Any reason whatsoever to believe new mods won't fill this role immediately?
the point is not if they're getting replaced but if they're able to do so, everyone can become a moderator but how many people can actually moderate?
The Reddit moderators who coordinate many celebrity AMAs will no longer do so
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#12This is completely unsurprising. I wrote a handful of small bots for a subreddit I helped with for a few years. Had all this API stuff gone down back then I’d have shut down my stuff as well. I spent a couple hundred dollars over those years on services and servers to help with that sub and I wouldn’t change it looking back but I also would never do that for something on Reddit again given how their CEO has behaved.…
For someone such as myself who has accessed Reddit through a web bowser since its founding in 2005, I don’t get the outrage. So some people can’t access it through their favorite app? I’m more annoyed mods are shutting off access to a valuable resource that millions of users including myself contributed to over the last 18 years.
I bet you're still on old reddit. This is the equivalent of shutting down old reddit for mobile.
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#13so no more Ghislaine breaching her incarceration conditions? or is she still going to retail all her current juicy mod privileges?
Re: The Reddit moderators who coordinate many celebrity AMAs will no longer do so
#14Any reason whatsoever to believe new mods won't fill this role immediately?
the point is not if they're getting replaced but if they're able to do so, everyone can become a moderator but how many people can actually moderate?
I view moderators a lot like open source maintainers. It’s often a thankless job you do for free and you have to put up with a lot of shit. Also a lot of people think the job is easy and “anyone could do it” when we know that’s not the case in reality. You need someone who cares in that position. Are there bad mods and bad OS maintainers? Absolutely, but it’s still not as easy as people make it out to be to replace either.
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
the point is not if they're getting replaced but if they're able to do so, everyone can become a moderator but how many people can actually moderate?
I view moderators a lot like open source maintainers. It’s often a thankless job you do for free and you have to put up with a lot of shit. Also a lot of people think the job is easy and “anyone could do it” when we know that’s not the case in reality. You need someone who cares in that position. Are there bad mods and bad OS maintainers? Absolutely, but it’s still not as easy as people make it out to be to replace e…
I'd argue there are a lot more people who can moderate than can code, and it's much easier to learn to moderate than code. How many millions of redditors are there?
I think people here really want Reddit to die for it's bad behavior and are doing a lot of wishful thinking.
Re: The Reddit moderators who coordinate many celebrity AMAs will no longer do so
#16This is completely unsurprising. I wrote a handful of small bots for a subreddit I helped with for a few years. Had all this API stuff gone down back then I’d have shut down my stuff as well. I spent a couple hundred dollars over those years on services and servers to help with that sub and I wouldn’t change it looking back but I also would never do that for something on Reddit again given how their CEO has behaved.…
For someone such as myself who has accessed Reddit through a web bowser since its founding in 2005, I don’t get the outrage. So some people can’t access it through their favorite app? I’m more annoyed mods are shutting off access to a valuable resource that millions of users including myself contributed to over the last 18 years.
> I don’t get the outrage. So some people can’t access it through their favorite app?
OP's comment states multiple good reasons why people would be pissed off. There are many, many more.
And you don't even need to be "outraged" to leave - it's enough to feel disrespected. If you don't feel disrespected, fine - stay. Have fun. But, ignoring other people's real experience, then immediately acting as if there's nothing to be mad about, is disingenuous.
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
I view moderators a lot like open source maintainers. It’s often a thankless job you do for free and you have to put up with a lot of shit. Also a lot of people think the job is easy and “anyone could do it” when we know that’s not the case in reality. You need someone who cares in that position. Are there bad mods and bad OS maintainers? Absolutely, but it’s still not as easy as people make it out to be to replace e…
I'd argue there are a lot more people who can moderate than can code, and it's much easier to learn to moderate than code. How many millions of redditors are there? I think people here really want Reddit to die for it's bad behavior and are doing a lot of wishful thinking.
It's turning around a bit, but historically half of a moderator's job was coding, either specialized bots or managing gigantic automod configs.
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#18Celebrity AMAs are mostly just Q&As with celebrity publicists, and are done purely for promotion (usually for some new film, show, or brand they're selling), and are a great example of how fake and astroturfed reddit is in general.
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#19This is completely unsurprising. I wrote a handful of small bots for a subreddit I helped with for a few years. Had all this API stuff gone down back then I’d have shut down my stuff as well. I spent a couple hundred dollars over those years on services and servers to help with that sub and I wouldn’t change it looking back but I also would never do that for something on Reddit again given how their CEO has behaved.…
For someone such as myself who has accessed Reddit through a web bowser since its founding in 2005, I don’t get the outrage. So some people can’t access it through their favorite app? I’m more annoyed mods are shutting off access to a valuable resource that millions of users including myself contributed to over the last 18 years.
Welcome to how protesting works. This could be a time for you to inform yourself of why the protesters are pissed off and why Reddit is at this point, never going to get back to the quality of engagement it used to have.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
For someone such as myself who has accessed Reddit through a web bowser since its founding in 2005, I don’t get the outrage. So some people can’t access it through their favorite app? I’m more annoyed mods are shutting off access to a valuable resource that millions of users including myself contributed to over the last 18 years.
Welcome to how protesting works. This could be a time for you to inform yourself of why the protesters are pissed off and why Reddit is at this point, never going to get back to the quality of engagement it used to have.
It could. Or I could be the time I decide that many of these people are prima donna big babies. I choose the latter.