Like many other subreddits, r/Finland is allowing its users to vote for whether or not they should a) reopen as normal, b) remain closed, or c) remain in protest mode.
However, the admins just sent them a nastygram essentially saying that’s not allowed:
Your community sees well over 2 million unique visitors each month. Allowing a small segment of those users to make a decision for a community forever does not make sense. There are a huge number of people that use this space now and who will in the future
Polling to close is not a viable option that will return a result that resolves this situation
However, mods can also see traffic stats, which show them as closer to 20k uniques per month. My guess is that this is a copy/pasted message and a whole bunch of subreddits are getting this notice.
I thought this was a particularly nasty new development, since up until now the excuse has been that we can’t let these Landed Gentry dictate the state of our subreddits, but now they’re explicitly saying that they also don’t care about how the users of a subreddit vote either.
Reddit could probably easily just restore the subreddit after they do so and give the subreddit to mods that will do what they want.
They are restoring posts to my subreddit that have been removed, but they are doing it in a way that makes it clear they have no idea why the mod crew with decades of professional experience and multiple university degrees was removing or approving posts before the blackout. Sure, the mod accounts might get banned from reddit, but the subreddits are dead without the mods, and they won’t find anyone to work for free.