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The note Reddit sent to moderators threatening them if they don’t reopen

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Post by LordDragonfang »

nanidin wrote: post #168
LordDragonfang wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>There is massive friction to being able to post anywhere. Reddit would be objectively better with a less heavy handed approach to moderation Whenever I see this sentiment I'm honestly stumped as to how anyone's experience can be so different from mine. What exactly is it that you're trying to post that's so difficult? because from what I see in nearly every sub, they'd be improved by more moderation, since nearly al…

My local subreddit has become a proxy for /r/fuckcars and is also pushing a strong pro-new-airport narrative, among other things. There is a subreddit rule against “creating drama in the community” and any comment against the hive mind on these topics is interpreted by the mods as creating drama and removed, sometimes including a temporary ban. They more or less enforce the echo chamber. Disagreement is futile. Meanw…

That's unfortunate, and you've managed to present one of the few good counterexamples there. Unfortunately, "" isn't really a great topic for a singular community, since cities, by nature, host multitudes, and are inherently political entities. The best alternative is probably to create your own sub, or try to talk to one of the mods about it in private so as not to create drama.

Re: The note Reddit sent to moderators threatening them if they don’t reopen

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Post by jayknight »

mjamesaustin wrote: post #23
pixelpoet wrote: post #5

I really hope a decent Reddit replacement shows up soon; my impression is that HN is mostly webdevs, so surely some of y'all are on it?

I was confused at first by the federated nature of Lemmy, but making an account was easy and I'm thoroughly enjoying it now. The important thing to note – even though you join a particular Lemmy "instance", it doesn't particularly matter which one, because you can subscribe to communities (subreddits) from any instance. The instance I joined – vlemmy.net An aggregator of communities to join – https://lemmyverse.net/c…

That's true as long as your instance does block or get blocked by the insurance you want to interact on.

Re: The note Reddit sent to moderators threatening them if they don’t reopen

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Post by nerdix »

bytesizedbitch wrote: post #99
Havoc wrote: post #16

They’re gonna be left with bottom of the barrel mods. It’s a thankless task to begin with - a marginal proposition at best. Add some threats as a thank you for the unpaid work and it becomes downright abusive Who the hell is going to want to mod in that context?

I used to moderate a support subreddit, we eventually moved to Discord and encouraged everyone to move there as well. Behaviour such as only supports our move.

Ironically, discord doesn't support use of third party clients and you risk an account ban if you use one of the many unofficial clients.

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Post by GreenWatermelon »

pixelpoet wrote: post #5

I really hope a decent Reddit replacement shows up soon; my impression is that HN is mostly webdevs, so surely some of y'all are on it?

I've started browsing https://tildes.net/ recently. For now, since the community is small, it feels like hackernews2, but I hope it gets bigger.

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Post by PepperdineG »

anthonypasq wrote: post #53
EA-3167 wrote: post #2

That's a hell of a way to treat the volunteers who make the existence of that site possible.

reddit moderators have an unbelievably inflated sense of their worth, which is why they thought this blackout was going to accomplish anything in the first place. I assure you, there is a line around the block of people clamoring to become mods. There's a reason its nigh impossible to become a mod of a big sub, the people that are doing it really like doing it and dont want more people joining to dilute their share o…

>reddit moderators have an unbelievably inflated sense of their worth

If moderators were inconsequential Reddit wouldn't be trying to hire and fire them.

>I assure you, there is a line around the block of people clamoring to become mods.

The willingness of others to do the same work doesn't make what someone does inconsequential. Would you say an NBA player is inconsequential because you could find a million people who would like to play in the NBA? Obviously being a Redditor moderator and being an NBA player are two different things but by how you are valuing based on willingness to replace, an NBA player would be more inconsequential than a Reddit moderator.

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Post by [deleted] »

Havoc wrote: post #16

They’re gonna be left with bottom of the barrel mods. It’s a thankless task to begin with - a marginal proposition at best. Add some threats as a thank you for the unpaid work and it becomes downright abusive Who the hell is going to want to mod in that context?

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Post by monsieurbanana »

BizarroLand wrote: post #188
alecco wrote: post #151

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Seems lemmy community has some issues. https://www.jayeless.net/2023/06/on-reddit-and-alternatives....

Those issues (per the article) being that it's not a perfected platform yet and that it's slightly different than reddit.

How do you go from this:

> There’s just no way I could feel comfortable in a community that supports the right-wing nationalist Putin’s war on Ukraine, or outright denies the harsh repression meted out against Muslims in China.

Which makes up 50% of the article, to "it's slightly different than reddit"?

Re: The note Reddit sent to moderators threatening them if they don’t reopen

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Post by jonathankoren »

themaninthedark wrote: post #180
jonathankoren wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

First labor strike, huh? Ask yourself, who told you that was true? The strikers? Or the guy with the vested interest in breaking the strike and desperate to find anyone -- literally anyone -- to cross the line?

If the mods want to go on strike it's not a problem. What I am talking about is that the mods decided to drag the users into their issue. I don't even use Reddit that often, I see that there is a vocal contingent that is telling me how Reddit is ruining Reddit. If the company wants to kill their community, that is their prerogative. If it kills their company, that is what happens.

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Re: The note Reddit sent to moderators threatening them if they don’t reopen

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Post by Havoc »

avereveard wrote: post #194
Havoc wrote: post #16

They’re gonna be left with bottom of the barrel mods. It’s a thankless task to begin with - a marginal proposition at best. Add some threats as a thank you for the unpaid work and it becomes downright abusive Who the hell is going to want to mod in that context?

do you have any evidence backing the statement that moderation quality correlates with sub closure?

> do you have any evidence backing the statement that moderation quality correlates with sub closure?

I made no such statement.

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