Its been a week now since I deleted reddit. I have 7.5 hours per week back! Amazing move, highly recommend.
Reddit is removing moderators that protest by taking their communities private
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Re: Reddit is removing moderators that protest by taking their communities private
#192Earlier quoted context omitted.
> One somewhat-related bit on the topic of moderators: does it bother anyone else that the stewards of some of these communities are effectively 100% anonymous? It doesn't bother me one bit. If the community is that big a company should fork over cash and pay employees to moderate it instead, or keep an eye on the volunteer moderators for any suspicious actions. Instead of exposing identification I rather have modera…
> Instead of exposing identification I rather have moderators be subject to yearly votes. The would just create a brigading problem. Political subs could encourage their members to join lists of hundreds of subreddits and all vote for picked candidates. Coordination could happen on some other site as well.
I thought of a similar issue.
It could be limited to active high karma participants of the community, however anyone can game that with GPT powered bots.
Another possibility is to have yearly oustings instead of voting mods in.
At 90% disapproval mods get kicked out. This along with brigading detection should cover damage by bad actors for the most part.
Re: Reddit is removing moderators that protest by taking their communities private
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Any good alternative? I like hacker news for now that it still got some comments worth reading and interesting articles
It's going to sound dumb, but honestly? I filled an rss reader up with some of the best sources I could think of, and am actually really enjoying just quietly taking the world in again, instead of trying to come up with my latest snarky Reddit-friendly quip.
Do you have your best source list?
Re: Reddit is removing moderators that protest by taking their communities private
#194Smelled 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…
> 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.
This isn't an accurate extrapolation. In fact it's extrapolating in the opposite direction.
The moderators are taking a moral stand against an API policy. But the the actual users of the subreddits never consented to this moral stand. By removing these moderators that are working against the users, reddit is giving the subreddits back to the users.
Re: Reddit is removing moderators that protest by taking their communities private
#195Re: Reddit is removing moderators that protest by taking their communities private
#196Earlier quoted context omitted.
Any good alternative? I like hacker news for now that it still got some comments worth reading and interesting articles
It's going to sound dumb, but honestly? I filled an rss reader up with some of the best sources I could think of, and am actually really enjoying just quietly taking the world in again, instead of trying to come up with my latest snarky Reddit-friendly quip.
I've actually been wanting to do this, but I don't personally know a lot of good sources that still use RSS. Would love to see your feed list.
Re: Reddit is removing moderators that protest by taking their communities private
#197If you're interested in fully saying goodbye to Reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/settings/data-request - Request all of your data here. This will give you a copy of everything to have as a backup.
This will also allow you to use something like https://github.com/nixfu/reddit-shreddit to fully delete your reddit account (including comments, posts, etc).
Re: Reddit is removing moderators that protest by taking their communities private
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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?
> “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.” That is some hefty fucking projection from him.
It is funny and almost the same level of funny as CEOs saying WFH is not fair to people can't do WFH ( why won't you think of all the poor people, who are not laptop class you awful person )!
Re: Reddit is removing moderators that protest by taking their communities private
#199Smelled 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…
> Next, they'll hand over fan-built communities to the entities that own the IPs they're dedicated to. Eg. r/starwars to Disney, This happened on the r/audible subreddit, the official audibledotcom customer service account became a mod and started deleting all the threads remotely critical of audible or amazon. The subreddit revolved and they were removed as a mod but it was a solid 5-months of nary a harsh word. If…
This ^^
Re: Reddit is removing moderators that protest by taking their communities private
#200I have questions: The question for me is are they removing their unpaid labor which they found out can't control? What are they replacing it with more unpaid labor vying for power? Those who have two brain cells to rub together think that this going to end well for Reddit?