with the most active thread every week being the weekly trans thread featured on the front page, I think it'll be easier now to get queer people unsure about the scary tankie site to make an account

reddit has a system that declares mods as active and inactive (if you're a mod you can see who is active and not in the mod list), if reddit suspends the last remaining active mod on a subreddit, it sometimes will also ban the subreddit. So your subreddit can be banned for "unmoderated" just because it was a low traffic sub that didn't need moderation. No idea if this applies to the subreddit this post is about.

Also, if you're an inactive top mod, you might not be allowed to add/remove mods (not sure if this applies when there are no active mods).

Ya they'll come up with any reason they want. It's their product, they'll do what they wish.

Oh they usually have a real reason, they just don't want to say what it is because that reason is what you'd expect from

It's an active sub (last I checked which was a while ago), so if they had any good faith about this being about it being unmoderated then they would have posted a sticky asking for new mods as they have done in the past. So I agree. It's likely coming.

considering a ban

Here's the admins claiming it was accidental:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ModSupport/comments/1e6b53c/recent_wave_of_subreddits_incorrectly_being/

They're supposed to be against minors on there, and unaddressed reports could be the justification.

actually, seems to be a widespread ban

Ever since the API crackdown thing especially, they've going through and quietly banning all kinds of subs that might scare advertisers, or that they just don't like for political reasons. The venn diagram for those two things has a lot of overlap of course. They've been killing off small leftist subs (as we know, they killed off the bigger ones a while back now), piracy subs, porn subs (no tears shed from me about that, though I expect it will probably end up hurting sex workers too like that sort of thing always does) etc. I think r/piracy is so big that there would be enough backlash which makes reddit reluctant to axe it, but I expect it will be on the block too before much longer. But for example, r/fmovies was banned last month.

Anyway, I expect the ban on r/TransDIY is that part of the venn diagram that it scares advertisers and is something reddit is politically in opposition to. Like What_Religion_R_They said, the reasoning and justification they'll use is bullshit about it being potentially harmful to minors.

They already had an IPO, those who got to pre-buy stocks walked away with quite some nice cash

If the ban gets miraclereversed we def need to.

But there are too many tankies here

Freaking Nazified A.I. tools.

You have to wait a month for that apparently