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Reddit Threatens to Remove Moderators from Subreddits Continuing Blackouts
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Re: Reddit Threatens to Remove Moderators from Subreddits Continuing Blackouts
#12Ah, the rare triple down.
Funnily enough, the whole thing was posted because a mod of a dead-ish sub (last post was a week ago, 9 posts including one about shutting down in the last month) was complaining that it was "clearly harming the community."
Re: Reddit Threatens to Remove Moderators from Subreddits Continuing Blackouts
#13Another day and another nail in another awesome online community that has terrible leadership. Where will the communities move to? What new areas of the Internet will be created?
https://kbin.social is a great alternative from what I can see. https://kbin.social/m/apple is already thriving, as is https://kbin.social/m/programming
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#14Another day and another nail in another awesome online community that has terrible leadership. Where will the communities move to? What new areas of the Internet will be created?
Discord, where everything will be siloed off and then enshittified again :(
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#15Another day and another nail in another awesome online community that has terrible leadership. Where will the communities move to? What new areas of the Internet will be created?
This reminds me of the Great Digg Migration.
If there was ever a time to promote Mastadon, it's now.
Re: Reddit Threatens to Remove Moderators from Subreddits Continuing Blackouts
#16Sorry... but this was handled very poorly by reddit and its CEO.
Should have just disabled the 'go private' option. A subreddit, is not 'owned' or property of a moderator.
Eg, https://www.reddit.com/r/Brooklyn/, should not be own by one person that decides what to do. The questions and answers are made by common people that want to see their content that they posted into the subreddit. They are not property of some anonymous mod/editor but belong to the community.
As a user of reddit, my relationship is with reddit and not some primadona mod who decides to deprive the community out of vital information. I have contributed to many subreddit, and the mods never asked for permission form the contributors if they actually wanted to go dark. They don't own the content, and reddit needs to act.
Re: Reddit Threatens to Remove Moderators from Subreddits Continuing Blackouts
#17What's the end game here for reddit? There's no way this would end well.
What do you mean? How can this end poorly? Most people browsing Reddit are addicted with no viable substitutes. Breaking their addiction through continued blackouts would end badly. Replacing some mods no user cares about will hardly have an impact. Lets be realistic.
Replacing these volunteer moderators with paid moderators is obviously not in the cards, which can only mean Reddit wants to replace these volunteer moderators with other volunteer moderators. Assuming anyone volunteers in the first place.
Given that moderation is a thankless (and, in this case, unpaid) job, do you really think that many people with good intentions are stepping forward to take on that responsibility? Or is Reddit accidentally gonna recruit a bunch of trolls who turn r/apple into a hentai and piracy forum?
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#18Thing is, I am much more loyal to the mods of my favorite subs, then I'm to reddit. And my guess is, that is the case with a lot of the power users.
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#19What's the end game here for reddit? There's no way this would end well.
I honestly don't think this will affect reddit that much.
I find the whole thing quite annoying, to be honest, and I imagine I'm not alone.
Unhappy mods are free to leave, there's no need to pull the rug from under everyone else who doesn't care.
I don't need yet another thing to log in to.
I'll only stop using reddit if they get rid of old.reddit.com.
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#20One thing that I was unaware of, that seems even more dire than the api pricing changes, is that Reddit apparently intends to IPO in the near (This signals to me that the service is guaranteed to steadily worsen until it's unrecognizable & forced into (deserved) irrelevance.