A while ago (over a week ago) we got a threat from the admins to open the sub. Since it's been quite a while, we suspect the admins don't have any actual intention to act on this threat on a small sub like ours. However, we're also beginning to suspect that keeping the sub closed at this point has a greater negative effect on you all than on the admins.

So, while we'd like to continue the protest, we're reopening the sub for now. While this thread goes on it'll be in restricted mode. This thread is for posting suggestions for what we oughta do to keep protesting. Some of the more obvious options are:

1. Go private again, or alternatively stay restricted. We're not super keen on this because we, again, think at this point it's more harmful to you all than to the admins, but ultimately it's your choice.

2. Mark the sub NSFW. The two disadvantages of this is that as a sub that actually was using NSFW tags this takes away useful information, and that there's some chance the admins will get involved to stop us. (But even so, this is our personal favorite option on the mod team.)

3. Posting restrictions, like the John Oliver rule for /r/pics or the egg rule for /r/egg_irl. We're not super keen on this as mods because we don't really think it's an effective means of protest.

It's been pointed out to us via modmail that the UK will soon require age verification for 18+ content, and that if we keep the sub NSFW this law could potentially mean that users won't be able to access this sub.

To be clear: this is a bad law. The government of the UK is bad for passing it, and also bad for many other reasons. If you live in the UK I'd encourage you to put maximum possible pressure on MPs and the government to generally be less shit, and to not vote for any party that is ashamed of your membership in it.

However, the risk of trans people not being able to access this sub outweighs any possible ad revenue we could be denying reddit from still being NSFW at this point, so we're un-marking the sub NSFW.