Opinion: anyone who takes over a sub reddit because original mods closed it in protest, should face community outrage
We should not let people take advantage of the situation to back stab strikers. We should discourage this behavior, and show anyone who does this that it will not be taken kindly.
If this happens to any sub reddit you know, comment it here so we can be aware of it.
They should. Crossing the virtual picket line should be seen as a bad move. Unfortunately, many of these predditors don't care. They want to browse their cool video game community and get the updoots.
Eh, whoever takes up that offer is going to learn in short order why the protest is happening in the first place. As will the rest of the community once the content quality drops into the gutter because the would-be replacement mods can't keep up with getting rid of the garbage. You try moderating a subreddit of any significant size with gimped moderation tools. If anything, this would accelerate Reddit's fall into irrelevance as users start looking elsewhere for a place that isn't overrun by spambots of various flavors.
From my perspective, I've basically left Reddit. Hypothetically, I 100% agree with you, but from a practical standpoint, I don't really care what happens over there.
You're going to see the pendulum swing back in the other direction. People who remain on reddit will be all in favor of reopening, and they'll start pushing an anti-mod circlejerk. Even users who had energy for two days worth of protest will get bored and decide they want everything back. People will blame the protest for being annoying, failing to understand that protest can't be effective if it doesn't agitate.
how about if someone came here and squatted a community because they are angry at the world and can't handle getting banned? i rekon just point and laugh - it's their problem now, the poor fucker
If that happens, a lot of quality people leave the site, content suffers, more people leave, death spiral, you're picked up by somebody at a dirt cheap valuation and they gut you for the nostalgia of what your brand used to mean, an expensive trophy because billionaires have the kind of money to play that petty. Meanwhile, new sites take your place and rinse, repeat, basically the history of the internet.
Honestly, leave them, those who are happy to be called worthless, deserve to stay on Reddit, it’s not like the CEO has been silently insulting them, he’s literally taking a press tour telling everyone who will listen just how little he thinks if he’s users.
Whomever stays after that has absolutely no self worth and sees their entire life’s value in Reddit.
Don’t let their meaningless existence have any impact on your life, all you would be doing is encoring them, you’d be giving them the attention they are soo desperately seeking.
I know it’s an unpopular opinion here but most people are not gonna bother with kbin, lemmy or beehaw or what instances are, federated, microblog…. Reddit is not dead until a better, easier more intuitive alternative exists, and this ain’t it