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Re: Ask HN: What was the outcome of Reddit blackout?

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Post by RickJWagner »

thaumaturgy wrote: post #48

The end result was a stalemate. Reddit did not change any of its policies. Enough of the people responsible for posting and managing content left the platform to cause a noticeable impact on it. Here's a fun thing to look at, https://subredditstats.com/ for any major subreddit, e.g.: https://subredditstats.com/r/worldnews https://subredditstats.com/r/explainlikeimfive https://subredditstats.com/r/videos All of the mo…

I wish that were true. I like some small hobby-related sub-reddits, I don't care if a lot people participate. The political trolls and haters are overwhelming. I wish they'd all drop off.

Re: Ask HN: What was the outcome of Reddit blackout?

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Post by dclowd9901 »

DoreenMichele wrote: post #202

Reddit has a right and a need to figure out monetization. This was part of that effort and it was likely painful but Reddit is dead anyway if it never figures out monetization. I didn't participate in the blackout. I felt the mods were wrong to take that approach. I did go to bat for blind mods. They need better mod tools than they have. That comment is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36232441 Hopefully Re…

Since you run a few subs maybe you know: if modding has gotten harder since the API switch, why don’t mods just bring in more mods to help?

Re: Ask HN: What was the outcome of Reddit blackout?

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Post by ecshafer »

marginalia_nu wrote: post #38
jseliger wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We'll see. Back in 2015 I wrote about how poor moderation and moderator incentives were problems, and yet since then Reddit has kept growing: https://jakeseliger.com/2015/03/16/the-moderator-problem-how... .

You can be both large and irrelevant. Facebook is perhaps the best example of this. Reddit feels headed in the same direction.

Facebook is incredibly relevant. It probably has more impact on more people's lives than Twitter or Reddit. Facebook isn't cool anymore. But for the 30+ crowd, especially the non-college educated crowd its huge. Tons of small businesses use it to host their "websites", the community groups are huge, parents / family groups, facebook marketplace totally replaced craigslist for a lot of people.

Re: Ask HN: What was the outcome of Reddit blackout?

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Post by ClassyJacket »

thaumaturgy wrote: post #48

The end result was a stalemate. Reddit did not change any of its policies. Enough of the people responsible for posting and managing content left the platform to cause a noticeable impact on it. Here's a fun thing to look at, https://subredditstats.com/ for any major subreddit, e.g.: https://subredditstats.com/r/worldnews https://subredditstats.com/r/explainlikeimfive https://subredditstats.com/r/videos All of the mo…

That's not a stalemate, reddit just won.

Re: Ask HN: What was the outcome of Reddit blackout?

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Post by tensor »

DoreenMichele wrote: post #202

Reddit has a right and a need to figure out monetization. This was part of that effort and it was likely painful but Reddit is dead anyway if it never figures out monetization. I didn't participate in the blackout. I felt the mods were wrong to take that approach. I did go to bat for blind mods. They need better mod tools than they have. That comment is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36232441 Hopefully Re…

They have a right yes, but they will also rightly suffer from their approach. I not only participated in the blackout, but because of the CEOs arrogant comments about how valuable my data is and how they deserve to sell it, while destroying the tools I value and use, I also deleted all of my valuable data from reddit and after handing off the one sub I moderated I left the platform forever.

I think reddit is a wonderful idea that needs different leadership, and the only way for that to happen at this point is for reddit to die and something new and preferably harder to buy out takes its place.

Re: Ask HN: What was the outcome of Reddit blackout?

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Post by Rastonbury »

nerdponx wrote: post #125
ben_w wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Pyrrhic victory for Reddit Corporation?

Hardly Phyrrhic. "Noticeable in numbers" does not equate to even short-term financial damage, let alone harm to the longer-term financial outlook. Reddit Corporation won unambiguously, as expected by most reasonable observers.

If those numbers are to be believed, it ruined any chance of their IPO for a couple of years. It's hard to sweep 'we lost 20%+ MAUs because of a policy change' under the rug when users/impressions are the lifeblood of a social media site

Re: Ask HN: What was the outcome of Reddit blackout?

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Post by hliyan »

nathanaldensr wrote: post #51
hamandcheese wrote: post #45

I never was a huge Reddit user before, but I have noticed an increase in lower-quality reddit-style comments here on HN in the last year or so. Thankfully they usually get downvoted or are already dead. I might have to turn off showdead though.

I've noticed the same. Usually it takes the form of dumb phrase-like jokes, retorts, puns, etc, with the entire chain being downvoted and flagged. This is necessary to keep HN from devolving into thoughtless meme-style posts that just clutter the space.

I've been using both HN and Reddit roughly equally since 2013. A few months ago I started noticing a higher incidence of joke comments here at HN. Fortunately they seem to get down voted quickly.

Re: Ask HN: What was the outcome of Reddit blackout?

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Post by DoreenMichele »

dclowd9901 wrote: post #212
DoreenMichele wrote: post #202

Reddit has a right and a need to figure out monetization. This was part of that effort and it was likely painful but Reddit is dead anyway if it never figures out monetization. I didn't participate in the blackout. I felt the mods were wrong to take that approach. I did go to bat for blind mods. They need better mod tools than they have. That comment is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36232441 Hopefully Re…

Since you run a few subs maybe you know: if modding has gotten harder since the API switch, why don’t mods just bring in more mods to help?

I work alone. I accepted the offer to join me on my largest forum once. They bailed within a day or three without so much as saying "bye, bitch!"

I'm not blind. I have no idea if it's gotten harder for blind mods.

Sorry.

Re: Ask HN: What was the outcome of Reddit blackout?

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Post by [deleted] »

paulddraper wrote: post #209
thaumaturgy wrote: post #48

The end result was a stalemate. Reddit did not change any of its policies. Enough of the people responsible for posting and managing content left the platform to cause a noticeable impact on it. Here's a fun thing to look at, https://subredditstats.com/ for any major subreddit, e.g.: https://subredditstats.com/r/worldnews https://subredditstats.com/r/explainlikeimfive https://subredditstats.com/r/videos All of the mo…

It wasn't a "stalemate," Reddit got its way and the subreddits were reopened.

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