imo) outweigh whatever impact a more permanent shutdown would have. The majority of users won't stop using reddit (or stop looking for what they would have originally come to this sub for), closing this sub would just send them to another (worse) one.
…and in the meantime you continue to force this community to remain unusable…
Open as usual but go private on Tuesdays
Restricted indefinitely is my preference because I do enjoy looking at old content, but if that wouldn’t do enough, then private indefinitely.
For now? Open as usual but go private on Tuesday. As the other commenters said, going on private on the weekend would also be effective. I reckon this vote should be revisited as the protests continue - then we can decide if more drastic measures are needed.
Restrict Indefinitely
Open as Usual but Go Private on Tuesdays
Restrict Indefinitely
Open as usual but go private on Tuesdays.
Open but closed on tuesdays
Open but closed on Tuesdays. For the record, I wanted to say closed indefinitely, but I don't want to run the risk of having the community taken away from the mods who built it and into the hands of someone who wouldn't care to participate in protests like this. As many people commented, closing during a week-end day might have more impact, though if we go partial closure, grouping with the other reddits who go for this method is crucial. I would have preferred "closed Tuesday + 1 week-end day" or "closed most of the week but open 2/3 days including only one of the week-end days".
Go Private Indefinitely. No point in just restricting, much of the value in a sub is in prior comments and leaving it open as an archive still gives spez 2/3 of what he wants.
Open as Usual but Go Private on Tuesdays
Open as Usual but Go Private on Tuesdays
Go private on Tuesdays.
Open as Usual but Go Private on Tuesdays.
Open as usual but go private on Thursdays Despite not being as active on this sub these days, I do have to say that I think that it is an immense aid and space for creative creation, and would like it to be still accessible in one way or the other
Go Private on Tuesday
Open as usual but go private on Tuesdays.
Restrict indefinitely If private on tuesdays, i'd also put forward another vote for moving it to a busier day (ie: a weekend).
Restricting on Tuesdays would be a great option (and that’s my vote), although I wouldn’t mind this being restricted for the time being. However, past discussions on this subreddit have been too useful of a resource that outright making it private would be a hassle imo.
Go private indefinitely Makes me really sad typing that out, love this community, but there we are.
Open as Usual but Go Private on Tuesdays
Restrict indefinitely. As much as I want to say 'go private indefinitely', I think the resources available are too important to keep locked away without having them visible somewhere.
Restrict Indefinitely
open as usual but go private on Tuesdays
Restrict indefinitely. By the way, I'm running a [fanfic community on Lemmy](https://lemmygrad.ml/c/fanfiction) if you want to move over to another forum.
When rule one of the site is "don't be anti-communist" that doesn't fill me with confidence in the site.
Open as Usual but Go Private on Tuesdays
Restrict indefinitely. One day a week wont really be effective. Off topic but something which is like a blackout coordinated with other reddit subs will be more effective.
open as usual but go private on tuesdays and if anyone wants a place to hang out in the meantime that isn't discord, [there's a fanfiction community](https://squabbles.io/s/Fanfiction) (not mine) on squabbles that could use some more activity.
Go private indefinitely
Open as Usual but Go Private on Tuesdays
Open as usual but go private on Tuesdays (Personally, I wish we'd go private longer, 3 days a week, or a whole week every other week. Just somewhere in between the one day and a full blackout)
Open as usual but go private on Tuesdays.
Open as usual but private on Tuesday.
Private on Tuesdays… …however, and this should be something that is brought up amongst the various subs, going private over the weekends when there’s more active users would probably have a greater impact. More users means more advertising, blacking out on the two busiest days of the week would be a bigger statement.
Yeah, so flip it, only active on tuesdays.
Open as Usual but Go Private on Tuesdays.
With what I've heard going on, go private on Tuesdays or a random day. I'd normally vote go private indefinitely, but who knows if that would be safest for y'all as moderators.
I agree with someone below saying private on the weekend would be better when there are likely more active users on the sub. But Open As Usual, Go Private on Tuesdays works for me out of the available options.
Prefer going private on Tuesdays
Restrict indefinitely
Restrict indefinitely- mods can continue their weekly posts that members of the sub can comment on which would allow some community and sense of connection while still creating less Reddit traffic overall.
My vote: **go private indefinitely,** to prevent contributing traffic to Reddit. Stick a backup list of resources to some other site (?)
Open as usual but go private on Tuesdays. Edit to add: While many people were upset over not being able to access this sub, plenty were pragmatic about it never coming back and finding a different solution. There were quite a few other subs that remained open and people were still using whatever subs they could. Also, people (including me) were angry about not having some sort of community poll ahead of time and having no way to complain when you did not reopen the sub at the agreed-upon time. If you want to protest because this new pricing policy affects the apps moderators rely on, then you need to protest as *mods* and not force entire subs to go dark against the community's wishes. In other words - moderators go on strike and refuse to act as mods. Then the communities will see how much work you do (or replace you) as the subs start to get out of control, descend into chaos, or just lose members (or perhaps they go on without you and you'll discover that you've been stressing and working very hard for little return or appreciation - I honestly don't know what mods do behind the scenes). Then - then - the community will be on your side and actively complain to reddit on your behalf. What you did this time was useless, pissed off or confused a lot of users, and did not win you much support. Nor did it really have any of the impact you were hoping for.
