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Re: Reddit is removing moderators that protest by taking their communities private

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Post by Ygg2 »

Loveaway wrote: post #128

This is so sad honestly. Like wtf is going on, no apology, no good will, doubling down on the complete moral suicide of Reddit. To push an app no-one ever liked, you know that, but whatever. No-one likes “new” Reddit either, you know that, but whatever. Who’s even gonna use the site after this? Social media zombie sheeple is all that's going to be left. Congrats on your dumb little site, from the front-page of the In…

Killing geese that lay Golden Eggs is old and enduring Silicon valley tradition.

Re: Reddit is removing moderators that protest by taking their communities private

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Post by cryptoegorophy »

spazx wrote: post #109

Smelled this one coming miles away. Next, they'll hand over fan-built communities to the entities that own the IPs they're dedicated to. Eg. r/starwars to Disney, r/startrek to Viacom/Paramount, etc. Then, old.reddit.com will stop working spontaneously, just like how they toyed with killing mobile browser access to force users to download the app, which they probably will eventually. That's going to be the final push…

Any good alternative? I like hacker news for now that it still got some comments worth reading and interesting articles

Re: Reddit is removing moderators that protest by taking their communities private

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Post by Takennickname »

This whole scuffle is reddit leadership fighting against the 1% Mods that moderate 99% of the subreddits. Everyone else is just a pawn.

The mods are just jealous that reddit is gonna be making a lot of money and want a cut. Even though this looks like reddit vs the community, this is actually reddit vs the Mod 1%.

Re: Reddit is removing moderators that protest by taking their communities private

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Post by cjs_ac »

Accujack wrote: post #105
janalsncm wrote: post #31

Reddit could have avoided all of this years ago by building out the tools that moderators claim to need. Instead, they relied on third parties to create them. Doing this would have nullified mods’ strongest justification for protesting. While removing 3rd party apps is certainly annoying for users, mods are what keep the site functioning. The fact that Reddit chose to take this course of action tells me that they don…

>The fact that Reddit chose to take this course of action tells me that they don’t actually know that much about their own website. That might also explain why they never built out the tooling to begin with. It's seemed like that for years. They've had strong reasons to develop the site for years. The two main things they've done are build an app for phones and spend a relatively long time creating a "new" UI that ch…

The visual design of the interface selects different segments humanity for the user base. That's why HN looks like this.

A more 'friendly' UI attracts people who don't have much of note to say, will consume what they're given, and respond to ads more.

Re: Reddit is removing moderators that protest by taking their communities private

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Post by rswail »

wnevets wrote: post #100

I just would like to thank the CEOs of Twitter and Reddit for helping to kill my doom scrolling addiction.

I will miss using Apollo, which is one of the best apps on my phone. It works well, complies with all of Apple's HIG rules, and is supported by an enthusiastic and communicative developer.

Reddit management are incompetent fools that are looking for the VC cashout of an IPO before the site goes to shit.

Cory Doctorow's concept of "enshittification" continues to become more and more prescient of the last few years of internet "development".

Re: Reddit is removing moderators that protest by taking their communities private

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Post by buildbot »

p-e-w wrote: post #50

The stickied comment stating that "this contradicts standing policies" is amusing. As if Reddit was somehow contractually bound to abide by random rules that they themselves made up, on their own site. It's astonishing how many people don't seem to understand what it means to be a user today. Especially if you're not paying, but even if you are.

Comments like these are really.... something.

It's basically boiling down to don't you plebes know we can smash you like insects whenever we want? Now go enjoy your trickles of piss. People are protesting because they do understand, and they don't like it, and they will probably leave.

Re: Reddit is removing moderators that protest by taking their communities private

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Post by mustacheemperor »

javajosh wrote: post #92
aqfamnzc wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for the link - I wouldn't have seen that thread had you not brought it up. However, are you implying the original story is being manually supressed? Could it be the discussion there got too heated? There are other factors that determine ranking, see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

YC is a Reddit investor, and dang hasn't chimed in connecting the threads, and the other thread was removed from the homepage. It's suggestive but it doesn't prove anything. The guidelines say that HN moderates its own properties less, but that may not always be true, especially pre IPO.

I don’t think it’s suggestive. This came up in an earlier thread[0] and he said it set off the flamewar detector, which likely happened again with this one. He probably just hasn’t seen the threads to merge them yet, it’s nighttime. Thanks for running the asylum dang.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36142285#36143711

Re: Reddit is removing moderators that protest by taking their communities private

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Post by kibwen »

lannisterstark wrote: post #118
mlyle wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The richest part here is where spez refers to moderators as a "landed gentry": https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/reddit-protest-blacko... “And I think, on Reddit, the analogy is closer to the landed gentry: The people who get there first get to stay there and pass it down to their descendants, and that is not democratic.” What does that make spez relative to the constituents in his community?

>that is not democratic Lol like he cares about democracy.

Out-of-touch CEOs and pretending to give a damn about democracy, where have we seen that one before: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/twitter-users-vote...

Re: Reddit is removing moderators that protest by taking their communities private

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Post by spazx »

cryptoegorophy wrote: post #152
spazx wrote: post #109

Smelled this one coming miles away. Next, they'll hand over fan-built communities to the entities that own the IPs they're dedicated to. Eg. r/starwars to Disney, r/startrek to Viacom/Paramount, etc. Then, old.reddit.com will stop working spontaneously, just like how they toyed with killing mobile browser access to force users to download the app, which they probably will eventually. That's going to be the final push…

Any good alternative? I like hacker news for now that it still got some comments worth reading and interesting articles

Not that I know of. I keep poking around all the ones that pop up here, some of which are nicely made but still small, and I've been contemplating joining a Lemmy instance or starting one with some friends.

Re: Reddit is removing moderators that protest by taking their communities private

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Post by ipaddr »

zik wrote: post #137
kentrado wrote: post #116

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The mods in /r/anarchism are selected by voting.

That's amazing and wonderful. The only guys who use a vote are anarchists.

Makes sense, it's not that they don't follow rules/code it's just they do so randomly which breaks all rules
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