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Steve Huffman said he has planned to change the site’s rules so that users had the power to vote out moderators, following a 48-hour protest blackout.
Bored Stonerian ( @Gigate@sopuli.xyz ) 17•1 year agoReddit gonna be Reichit pretty soon.
Hovenko ( @Hovenko@kbin.social ) 11•1 year agoModerators should just stop being moderators and leave and let the shitposts and nsfw stuff untouched. Maybe then that mad little guy realizes how much free work is he leeching off.
pilvlp ( @pilvlp@kbin.social ) 2•1 year agoExactly. They should turn off all moderation and then spam their own subs with bot BS.
hawdini ( @hawdini@kbin.social ) 8•1 year agoSo basically, we can now vote out the mods and post what we want on subreddits? And if the new mods don’t like what we post, we vote them out too? That sounds like a disaster waiting to happen.
Anomander ( @Anomander@kbin.social ) 5•1 year agoSite Admin have opposed “vote out” mechanics since debuting subreddits, entirely in the understanding that as bad as the current system is - reducing it to rank populism would be worse and far easier for malicious actors to exploit. I vague recall Spez being vocal about that issue, years ago - how convenient he forgets all those opinions once it doesn’t serve Reddit’s interests to just ignore flaws in their mod system.
The best irony in all this is that he’s determined that even minority dissent to participation in the protests warrants sweeping changes to facilitate - citing the importance of accommodating those perspectives - but massive dissent against reddit changes is a perspective he’ll do anything to avoid even acknowledging, much less accommodating. Dissent really matters when he agrees with it, and we have a laundry list of excuses for why dissent he doesn’t like simply doesn’t count.
Burndown ( @Burndown@kbin.social ) 2•1 year agor/politics is about to become the first internet civil war.
niktemadur ( @niktemadur@kbin.social ) 7•1 year ago“Any decisions made in this organization are UNILATERAL, and I’m The Boss. So… are you going to be a team player, or what?”
Notice any authoritarian bullying and gaslighting in this sentiment?
EDIT: Maybe that should be…
sO… aRe YoU gOiNg To Be A tEaM pLaYeR, oR wHat?
digitalfreedom ( @digitalfreedom@kbin.social ) 2•1 year ago“That’s not democratic” is one way of putting it
Haan ( @Haan@kbin.social ) 1•1 year agowell he’s not wrong…