Spez said in an interview I saw a few minutes ago that they would not be forcing subs open. Do you mean to tell me Spez -- Steve Huffman, CEO of Reddit -- is a liar? Who woulda thunk it?
You see it's not like that, reddit will authorize new mods and those mods will open the subs back up, see reddit really has not responsibility for what their hand selected mods do.
This strikes me more as "this is literally what the rules say" rather than being targeted at anything specific. It would be insane to start actually ousting mods across the entire site for a couple days of a pre-planned, short-lived blackout. The community already seems to be angrily demanding the mods reopen, and most have reopened anyway, so there is nothing Reddit admins actually have to do.
really? i was part of the biggest wrestling forum on the planet and that's gone, possibly for good. that's a big deal for a niche interest but everyone i've seen or interacted with is fine migrating to discord and the kbin. the only issue is what to do about the archive.
Meh. Anyone who continues to use reddit and browse those communities, many of which voted to go dark in the first place, deserves whatever reddit serves them.
As much as the thought may be comforting, it might take a long time for the site to really go to shit, if it will ever. Most likely, not a lot would change
I think a lot will change but I agree with you for the site staying relevant for many more years. It will just not be as good as it once was (and I say that with a 14 years old reddit account). It has been slowly going down for a long time, now there is a quick mini downfall but business will continue as usual until thy've squished all the money they could get out of it. And then it dies.
This is a balanced take. Reddit probably is ok with new front page subs taking over. I guess newer users who don't care about 3rd party apps will take over as core users.
Honestly the best move now is to overwrite all your comments with replies from chatgpt, since AI's hate feeding from other AI answers. It's like poisoning the well.
Even if there is no backstabbing, they'll depose all of the admins. Especially those who have lost their interest in moderating... And no pesky popular opinion will stop them from keeping their platform active and fun for everybody...
This is probably true. The front page is not barren, there's plenty of users being active. The subs I frequented are still dark so there's nothing for me, but it's clear that Reddit isn't going to start begging for us back yet.
So the admins that were okay with u/awkwardtheturtle being a powermod are now just all of a sudden serious about quickly enforcing rules against protesting mods?
Reddit acting as it they made these communities themselves, not that those mods came up with the concepts and then nurtured those communities over years
We regularly enforce our subreddit and moderator-level rules. As you point out, this means that we have policies and processes in place that address inactive moderation (Rule 4). . . .
Ohhhh, is that why there's a cabal of power mods, "curated" secondary versions of communities, and why I gave up and restarted one of them over here. It's because we were regularly addressing squatters
@skellener eee, two different things. kbin and the fedisomethingverse is a different thing. besides it doesn't have r/sevenseaslinuxisos. Yet. or r/worldnews (anime titties).
subs with a very specific culture and ruleset are about to go completely to shit. I cannot imagine staff moderators know anything about the sub, the topic, the sub's history, and it's users, and why previous mods established particular rules or customs over the years. reddit is dead lol.
pretty much called that when the blackout first started. reddit isn't going to just let their company sink. they'll forcefully remove mods. that isn't even the most unethical thing they've done over the years.
Color me shocked </s> downplaying the blackout at first, now that it's shown to not just be a 48hr thing, they are trying to force the mods hands to reopen. And if they don't reopen, then they will force them to reopen by replacing the mod team. This should all be documented from every mod team that has been threatened and their private notices should reflect the threats Reddit is giving them.
I feel like vandalism and squatting are 2/3 of their holy trinity of sub closure,along with brigading. It was always going downhill(joined 11 yes ago) and people were griping then about the same things they do now. 2016 however,it went over a cliff,with sub's shut down left and right. And they claimed those same 3 reasons back then.
hoping they don't remove me. i temporary privated my sub for mental health reasons because people were getting mad at me for joining the protest when i was opening back up
i made my sub during a very rough time in my life and i'd rather not lose it. i've been thinking about alternate ways of protesting but idk right now.
@tacticaltweaker it said there was an option for some mods to return who were willing to moderate. I wonder if they could come back as saboteurs. Is there an option to set all new posts as "require approval before showing?" They could just be really slow at approving new posts. It could extend things at least a few days.
@tacticaltweaker so in other words they are a company and it's electronic private property, if a bunch of people leave. They'll look for or promote new people. Meh, that's business...i don't get get how a single app can cause so much drama.
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