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Re: Reddit Threatens to Remove Moderators from Subreddits Continuing Blackouts

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Post by tumaru »

tumaru wrote: post #41
rychco wrote: post #20

One 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.

Sorry if this is a stupid question, but can someone please explain what this reply means? It isn't the first time I've seen "* * *" and I'm wondering what it's significance is?

Odd, maybe it's a quirk of the harmonic app, as I can see a normal comment now. Please ignore my previous reply.

Re: Reddit Threatens to Remove Moderators from Subreddits Continuing Blackouts

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Post by ClassyJacket »

tumaru wrote: post #41
rychco wrote: post #20

One 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.

Sorry if this is a stupid question, but can someone please explain what this reply means? It isn't the first time I've seen "* * *" and I'm wondering what it's significance is?

I'm not sure what you're referring to, on my screen it's a normal comment lamenting that the quality of reddit will continue to decline after they IPO

Re: Reddit Threatens to Remove Moderators from Subreddits Continuing Blackouts

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Post by charcircuit »

>If a moderator team unanimously decides to stop moderating, we will invite new, active moderators to keep these spaces open and accessible to users.

Most moderators haven't decided they want to stop moderating. Privating a subreddit is completely separate from the desire to moderate.

Re: Reddit Threatens to Remove Moderators from Subreddits Continuing Blackouts

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Post by Fauntleroy »

k2xl wrote: post #30

For someone kind of out of the loop, can someone explain what they think reddit should do instead of charging for their API access? After all Reddit is a business right? What alternatives do users want reddit to do instead?

If they're going to charge for it, they should at the very least charge a reasonable price. They are not doing that, and are thus essentially extorting third party apps (who will not be able to pay the exorbitant fees).

Re: Reddit Threatens to Remove Moderators from Subreddits Continuing Blackouts

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Post by ardit33 »

toomuchtodo wrote: post #36
ardit33 wrote: post #16

Sorry... 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…

Calls mods primadonas while also feeling entitled to “vital information” and ownership by the community that Reddit says they own. It’s out of touch all the way down to Steve.

mods are not the ones creating the information. It is community driven. I have contributed a lot of info, in various subreddit, and I don't want to see it go dark.

Mods never asked for permission form the actual redditors on their decisions and they are acting as mini dictators. Time for Reddit to act.

Re: Reddit Threatens to Remove Moderators from Subreddits Continuing Blackouts

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Post by chabad360 »

Yujf wrote: post #46

I still won't entirely understand where Appolo's 20Million figure comes from. As far as I understand all the outrage is because of what the Appolo dev published, but reddit seems to claim that even for third party apps they get 100 queries per minute per user which seems like it would be enough? Whay is Appolo doing that this is not enough or what am i misunderstanding about 100 queries per Oauth client?

OAuth client means the Apollo app, not the individual user.

Re: Reddit Threatens to Remove Moderators from Subreddits Continuing Blackouts

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Post by rbera »

Yujf wrote: post #46

I still won't entirely understand where Appolo's 20Million figure comes from. As far as I understand all the outrage is because of what the Appolo dev published, but reddit seems to claim that even for third party apps they get 100 queries per minute per user which seems like it would be enough? Whay is Appolo doing that this is not enough or what am i misunderstanding about 100 queries per Oauth client?

It’s not 100 queries per user, it’s per client id where the client id refers to the app as a whole. Effectively they changed this from the old limits where it was per user. See https://old.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/145bram/_/jnk7rfg/?...

Re: Reddit Threatens to Remove Moderators from Subreddits Continuing Blackouts

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Post by chimeracoder »

jpcfl wrote: post #15
gareth_untether wrote: post #7

Another 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.

> If there was ever a time to promote Mastadon, it's now.

Neither Mastodon nor ActivityPup are a real replacement for the use case of Reddit. They serve very different purposes.

Re: Reddit Threatens to Remove Moderators from Subreddits Continuing Blackouts

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Post by mc32 »

gareth_untether wrote: post #7

Another 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?

If they replace the mods with sympathetic mods, then maybe they can weather the protests.

Question 1 is can they find cooperative mods who will not betray them.

Question 2 is will they steer the community in the same way as the previous mods? Mods, for better or for worse, dictate the culture of a community.

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