I do hope a good chunk of mods extend the blackouts indefinitely.
Reddit CEO tells employees that subreddit blackout ‘will pass’
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#12I went to Reddit, the page was black, so I just went somewhere else. I still don't see how this is going to motivate anyone to do anything.
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#13Before the blackout, many subreddits hinted at extending the blackout indefinitely if Reddit is being adversarial. This seems adversarial.
Extending the blackout indefinitely has now become a coordinated action via /r/ModCoord (which is the also the source of the list of blacked out subreddits that people are using), with an optional "solidarity mode" that involves blacking out one day a week in perpetuity (which they're calling "Touch Grass Tuesdays"): https://old.reddit.com/r/ModCoord/comments/148ks6u/indefinit...
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#14See. They don't care at all. Just another day of internet outrage.
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#15As I predicted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36192312#36192983 they thing it's a blip on the radar and will soon pass and everybody would just consent to the new reality. The thought of their way not being the right way is not being considered and there would be no changes. They plan to just wait it out and count on redditors to fold and endure what they must. We'll see if they are right.
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#16Before the blackout, many subreddits hinted at extending the blackout indefinitely if Reddit is being adversarial. This seems adversarial.
From Reddit's perspective overall this is a terrible idea, but from Huffman's perspective it's purely rational. If he has to walk this back it's probably not compatible with his continued tenure after all, the question of why this was done so hastily and rudely would inevitably undermine his leadership. If he just barrels ahead though, and prays that the addictions of mods and users are greater than their pride/desire to have a functional site, then he can possibly survive.
It's not as though there's a third choice, he can't realistically get rid of the mods and replace them, then expect that to not blow up in his face. He can't walk this back, and he's doubled down on libeling the dev of Apollo for example. "Stay the course and hope everyone just gets over it" is his best option, having already sunk into the quicksand.
IMO of course.
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#17I think he went about this completely in the wrong way and comes off as arrogant but on this I agree. Many subs that didn’t go dark still seem to have plenty of participants and people need their digital crack. I don’t see this being a digg moment for Reddit.
The problem isn't that no one can create a Reddit clone, the problem is that no one can scale like Reddit and do it at continuous loss just to be dominant
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#18I don't understand why reddit didn't respond to the initial criticism by decreasing the pricing/demands and just slowly implementing what they want over time. Doing it all at once seemed like a silly move.
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#20Do MODs lose money during blackout. If no, what's the incentive to bring them back quickly?