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The person who makes the subreddit is the head mod; they can add others. Some subs do voting, or solicit nominations for new mods.
thanks. is the nomination and voting a built in reddit feature? if so, this sounds like a good time to use it.
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It doesn't work out for everybody. Lots of high quality communities outside of reddit have been invaded by people looking for an alternative and as a result they are now fighting massive traffic spikes, spam or the general reddit hive-mind taking over their discussion.
Do you have any examples?
... until they just take over the moderation of their largest communities and this whole thing ends. I mean what's so magical about the moderation of something like r/videos other than the mods being free labor for Reddit?
Moderation can make or break a subreddit
Domain-squatting on a couple dozen important keywords and brand names in 2005 is the powermod secret to success, not that they’re just that great at their job that they rose to the top on merit.
There are quite a few subs that prove this - really, really badly moderated but sitting on super, super valuable real estate. And Reddit doesn’t really have a mechanism for handling this unless the mod is outright posting gore or something - they got their first in 2005, that’s the end of it.
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Agreed, writing a scraper is simply worth the cost to get the training data.
Yeah I remember back in the day people stealing credit card data used to claim there is nothing to be done against them. Then warez kids on irc claiming no one can or should stop piracy. Things will eventually balance out, dont worry too much.
They're getting away with this because there really is no serious competitor for reddit. When people actually start migrating away from reddit and post/comment volume is significantly down, you'll see reddit suddenly be a lot more willing to engage with the community.
You’re right due to the network effects Reddit currently enjoys. Personally, I’ve quite enjoyed using tildes.net lately. I know everyone is jumping on Lemmy and federation, which is great in practice but Tildes feels more accessible to me and for that reason may have more potential to actually capture a user base.
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> Reddit earned a $456.38 million in revenue in 2021 from ads and premium user subscriptions. Im curious about spending..
Like so many other startup darlings, probably has a matching 9 figure AWS bill from their over-engineered ball of yarn that nobody has bothered doing any cost/performance optimization on.
There are likely costs associated with this.
That's great news. I'm always cheering for the little guy. I love capitalism but I also love people flexing on people that try to abuse their customers.
Also, is it capitalism you love, or is it free markets and independent business? Cause capitalism is just when someone sits on their ass and collects dividends while other people work.
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thanks. is the nomination and voting a built in reddit feature? if so, this sounds like a good time to use it.
No, it just happens in the sub as a normal thread - the mods make a post saying they're looking for more mods, people respond. Some subs do the voting offsite, sometimes the mods just pick someone to add.
Great opportunity for people to create derivative subreddits without oppressive mods.
Hopefully the whole thing implodes and we go back to specific message boards. HN would hardly be better if random people mostly interested in cooking or martial arts were putting in their two cents here. I really can't think of any subject that is better on Reddit than it was on an old message forum that was killed off by these giant platforms. Compare any subreddit about psytrance or trance music to the corpse of fo…
I 100% agree. Not just Reddit, but Facebook too. The days of phpBB and vBulletin are sadly over though.
And while I know it’s still around, it’s not the same—I miss slashdot.
Uh. I’m not really following this. But are people moving to other services? If you’re just going dark Reddit will know you’ll eventually cave in. Blackouts feel like you’re saying “we love you so please change”. I’d be happy to see people use other services. I’d appreciate the decentralisation.