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Reddit CEO Says Mods Too Powerful, Plans to Weaken After Blackout
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Re: Reddit CEO Says Mods Too Powerful, Plans to Weaken After Blackout
#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why should the users have any vote over anything?
Well, for one, they're the sole value prop for the site. They generate, rank, and curate the content in concert with mods and admins.
Why don't the users go and do that somewhere else? genuine question, I don't use Reddit.
Re: Reddit CEO Says Mods Too Powerful, Plans to Weaken After Blackout
#33Seems like the right time for someone to start a new site with similar capabilities, and maybe based on lessons learned, different legal and monetary arrangements with the stakeholders. More like a co-op structure?
Re: Reddit CEO Says Mods Too Powerful, Plans to Weaken After Blackout
#34Good riddance. The moderators are the worst part of Reddit. Just pay someone to do their job.
>The moderators are the worst part of Reddit. probably why you were down voted, I think the mods provide a decent service preventing it from degenerating into an echo chamber like truth-social >Just pay someone to do their job This I agree with, if the mods were paid well, maybe things would be better. Maybe a rule change like "If your group gets xxx many unique users posting content per day, you get paid X". But tha…
> preventing it from degenerating into an echo chamber like truth-social
I can’t compare to truth-social as Ive never used it. But big subs like /r/politics are definitely echo chambers and I think they are that way because the mods like it that way.
Re: Reddit CEO Says Mods Too Powerful, Plans to Weaken After Blackout
#35ah yes unpayed people which don't just invest a ton of time and have to use a ton of 3rd party tooling to even make it viable and much more often have to coop with the social backslash of "moderation mistakes" have too much power by .... privating a subredit which likely wouldn't exit without them during a time when they can't moderate(1) it ... except that that and making it read only is pretty much the only responsible thing they can do
(1): due to protesting, also somewhat due to the API changes but that is more complex
Re: Reddit CEO Says Mods Too Powerful, Plans to Weaken After Blackout
#36Ha. There were some weird posts from new users in subreddits I frequent. 'we need to rise up against the mods the blackout is an outrage!' It was met with unanimous wtf is wrong with you, go outside. I get the feeling spez is creating new accounts and posting as them again.
Well, I, for one, don't fucking care about third party apps (which make money mind you)
Reddit is/was my first source of real human information for a lot of stuff (since google is unusable now). And this blackout was really a pain in the ass
Re: Reddit CEO Says Mods Too Powerful, Plans to Weaken After Blackout
#37Quote from him in the NBC interview: “…a business owner can be fired by its shareholders…” You know, I think he may be on to something there. Maybe someone should look into that for oh, say, the CEO of Reddit.
He doesn't seem to have a great way with words. If you are the owner (implying >50% ownership), you can't be fired by the shareholders. If you hold less than 50%, you are not the business owner.
Re: Reddit CEO Says Mods Too Powerful, Plans to Weaken After Blackout
#38Good riddance. The moderators are the worst part of Reddit. Just pay someone to do their job.
>The moderators are the worst part of Reddit. probably why you were down voted, I think the mods provide a decent service preventing it from degenerating into an echo chamber like truth-social >Just pay someone to do their job This I agree with, if the mods were paid well, maybe things would be better. Maybe a rule change like "If your group gets xxx many unique users posting content per day, you get paid X". But tha…
>preventing it from degenerating into an echo chamber
Reddit mods are notorious for creating echo chambers through 3rd party mod tools. You know, those tools autobanning about any account who happens to post on a sub they consider no-no, often regardless the context. If those tools weren't on the line, they wouldn't care to join the blackout.
Re: Reddit CEO Says Mods Too Powerful, Plans to Weaken After Blackout
#39Mods do whatever they like: "things are fine"
Mods hurt potential profits: "mods too powerful, need to act"
If the community doesn't like the mods, they can... create a new subreddit with new mods.
Re: Reddit CEO Says Mods Too Powerful, Plans to Weaken After Blackout
#40This guy is so tone deaf it's astonishing