Reddit Admins hand /r/SnackExchange over to a moderator with no experience. Other subreddit moderators fight in comments.

This is hilarious tbh. Please don’t get me wrong, I really feel for the mods who put so much time and energy into the sub (all subs for that matter). It sucks.

But god, watching reddit implode feels so fucking good. Spez is an abrasive asshole and, it turns out, also a moron, and it’s nice to see his web site fall from grace so publicly.

This is why their moderators' best weapon is to not moderate and let all hell break loose. Reddit will then be forced to pull this shit and it'll go to hell fast. It's their best weapon, better than going NSFW or dark in protest. Just silently stop moderating and let Reddit and advertisers notice when they aren't.

His replies to negative feedback is either "deal with it xoxoxo" or "you're right but I don't really care lol".

Something tells me it ain't gonna work.

That dude is pathetic.

lol Reddit’s death has finally started. Can’t wait to see spez’s asswipe shills bring the whole thing down with their incompetence.

EDIT: I went through the subredditdrama post, and looking at some of the comments made me glad I’m leaving that place.

So he scabs as a total noob first time mod, AND his whole plan is rely on bots that won't work in a few days and require govt id to mail someone some chips?

Fucking lulz

Shoutout to the mod who just bailed immediately 😂

I used to love that sub. Not that I ever actually exchanged snacks, but I thought it was cool that random people would just get together and mail snacks from one side of the world to another.

Services like Stripe allow people in over 100 countries to match face to government-issued-ID to prove their identity (at a cost of about $1.50 per verification).

AHAHAHAHAHAHA Are you for real right now?

"Identity theft is not a joke, Jim! Millions of families suffer every year!"

I think those are called death throes.

death throes noun : the violent movements and noises that are sometimes made during passing.

It frustrated me when Reddit made the initial decision to screw over app developers. Having done dev work in the past, I know the time that goes in to them so someone asking for a little money in return is the least we can do. But no, Reddit just say "Screw you guys"!

As if that was not enough, they are now showing that they really don't care about the many moderators that have painstakingly put years of 'free' time in to building these communities, the same communities that are the foundation of Reddit!

I am sure we are going to see a lot more of these admin takeovers in the coming weeks and it is the very reason I am over here and why Lemmy is seeing the incredible growth curve. Long may that continue.

I just deleted my account. Welp that's 15 years gone. Feels good. Tastes like chicken.

Would love a subreddit drama over here lol

Just let it burn down at this point. Shorting this stock is going to be easy easy money

Sounds exactly like the behaviour of a company headed towards an IPO. Keep that dumpster fire burning!

Oof. I read a decent amount of comments, definitely getting shill/snitch/power seeking vibes, add to that the admins...what a shit show

In 3 days when third party apps die it's going to be so fucking funny lmao. Lemmy is gonna explode.

Insult to injury. What a smug usurping little scab.

Does the snack exchange now include gifs of popcorn?

Damn, this subreddit will surely meet it's demise

Having no mod is better than having a bad one

Grabbing popcorn 🍿

I like the new mod's comment about how modding will be easy because of the bots. Lol

Cool, now do AskHistorians

never heard of this sub and it sounds kind of gross just from the name tbh.

i find it hilarious that the new mod wants to implement an elaborate ID system and ??Escrow??. wow. he¹ sounds like he would like to implement the stories told by all the conspiracy people on the sub. maybe he plans to put this on his job application for the gates foundation lololol Sounds like a deeeeeelicious time.

GOOD LUCK FRIEND

1 - do not think it is too far out on a limb to assume male gender in this case.

I've deleted all my content I can across 3 accounts and a decade of posts and comments one thing though I have thousands of coins. I've never bought any before they are all rewards from posts. I kinda want to spend them on something.

I'd like to see about implementing some sort of identity verification service for the sub. I'm an IT engineer/developer, so coding is absolutely my forte... Services like Stripe allow people in over 100 countries to match face to government-issued-ID to prove their identity (at a cost of about $1.50 per verification).

YIKES

WTF is this happy horseshit?

I'd like to see about implementing some sort of identity verification service for the sub.

Let them fight, they might actually learn that being a (good) mod is not a cakewalk.

It would be a shame if people posted about them on linkedin

Pretty much the same thing happened to /r/assholedesign. They made someone that's been inactive for two years the lead mod and they reopened the sub. There's like no chance ppl aren't getting paid to backstab the other mods.