Hi,

For full transparency here is the message from /u/ModCodeofConduct

that some of you might have already seen

Hi everyone,

We are aware that you have chosen to close your community at this time. We are reaching out to find out if any moderators currently on the mod team would be willing to take steps to reopen the community. Subreddits exist for the benefit of the community of users who come to them for support and belonging and in the end, moderators are stewards of these spaces and in a position of trust. Your users rely on your community for information, support, entertainment, and finding connection with others who have similar interests. The ability to find and make these connections is incredibly important to many people and ensuring that active communities are able to remain stable and active (and open) is very important.

Our goal here is to work with the existing mod team to find a path forward and make sure your subreddit is usable for the community which makes its home here. If you are not able or willing to reopen and maintain the community please let us know.

You can search the other major subreddits for the interaction it is mainly a copypasta but it does make a point, the community should have the say in this and we never disagreed!

We will rely on the users, as we always did, for their support and guidance informing our decision and a new direction for the sub which I am sure will leave most of you thrilled! we will henceforth open a poll to decide what should be the decision both /r/physics and /r/askphysics should take

• 1 Either both subs will only be dedicated to only pictures of John Oliver dressed as a scientist or showing scientific interest.
• 2 Both subs will be fully open.

Note that we will abide by the decision of the community.

We will update you further on that decision.

Also drop by our discord for other answers and general discussions, we are still questioning where to go, there is a squabbles, I am leaving that here.

You are all independent actors, just vote and do what you think is right.

https://discord.gg/rmbGTBXZYj

https://squabbles.io/s/physics

https://squabbles.io/s/askphysics

/u/wodashit

on behalf of /r/physics and /r/askphysics

/u/fauster I hope you will agree with this post, since you never really moderated neither /r/physics back in the day or /r/askphysics now I guess you will accept the will of the community.