In a comment shared by r/Apple moderator @aaronp613, Reddit cited its Moderator Code of Conduct and said that it has a duty to keep communities “relied upon by thousands or even millions of users” operational. Mods who do not agree to reopen subreddits that have gone private will be removed.
If a moderator team unanimously decides to stop moderating, we will invite new, active moderators to keep these spaces open and accessible to users. If there is no consensus, but at least one mod wants to keep the community going, we will respect their decisions and remove those who no longer want to moderate from the mod team.
Mods don’t have a duty to do shit, Reddit doesn’t pay them anything, doesn’t even offer premium at a discount or anything.
Maybe if Reddit was more concerned with not creating a toxic hellspace, they wouldn’t need to rely on volunteers to keep their billion dollar corporation running smoothly. Everything about this pisses me off so fucking bad.
Where do they get off saying mods have a DUTY to them, when they LITERALLY are volunteers and reddit gives them nothing.
And maybe if Reddit wasn’t killing third party mod tools…like the moderation still isn’t gonna be the same no matter how many people you appoint bc you killed the tools that made it possible.
Reddit doesn’t pay them anything, doesn’t even offer premium at a discount or anything.
But it offers them a tiny bit of power, via being a internet janitor. I’m certain that there’s a decent amount of people who will jump at the opportunity to become a moderator of a large subreddit. They are obviously the worst people to wield such power - just like anyone in the real world who seeks power is least likely to use it for good.
Moderation will be low quality, but it will remove spam. As long as the content mill keeps running all is fine. Users of the tiktokified official Reddit app won’t even notice a thing.
If your looking to become a mod for power, sorry the position is not for you
At least it’ll fall apart entirely once they appoint kids who desperately want to be Reddit mods after no one else will do it. If they want to run every subreddit themselves, they can, but it will only hurt them immensely.
Remember guys, best thing you can do to get people to move off of reddit is to post more on Lemmy and Kbin
For communities you want but don’t exist on either of them yet, make it! And crosspost to other comms so people know it exists!
Wow! So Reddit is actively stealing the work of creators. It’s even worse than I had imagined. I am very glad that I have left the platform now!
Imagine trying to go public and creating this firestorm right before doing it. Complete incompetence.
Imagine being the only mod in a large subreddit, leading an army of untrained recruits. What does that mean for the health of that community? The quality of the subjects and posts isn’t going to be very good, particularly if people start birigading or something.
They are getting rid of their best volunteers.
They don’t care, they just want the community to be open so that they can have the most content the users can scroll through while seeing their precious ads.
Value of the content doesn’t really matter i guess…
If your platform depends on the labor of unpaid volunteers, threatening them is not only super shitty, it’s also generally a really bad idea
Fuck /u/spez
They’re digging their own graves.
Diggit
I don’t get why mods haven’t at least made sticky threads in every sub where they simply ask users to use uBlock Origin to block all Reddit ads and to check out backup communities on Lemmy?
and to check out backup communities on Lemmy?
I asked a few subs why they didn’t just point people to a clone community on Lemmy during the blackout. They said that Lemmy was too confusing for new users.
…sounds like a load of bs to me. I think the mods just like the way reddit works from the modding end and/or don’t want to lose their communities to other mods. Kind of immature if that’s the case, but I wouldn’t be surprised.
that was faster than I expected tbh
what this tells me is that it’s finally having a financial impact
Strikes work.
Breaking strikes also works, unfortunately. Look at Air Traffic Controllers with Reagan, or the Pinkertons back in the late 19th century. If there’s a way to force compliance, they will. And there is.
or the Pinkertons back in the late 19th century
The Pinkertons are still around, and still being engaged by companies. Just a few months ago Wizards of the Coast (publishers of Magic the Gathering and Dungeons & Dragons) were caught using them to intimidate someone who had accidentally-but-legally received unreleased Magic cards into handing over the property.
Difference here is, I don’t rely on reddit for income and have nothing to lose. They do.
Yeah, but it will cost them money that they’re not going to earn back.
It will prevent a catastrophic exodus like Digg experienced. Any amount spent it well worth it.
I think they seriously overestimate how many users are going to really remain. Users go where the content is. Users will use 2 applications if the content is in 2 places. Once you get to that point reddit has nothing to offer. This will end badly for them.
I do think you’re being a tad optimistic – many users of subs like /r/memes will probably keep chugging along and accept their reddit overlords indefinitely. But as long as enough power users leave such that the content feels noticably worse, I think reddit will still feel the hurt
Let them do it, only pushes more people to alternatives.
It might push more power users away. It won’t push away the teeming masses.
Quality will suffer, but they’ll keep their traffic.
If you strike us down we will become more powerful than you can imagine…
Classic strikebusting. “Oh you won’t work for an increasingly bad shake? Guess I’ll put these scabs in place instead.”
We were all expecting that, I’m surprised that they didn’t do it earlier.
Well, there you have it. The “we only care about money” we were waiting for /s. Expect changes to increase profit to affect users even more than this, reddit as we knew it is dead
Whatever this turns out to be it will establish a precedent that all social media conglomerates will set the bar at.
