What's the biggest high activity subreddit you've ever seen sold?

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What's the biggest subreddit you've ever seen sold?

Simple question.

Not talking about the spammed ones either. The legitimate ones that have a real audience and following.
 
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The biggest high-activity subreddit that was famously "sold" (or monetized from within) is r/SkincareAddiction.

Back in 2015, when the sub had over a million active users, the founder and top mods secretly redirected the entire community's traffic and wiki resources to their own self-monetized blog, using Amazon affiliate links and charging brands hundreds of dollars for product recommendations. Once users found out and provided proof, the Reddit admins intervened, banned the offending mods, and banned their website from the platform.

The "Great SCA Migration of 2015" (reddit post here)

They didnt' sell the subreddit though, they just went hard monetizing it technically,

But the problem was they started censoring reviews, limiting who could post product, and shady stuff like that

Supposedly they removed the moderation team that was offending but left a bunch of them there that were 'vetted' lol

I could find no blog posts on this topic meaning it's now been washed away beyond a few comments on reddit

Doesn't sound like anybody was booted to me.
 
I don’t know if anything was sold but when Wallstrretbets hit the headlines a few years ago there was a battle to be in charge of the subreddit by 2 groups of mods.

The original group had been lazy and not done anything to the sub in years but when it got really popular they suddenly tried to claim it back from the group that had been building it and putting in the work.
 
The biggest high-activity subreddit that was famously "sold" (or monetized from within) is r/SkincareAddiction.

Back in 2015, when the sub had over a million active users, the founder and top mods secretly redirected the entire community's traffic and wiki resources to their own self-monetized blog, using Amazon affiliate links and charging brands hundreds of dollars for product recommendations. Once users found out and provided proof, the Reddit admins intervened, banned the offending mods, and banned their website from the platform.

I don’t know if anything was sold but when Wallstrretbets hit the headlines a few years ago there was a battle to be in charge of the subreddit by 2 groups of mods.

The original group had been lazy and not done anything to the sub in years but when it got really popular they suddenly tried to claim it back from the group that had been building it and putting in the work.

Either of you ever wonder who were the 'mods' that moved as a unit on these projects like this?

The Gatekeepers. I always mentions this to people.

If you're not eating with the GateKeeprs you can't reach the top of the front page anymore.

Legitimate mega subreddits are never sold openly, but rather traded secretly via top mod accounts for tens of thousands of dollars before getting totally wiped by Reddit admins.

They dont transfer ownership of accounts?
 
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