We have no idea what just happened, but we'll update this post when we find out. Please don't spam the modqueue with posts about this or you'll get us banned for real lol.
edit: from Reddit Admin sodypop
Yikes, so this is how robots take over the world....
It looks like something went terribly, terribly wrong, but we've reinstated all the affected subreddits. Our apologies for the scare, and all the troubles this caused!
edit 2: For those of you who are out of the loop, the tl;dr is that /r/Android (and a few other subs) were banned for "spam" for about half an hour.
Several large subs were banned, I'm currently in contact with the admins and everything seems to be getting resolved.
Edit: admins have said it was a rogue bot that went awry on their end.
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I hereby proclaim myself interim head moderator of r/android
I hereby proclaim myself interim assistant head moderator of r/android
Reddit is an orange in disguise!
Busted them, bring the juicers!
I am disappointed there's no new r/modgifs about this.
As a moderator of /r/AndroidCirclejerk, I approve this message. (I also neglect that sub as badly as Lord Duarte neglects us :( )
Damn I haven't seen a Duarte meme in months
i thought i misspelled android and was in some other sub for a sec
Man I thought I got banned from the sub out of the blue lol
All the people requesting modship of the "banned" subs within minutes are vultures...
...Damn.
Hold up I'll get the sub banned for spam again
Apollo sees through your lies!
Seems to have been a bigger issue going by threads on /r/redditrequest
Edit: I think we should all support /u/RandomCheeseCake in their request
For a brief moment after the ban is reverted, the "Online" count was shown as "[object Object]"
The whole r/android sub was banned briefly, along with a number of other subs
Well it was a rough few minutes but we managed to scrape by.
r/apple wasn't banned, it's a conspiracy! /s
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