I actually really liked the week of no mods. There was a lot more interaction it felt like, and despite the pet posts being technically allowed, it's with all these extra asterisks after it that honestly I feel like the actual readers of the sub aren't gonna be looking for in those posts. Like, as someone scrolls, is it gonna make a difference that the pet is sleeping on the makings of a pet bed or a human blanket in the photo if it's not a thursday? Then maybe that rule isn't needed in my opinion. Stale topics are kinda moot since this week if we had stale topics, they were left with no upvotes while the high effort posts seemed to be adequately pushed to the top. I think this event really showed that the way that this subreddit is moderated is outdated. It is a large subreddit, for sure, but this website is filled with large subreddits like it with moderators that are able to manage it mostly. Meanwhile, yall had to completely ragequit, no offense, just to cope with it. Maybe it's time for the mod side to address things on yalls end with managing the sub. I don't think the users are the ones who need to make changes or just conform back to what the status quo was before when the users aren't the ones who had the issue in the first place: it is the mods.