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I do hope a good chunk of mods extend the blackouts indefinitely.
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Why shouldn't the moderators have that power? They are the ones maintaining the subreddits they control. If the users don't like them having that power, they are free to move to a different subreddit with moderators they agree with. Nothing is stopping them.
Do MODs lose money during blackout. If no, what's the incentive to bring them back quickly?
> I am sorry to say this, but please be mindful of wearing Reddit gear in public. Some folks are really upset, and we don’t want you to be the object of their frustrations. LoL
I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss, external popularity can paint a target on your back for 0.000x% of people (which, of course is infinitesimal but non-zero). I myself have been harrassed for wearing local game studio garb because our games are "violent" and we have "problems with violence" in the city. The game was a vampire fantasy battle royale, so not exactly a realistic depiction of gun crime- people who feel vi…
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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...
The irony of organizing a blackout to teach Reddit a lesson while organizing it on a subreddit.
Reddit gets almost zero revenue from the sub organizing it.
People aren't protesting Reddit in general, but a policy of reddit.
I do hope a good chunk of mods extend the blackouts indefinitely.
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After all, the most vocal are by the users of the 3P apps and they vastly outnumber the mods.
> I am sorry to say this, but please be mindful of wearing Reddit gear in public. Some folks are really upset, and we don’t want you to be the object of their frustrations. LoL
I 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
It's getting the network effect that's difficult. And as much as we nerds want to believe, the best technical solution isn't always what wins.
Before 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/desir…
I'm not so sure about that. I would be very surprised if there was a high % of redditors that know / care about the mods or mod system. This could be the cynic in me but I bet he could eject all the mods tomorrow, replace them with more faceless accounts, and the vast majority of reddit's userbase would not see a difference.
Those that have been around the site for a while would notice and feel the change and not be happy about it, but we're most likely talking about a very small single-digit % of the userbase.
Unbelievable - but screw you reddit. Youtube works fine, and united24 is still there.
Such a shame as I was really getting into reddit - I thought it was pretty cool.