The Reddit blackout will continue
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The Reddit blackout will continue
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#2I dislike that I have to make an effort to entertain myself during downtimes, but this is an excellent exercise for a future where reddit execs might just have made the site unusable for me.
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#3Organizing the continued blackout on Reddit is a bad look. I know it's not their aim, but it seems like "users should be prevented from using reddit, but us mods are exempt."
That said, short of preemptively having coordinated something, I don't know where else they'd organize. Particularly as I'm unaware of any real "leaders" to this movement.
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#4It's kinda dumb to go private as a protest, because visiting the home page as a lurker, there's no indication that anything is happening - just a different mix of subreddits hitting the default feed
It's a little quieter, I kinda like it.
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#5Organizing the continued blackout on Reddit is a bad look. I know it's not their aim, but it seems like "users should be prevented from using reddit, but us mods are exempt." That said, short of preemptively having coordinated something, I don't know where else they'd organize. Particularly as I'm unaware of any real "leaders" to this movement.
What are you talking about? How are the mods exempt from the blackout? You think all community mods can see all the private subreddits?
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#6This will fail. No one really cares about subreddit ABC and some will even be glad they can't compulsively look at it.
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#7Love this. I wish we saw reactions like this during the various Facebook scandals.
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#8Can anyone explain how much pressure and where it comes from for the “raise revenue at all costs” pre-IPO. Is it common for other companies to shoot themselves in the foot by layoffs and policy changes that alienate users? Just feels like no one was smart enough to say “we can try and raise revenue by doing this, but we could lose everything” - maybe companies just constantly forget how defiant and fickle the internet can be.
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#9Organizing the continued blackout on Reddit is a bad look. I know it's not their aim, but it seems like "users should be prevented from using reddit, but us mods are exempt." That said, short of preemptively having coordinated something, I don't know where else they'd organize. Particularly as I'm unaware of any real "leaders" to this movement.
Yea, definitely more of a mod revolt than a user revolt
I feel like a lot of users have had it up to here with mod abuse too, maybe smaller subreddits with less automation would be preferable to mega reddits with bots that auto-ban you for being new to the community
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#10This will fail. No one really cares about subreddit ABC and some will even be glad they can't compulsively look at it.
To downvoters - I didn't say it should fail, simply that it will. Reddit might fail as well.