Reddit, a community that relies on volunteer moderation to ensure a safe and enjoyable experience for users, has now taken to threatening those very volunteers. During recent protests against API changes, thousands of subreddits led by tens of thousands of volunteer moderators, blacked out their communities. Despite saying that the company does, in fact, “respect the community’s right to protest,” Reddit has done an apparent U-turn by stating that “if a moderator team unanimously decides to stop moderating, [Reddit administrators] will invite new, act