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Re: Reddit Threatens to Remove Moderators from Subreddits Continuing Blackouts

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Post by mandmandam »

moskie wrote: post #76

We (the internet community) made such a terrible mistake with social media. We formed connections and communities and friendships on sites like Facebook and Twitter and Reddit, but those companies need to make money, so those connections are only allowed to exist as long as they are part of a profitable system. How awful it is to reduce human connection to that. To think that I am only allowed to maintain certain soc…

Yes!

And they're so incredibly cheap to run, in the scheme of things.

They're TEXT and LINKS ffs.

Even Snapchat, which deals in video, costs about $2.50 per user per year to run.

Honestly, we're some set of dopes to let people like Zuck and Huffman build yachts and apocalypse bunkers, with bloody advertising money, all for the genius idea of sharing text and links on the internet.

Re: Reddit Threatens to Remove Moderators from Subreddits Continuing Blackouts

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Post by Panzer04 »

satvikpendem wrote: post #71

> If a moderator team unanimously decides to stop moderating, we will invite new, active moderators to keep these spaces open and accessible to users. If there is no consensus, but at least one mod wants to keep the community going, we will respect their decisions and remove those who no longer want to moderate from the mod team. Moderators exist to moderate a community, not to shut it down wholesale. Reddit's respon…

Worth noting many subs actively voted for the shutdown. It's very much a case-by-case basis.

Also, shitting on your userbase only works for so long. You keep consuming people's trust and you eventually reach a tipping point where people are actively looking to move to alternatives. It would not surprise me if there is a sudden exodus if a suitable alternative to reddit became clear.

I don't understand why reddit has taken such an adversarial stance on the whole matter - it's stupid and shortsighted in such a community-driven service, and if I were an investor I'd be very concerned about management, personally.

Re: Reddit Threatens to Remove Moderators from Subreddits Continuing Blackouts

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Post by boomboomsubban »

irrational wrote: post #72

I used shreddit to delete all of my comments a few days ago. I was shocked to discover today that they are all back. I'm deleting all of them again, but clearly Reddit is doing things on the back end. I've also read of people having their unsubs reversed.

When a subreddit is private, I don't think you have access to your comments to delete them. So depending on your timing it may have been unintentional.

Re: Reddit Threatens to Remove Moderators from Subreddits Continuing Blackouts

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Post by Levitz »

liquidise wrote: post #35
ChildOfChaos wrote: post #6

Sounds good, they should ban the moderators that are ruining the communities.

This strikes me as a fair impression, as someone who doesn't really have a horse in this race. The job of moderators is ostensibly to foster communication and limit abuse within their subreddits. While i understand the motive of these protests, they appear to run counter to the moderator responsibilities?

Didn't see Reddit taking action when many subs went private to protest in solidarity with Black Lives Matter.

Re: Reddit Threatens to Remove Moderators from Subreddits Continuing Blackouts

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Post by jjulius »

paulddraper wrote: post #95
concinds wrote: post #74

The dishonesty continues. > if they are no longer interested in moderating that community They're still interested. They're just protesting your policies. > [if] at least one mod [...] wants to keep the community going, we will respect their decisions and remove those who no longer want to moderate from the mod team. This one takes the cake. They're dangling a carrot: hey, any low-ranked mod interested in taking over…

Doesn't seem dishonest to me. Reddit cares more about having an open subreddit then the mods do. This was the obvious conclusion

GP already highlighted the dishonesty, it's here:

> if they are no longer interested in moderating that community

The mods, as GP stated, are interested in moderating that community, they just disagree with Reddit's changes. They wouldn't be taking the path of shuttering their subs in protest if they didn't give a damn.

That is absolutely dishonesty on the part of Reddit.

Re: Reddit Threatens to Remove Moderators from Subreddits Continuing Blackouts

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Post by fernly »

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?

Lemmy.world is doing pretty well off "Rexxitors".

Re: Reddit Threatens to Remove Moderators from Subreddits Continuing Blackouts

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Post by pixl97 »

Panzer04 wrote: post #92
shivy wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

The concern I have with these federated instances is I don't see how they resolve the long term problems of stability. Content on instances can disappear at a moment's notice if it goes down. My favorite part about reddit is the amount of information it has that is well-indexed by google. These Lemmy and kbin alternatives might fulfill the moment-to-moment chatter, but it worries me that there's no guarantee of conti…

Stability costs money no one wants to pay.

Re: Reddit Threatens to Remove Moderators from Subreddits Continuing Blackouts

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Post by impomura »

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…

Well, it's not public utility. A founder created the subreddit and a team of mods manage it to make it usable for you. Brooklyn and all other subs you use would be radically different with a different team of mods
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