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

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

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

#53
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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 of the power.

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

#54
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?

Yea this is a surefire way to end up with greedy, power-hungry moderators that have no interest in making the community better.

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

#56
post #11

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Same can be said about how they mods are treating the rest of the sub.

Couldn't agree more. This is a flagrant abuse of power by mods. I hope this is a wake-up call to major companies never to let your employees unionize because the employees don't care about you or your company - they'll kill it just to spite you and then move on to the next company.

What a bullshit take. Employees only tend to unionize when companies don't give a shit about them. Companies that treat employees like people and pay them fairly have much less to worry about

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

#57
post #47
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 have a feeling they won't have a hard time finding deranged weirdos who want to mod and will remove anything that could in any way raise an eyebrow of advertisers/payment processors/etc The worst mods for the community will be the best mods for reddit's bottom line. The power-tripping is payment in itself for those types.

>The power-tripping is payment in itself for those types.

As if the current mods are any different?

Honestly I don't mind this at all. The big subreddits have become so ossified in their power structures, that each community is its' own little fiefdom now. There is massive friction to being able to post anywhere. Reddit would be objectively better with a less heavy handed approach to moderation, and some kind of site-wide formal appeals process that neuters the ability of any individual mod from going on a power trip.

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

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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?

Wouldn’t a properly prompted LLM be an OK mod?

It would, but spez doesn't have OPEX for the GPU hours it'd require. Both for fine-tuning for per-subreddit rules, and running the model itself.

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

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deploying a reddit clone online takes 10 minutes getting 500 million monthly users like Reddit is the hard part

500 million monthly users isn't a community. I certainly don't have any subreddits that are this large nor do I give a shit about how many users are on a particular website. My reddit communities are niche and skill-based. We'll go wherever we go. Oh no! The giant horde of September stays behind on Reddit! Quelle horreur.

The thing is: By being on reddit the barrier to enter a small niche community is low. Having to register with a new account, when maybe the favorite username is taken already is a barrier, even if it takes just few minutes.
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