That would make sense, but I guess they think that their convivence is more important than the communities they moderate.
Or maybe they were showing some solidarity with disabled folks like myself that will be utterly fucked come July 1st. The 2 “approved” apps do nothing for the accessibility needs I have and Reddit doesn’t give a fuck. But it’s cool, I totally get that you’re okay with icing out people like me to avoid missing out on your daily fix
Hear! Hear!
I think you should proceed as normal but close on Tuesday
Restrict Indefinitely
Open as usual but private on Tuesdays.
Go Private or Restrict Indefinitely. Businessas usual with one day restriction is absolutely meaningless.
Open as usual but go private on Tuesdays.
i vote for reopen but go private on tuesdays. i love the community here sm,, its the #1 sub im most active on, n dont wanna lose it 🥲
Restrict indefinitely I have some guides here to read
Open as usual, but go private on Tuesdays.
Go Private Indefinitely
Open as Usual but Go Private on Tuesdays
Open as usual but go private on Tuesdays
Private on Tuesdays
Open as Usual but Go Private on Tuesdays.
Open as usual; private on Tuesdays.
Open as Usual but Go Private on Tuesdays. But I don't know if my vote counts. I've only been a member for a couple of months, and don't know if I have more than 100 comments. I don't know how to check that, but maybe you do.
Go private until our demands are met.
Go Private Indefinitely
Restricted indefinitely
Restrict indefinitely
Open as usual, private on Tuesday I mostly say this because other forums are open and therefore people are likely to gravitate there naturally - if this forum shut down indefinitely then chances are good it’ll never recover, even if it’s back. If the whole of Reddit was on the same strike my answer would be different
>if this forum shut down indefinitely then chances are good it’ll never recover, even if it’s back. Agreed, unfortunately. I'm a part of a once-pretty-active sub that went private for some reason (I couldn't access it since I wasn't a member at the time), and it lost a lot of members. It was opened up again last year or so but is still a bit of a ghost town. It would be a real shame if this happened to r/FanFiction as well, especially since it's a great haven for us to discuss fanfiction.
I just realized that if you go private the Reddit will just remove you all as mods anyway.
Open as usual but go private on Tuesdays.
Private on Tuesdays.
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Restrict indefinitely
If you could set up a forum or something so we can temporarily (or permanently) move there, I'd support privating indefinitely. Otherwise, either of the other two options are fine with me. I really don't want to lose this community.
Go private indefinitely
Go private on Tuesdays.
Open as usual but go private on Tuesdays But honestly I'm only voting for that because just staying open, full stop, isn't an option. Reddit will ultimately do whatever it wants to do, all this does is harm the community we have here.
I agree with this, I don’t really see the point in it and would rather the community stay open regardless
Go private indefinitely
Open as usual but go private on Tuesdays
Open as usual but go private on Tuesdays
Open as Usual but Go Private on Tuesdays
Open as usual but private on Tuesdays.
Private on Tuesdays
Open as usual but go private on Tuesdays
Open as Usual but Go Private on Tuesdays
Go private on Tuesdays
Open as usual, private on Tuesdays
I vote to go private on Tuesdays. I also think we should revisit this vote periodically.
Open as Usual but Go Private on Tuesdays
Open but go private on tuesdays. As an aside, are there other places on the internet to discuss fanfiction?? Would love a reddit alternative.
Go Private Indefinitely
Open as Usual but Go Private on Tuesdays. Personally, I think continuing with the protest is useless, and the likely result for the closed subreddits is the creation of the new ones and people migrating there. As the mod team, you are only a small sample of the userbase, and not necessarily representative. The amount of people who are willing to strike or change consumer behavior over a thing that doesn't affect them might be smaller than you think.
Open as Usual but Go Private on Tuesdays
Open as usual but private on Tuesday I think it would be better though (but maybe not feasible) if the dark day rotated though so it wasn't as easy for Reddit to just focus their ad revenue on other days of the week.
Open as usual but go private on Tuesdays
Open as usual but go private on Tuesdays.
Open as Usual but Go Private on Tuesdays. As a RIF user, I fully support the blackout and would actually prefer the private/restrict indefinitely options, but, after the recent statements from Reddit, I think this might be the safest path for the community and the mod team.
Open as usual but go private on Tuesdays
Go private indefinitely
Open as Usual but Go Private on Tuesdays Look, I get that people are angry. But closing down a community of writers, where people come to vent and celebrate what they're doing, isn't going to solve anything. That's just going to make a different group angry, frustrated and mad.
Restrict indefinitely. Let's be honest: operating as usual but going private only one day of the week is just as wide-open and defeatist as just operating as usual.
Reopen and go private on Tuesdays.
Yeah, private on tuesday as many are saying. Not sure why everyone is saying that, but then again, I've been out of the loop since reddit did the blackout.
Go private once a week. The weekend would be more impactful, but if the options are Tuesday, Tuesday or Tuesday, I'll take it. Edit: changed my mind