[HN Gopher] Reddit Threatens to Remove Moderators from Subreddit...
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Reddit Threatens to Remove Moderators from Subreddits Continuing
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Author : stalfosknight
Score : 69 points
Date : 2023-06-15 22:38 UTC (21 minutes ago)
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| Fauntleroy wrote:
| The argument for leaving Reddit for good improves daily.
| flutas wrote:
| Ah, the rare triple down.
|
| Funnily enough, the whole thing was posted because a mod of a
| dead-ish sub (last post was a week ago, 9 posts including one
| about shutting down in the last month) was complaining that it
| was "clearly harming the community."
| ardit33 wrote:
| Sorry... but this was handled very poorly by reddit and its CEO.
|
| Should have just disabled the 'go private' option. A subreddit,
| is not 'owned' or property of a moderator.
|
| Eg, https://www.reddit.com/r/Brooklyn/, should not be own by one
| person that decides what to do. The questions and answers are
| made by common people that want to see their content that they
| posted into the subreddit. They are not property of some
| anonymous mod/editor but belong to the community.
|
| As a user of reddit, my relationship is with reddit and not some
| primadona mod who decides to deprive the community out of vital
| information.
| yk wrote:
| Thing is, I am much more loyal to the mods of my favorite subs,
| then I'm to reddit. And my guess is, that is the case with a lot
| of the power users.
| rychco wrote:
| * * *
| wilg wrote:
| The only way this is fair is if they just end private subreddits
| entirely. Otherwise the rationale is very thin.
| Havoc wrote:
| Ah the classic beatings will continue until morale improves
| approach.
|
| Starting to think Reddit leadership is genuinely not all that
| sharp
| voisin wrote:
| Remove them all the way to Lemmy.
| donutshop wrote:
| What's the end game here for reddit? There's no way this would
| end well.
| satellites wrote:
| 1. Replace the protesting mods with new ones who don't care
| about 3rd party apps
|
| 2. Continue making Reddit more addictive and user-hostile,
| attracting casual browsers and alienating super users (who they
| don't care about anyway)
|
| 3. Cash checks from advertisers and VCs who like the new
| strategy
|
| 4. IPO
|
| 5. Eventually lose relevance and get replaced by the next
| fledgling community forum site before that, too, gets hollowed
| out by VC money
| FormerBandmate wrote:
| They remove the moderators and replace them with different
| moderator, then hope that people don't care and stay on the
| site like what happened with Twitter. It could happen, the main
| Reddit alternatives seem to be actively trying to keep most
| users out of the site with archaic interfaces and site
| owner/moderator drama
| bombcar wrote:
| Some small percentage of Reddit mods and users quit in disgust,
| some come back, and the rest of the normies hang around until
| it inevitably dies post-IPO.
| secondcoming wrote:
| I honestly don't think this will affect reddit that much.
|
| I find the whole thing quite annoying, to be honest, and I
| imagine I'm not alone.
|
| Unhappy mods are free to leave, there's no need to pull the rug
| from under everyone else who doesn't care.
|
| I don't need yet another thing to log in to.
|
| I'll only stop using reddit if they get rid of old.reddit.com.
| NoMoreNicksLeft wrote:
| What would be a "not well ending"?
|
| This is like a farmer's livestock protesting. At best when the
| hogs are marching around with their picket signs it's
| irritating. Most of the time it's just comical. By the end of
| the week, they'll still be pork chops.
|
| The last 10 years of reddit history has been the mods teaching
| everyone that they're not special and no one will miss them.
| Now that the admins have turned around and say that the same
| rule still applies to the mods and even "everyone as a
| whole"... people are shaking they're heads and whining "no,
| you're wrong, we are important".
|
| But the reddit IPO will go through, spez will be a billionaire,
| and a bunch of strangers will be moderating that subreddit you
| thought was so awesome. Which will be full of cat pictures and
| facebook memes, and the comments will be five thousand deep
| nested reply chains of bad pop culture jokes.
| iguana_lawyer wrote:
| Why does it need to end well?
| clnq wrote:
| What do you mean? How can this end poorly? Most people browsing
| Reddit are addicted with no viable substitutes. Breaking their
| addiction through continued blackouts would end badly.
| Replacing some mods no user cares about will hardly have an
| impact.
|
| Lets be realistic.
| spondylosaurus wrote:
| Replacing these volunteer moderators with paid moderators is
| obviously not in the cards, which can only mean Reddit wants
| to replace these volunteer moderators with other volunteer
| moderators. Assuming anyone volunteers in the first place.
|
| Given that moderation is a thankless (and, in this case,
| unpaid) job, do you really think that many people with good
| intentions are stepping forward to take on that
| responsibility? Or is Reddit accidentally gonna recruit a
| bunch of trolls who turn r/apple into a hentai and piracy
| forum?
| ChildOfChaos wrote:
| Sounds good, they should ban the moderators that are ruining the
| communities.
| gareth_untether wrote:
| Another day and another nail in another awesome online community
| that has terrible leadership. Where will the communities move to?
| What new areas of the Internet will be created?
| shivy wrote:
| https://kbin.social is a great alternative from what I can see.
| https://kbin.social/m/apple is already thriving, as is
| https://kbin.social/m/programming
| simlevesque wrote:
| > https://kbin.social/m/apple is already thriving
|
| There were 2 posts in the last 24 hours. It's not thriving by
| any measure.
| brucethemoose2 wrote:
| Discord, where everything will be siloed off and then
| enshittified again :(
| jpcfl wrote:
| This reminds me of the Great Digg Migration.
|
| If there was ever a time to promote Mastadon, it's now.
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