Hello, r/GoForGold, thank you so much for your patience. By now, I'm sure you've heard about the protests surrounding Reddit's price increase with regards to their API. I won't bore you with more of that.

In the past, we've held annual "Community Queries" to check in with the community as it grows, adapts, changes, and evolves. r/GoForGold has not remained a stagnant community and, with growth, comes a need to adapt in the way the community is maintained.

I have personally always held the belief that we, as Moderators, are here to serve the community. No one Moderator was ever more important than the other, no member given more power or authority, no changes made without a discussion surrounding it. We've always acted in the way we felt would benefit the community as a whole. We developed a path to bring on people interested to become Moderators; we categorized and created awards ("vanity awards" was a term we coined before it was used anywhere else); we've spent our own money to keep the community engaged; we built the old.reddit version from scratch, many of us have been here since the creation of this sub nearly 10 years ago; members of our team have gone on to do incredible things for this very site. At the end of the day, though, we're all volunteers; users just like you, that loved this sub enough to put in hours of unpaid work each week and sometimes making unpopular decisions.

And now we find ourselves at a crossroads; looking at a version of Reddit that we don't recognize. We have received the canned response to the protests from Reddit themselves, and the message is loud and clear: get in line or get out.

So this brings us here.

What do you want?

This isn't a simple "upvote which response you like," the situation is nuanced, we appreciate that. We want to hear from the users this will affect most, you. Reddit may be turning a blind eye to a vocal minority of its user base, breaking its own first rule to remember the human, but we want to make sure we're acting in accordance with the wishes of the community in mind. These are questions to spur conversation, and we're not looking for any answer but your honest (and respectful) one.

• How has the recent API decision affected your Reddit consumption?
• Do you foresee more, less, or the same activity in the near future?
• How would you prefer r/GoForGold moves forward from here?
• If we were to implement changes in the way the community primarily operates, how would you feel? For instance, if we were to move to only the Mods giving out awards and hosting Mod challenges for the foreseeable future?

We are, after all, here to serve you. Twelve comments will receive a Mod Platinum at random. Please abide by the rules of the sub.