The fact that they need to work their asses to accomplish this makes me happy… Not the part of recovering control for sure.

Damage control is the least of their problems now. If things going as they are rn, by the end of the week (if more and more subs keep going dark/getting their mods kicked out) Reddit will come to a point of no return. That shit about to looney tunes sink like a mf.

Its more probably. Some will collapse as soon as the third party tools shut down, because they are basically unmoderated, but the tools and bots are so well managed that they keep shit from going downhill, that’s especially true for a lot of smaller subs.