How American of them. Install your own leaders when you don’t like what they’re doing with their self-governed community

If there are mods here who are willing to work towards reopening this community, we are willing to work with you to process a Top Mod Removal request or reorder the mod team to achieve this goal if mods higher up the list are hindering reopening.

Translation: please snitch and we’ll give you control of the subreddit. We don’t have enough staff to moderate all the subreddits ourselves.

/r/pics polled their users: stay closed, or only allow pics of John Oliver looking sexy?

They chose the latter.