Reddit has told r/pics mods to open the sub, and to be the sub their users want it to be. So they ran a user poll. By overwhelming mandate, r/pics is now a sub for pics of John Oliver looking sexy. https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/14b2a6q/poll_decide_on_the_future_of_rpics/
Reddit is used to brawls between its 57 million daily users. Now its keyboard warriors are directing their ire at its CEO, Steve Huffman. Thousands of moderators overseeing the site’s so-called subreddits are on strike. It’s a wrinkle in Reddit’s plan to go public, and a sign that plan is premature.
Which is why /u/jailbaitlover I mean /u/spez is sending the message that they would gladly give total power to whatever mod crosses the picket line so they can boot the rest....