How Long Would You Spend Moderating?

The majority of subreddits are currently only private for 48 hours but more and more are setting themselves dark indefinitely as part of the protest. It's hard to say exactly what could happen but Dig did this almost very very similar type of thing to this about 10 years ago and people left Dig and joined Reddit so an exodus has happened before. We have a lot of user created tools in their scripts that will identify and flag up any like suspicious activity or things that we have like heavily rely on to streamline the moderation process. Without that it would be a lot more of a hassle which was a large motivation for why a many moderators are unhappy with the current API changes.