Reddit digs deeper hole in battle against moderator protests

Reddit has escalated its war with moderators, sending them notices explaining that "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", begging them to re-open communities turned private. In response, moderators have been marking their communities as NSFW (preventing Reddit from showing ads) or encouraging users to shitpost, like r/melbourne for example, where you can only post things about Melbourne in Florida, not Victoria. There's some noise around Reddit replacing moderators in some of the bigger communities, but nothing concrete yet. Feels like only a matter of time.