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Re: Reddark: Website to watch subreddits going dark

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Post by Cthulhu_ »

capybara_2020 wrote: post #63
deminature wrote: post #3

Pissing off the people doing thankless free labor to keep your subreddits moderated and site functional seems like a poor choice. This is going to be quite an event when it kicks off Monday.

It looks like they might be prepared for that already in some ways. Reddit used to be a place where you go for relatively unbiased opinions. Some mods and subreddits were better than the rest, some worse. But atleast there was an illusion of being unbiased. Mods to for brand/product subreddits atleast officially were not linked to the company. But that is no more the case, just realized a few weeks back that /r/midjo…

Nah that's not uncommon, plenty of brands will have a social media presence, including Reddit; it's just that (from my perspective), the really commercial ones never gained much traction and didn't rise to the top anywhere.

Reddit marketing is done best if it looks grassroots.

Re: Reddark: Website to watch subreddits going dark

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Post by circuit10 »

dataengineer56 wrote: post #92
zarzavat wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because that’s how Reddit is designed, and that’s how forums worked before Reddit. If you don’t like the way a subreddit is run then you can make another one, and if you are sufficiently better then people will switch. Reddit isn’t stack exchange. It’s more like running an open source project. The problem is that there’s this hostile corporation that sometimes tries to kill their own product every few years overseein…

> If you don’t like the way a subreddit is run then you can make another one, and if you are sufficiently better then people will switch That's much easier said than done - say you don't like the moderation or content of /r/gaming, how are you going to spread the word about your new subreddit? It won't have as good a name as /r/gaming, it's not a default sub so it's more difficult to find, and you might find that men…

You could also apply this for thinking to domain names and usernames on most sites. I’m not sure if I agree or not, but the same system exists there too if owning names by being the first to claim them

Re: Reddark: Website to watch subreddits going dark

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Post by Panzer04 »

Tainnor wrote: post #96
miroljub wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You are writing this using the best Reddit replacement. If HN had a subforum feature and an ability to embed pictures or videos in posts, or some kind of markdown light syntax, Reddit usage would die for me.

reasons why HN doesn't work as a reddit replacement: - It has no subforums - Almost everyone here is in IT, other topics only get discussed when they are interesting to IT people. On reddit, you can talk to historians, mathematicians, language enthusiasts, fans of your favourite series, etc. - HN usability on mobile is... yeah - HN is text only, that's already difficult for programming, but would make talking about e…

What’s the problem with HN mobile?

Re: Reddark: Website to watch subreddits going dark

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Post by nkrisc »

hn_thrwn wrote: post #12
deminature wrote: post #3

Pissing off the people doing thankless free labor to keep your subreddits moderated and site functional seems like a poor choice. This is going to be quite an event when it kicks off Monday.

[flagged]

Moderators are the only reason I use Reddit. Even then too many subs are just filled with meme garbage and other recycled jokes/spam.

Re: Reddark: Website to watch subreddits going dark

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Post by Mindwipe »

jmorenoamor wrote: post #47

Reddit can stand a 48h blackout without a problem. Anything but a permanent blackout is just peanuts to them.

A single blackout does not preclude further actions.

Reddit's adminstration team seem extremely rattled for something they can stand without a problem.

Re: Reddark: Website to watch subreddits going dark

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Post by iLoveOncall »

elpocko wrote: post #84

Remove mods from the biggest subs, replace them with paid employees. Just for a while, until this blows over and new volunteers show up. Or, since you just need one mod in every sub to keep the others in line, replace the top mod. With a script.

This is obviously what will happen in the long term, moderation will switch to a Facebook-like model.

It's a good thing, most moderators are bad.

Re: Reddark: Website to watch subreddits going dark

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Post by rvz »

This is another gigantic nothing. Equivalent to ants standing together to protect their ant hill from destruction against the might of pest control and the land owner.

While Reddit is a dumpster fire, it is still a business and you never owned the 'subreddit' and it is not yours either and its API is subject to price rises. This sort of risk should not be underestimated and it was only a matter of time that the API was going to be paid. Like Twitter, it has now happened to Reddit.

Going dark for 1 day will do nothing to Reddit and it will be just business as usual.

Re: Reddark: Website to watch subreddits going dark

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Post by layer8 »

pb7 wrote: post #103
layer8 wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

According to the current count, less than 2% of subreddits are going dark.

Less than 2% of subreddits but what percentage of total activity?

That doesn’t matter for the question of whether users will fall back to visiting other subreddits.
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