Things are moving fast again, so this is going to be another quick and dirty post… Reddit is now removing mod teams without any pretense of speaking for mode…
- theory ( @theory@feddit.uk ) 63•1 year ago
Keep digging, spez
- friend_of_satan ( @friend_of_satan@kbin.social ) 43•1 year ago
It’s amazing how many different shovels he is able to come up with.
- ArugulaZ ( @ArugulaZ@kbin.social ) 13•1 year ago
Even Shovel Knight’s going “Daaaamn.”
- ILeftReddit ( @ILeftReddit@kbin.social ) 2•1 year ago
@friend_of_satan I think it has a better meaning if you don’t go the shovel route with that comment, if you know what I mean
- Pilirin ( @Pilirin@kbin.social ) 62•1 year ago
yep, the entire 22-account (i think) team at r/mildlyinteresting got booted about half an hour or so ago and now the sub has an advert to ask for it in redditrequest
- atlasraven31 ( @atlasraven31@lemm.ee ) 3•1 year ago
What happens if you ask to mod it and set it to NSFW again?
- HonorableScythe ( @HonorableScythe@kbin.social ) 31•1 year ago
There’s no way to effectively protest a corporation on its own platform. It controls the platform, it can and will change the rules or enforce them unequally just to shut you up, and there’s nothing you can do about it.
I feel sort of bad for the bootlickers who are trying to take advantage of the situation for their own ends. With the precedents being set, they’re going to have even less authority to run the subs when it’s done and their sucking up will mean nothing.
The only good move is to leave.
- CarbonIceDragon ( @CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social ) 21•1 year ago
I mean, I kinda feel like this is a way to effectively protest, because even if they can heavy handedly force you to shut up, you can at least force them to actually do that. The more visibly reddit tries to stamp out dissent, the more people will notice them doing that, and the more upset those people will be. Unlike the irl equivalent, there are few stakes for most people in being involved in this kind of digital protest. At the worst, you get banned there and move somewhere else, which you probably were going to eventually do anyway if youre angry enough to protest reddit like this.
Doing things that force reddit’s hand, like making subs nsfw, harms them in some way no matter what: either they do nothing, and lose ad revenue and potentially anger people who just wanted their subs to be what they were, or they capitulate, losing them whatever they wanted to do in the first place and showing precedent for the future, or they try to force things back to normal, and fuel the anger against them even further due to people having feeling restricted. It might not kill the site (even digg and tumblr and such still exist, its very hard for a sufficiently big social site to actually die completely), but it can erode its userbase and grow that of competitors, which reduces the potential revenue the site can make.
- Tashlan ( @Tashlan@kbin.social ) 9•1 year ago
Found the person who studied civil disobedience.
I had a teacher who would go to a protest at the School of the Americas annually to get arrested. I didn’t understand what he meant when I was a teenager that when he said the point was to make them arrest you.
- myriad ( @myriad@kbin.social ) 11•1 year ago
At least we can hope that this will severely damage the ipo.
- Adama ( @Adama@kbin.social ) 6•1 year ago
True but they can go anytime. In the meantime they’re making a fuss, keeping the issue alive in the news and making Reddit take action instead of making it easy for them.
E.g. “If you want me gone fire me because I’m not quitting so you can save face.”
- exohuman ( @exohuman@kbin.social ) 24•1 year ago
Wait, so people can post crazy content to those now unmoderated subs? Did they not think this through or do they now have paid moderators?
- Xathonn ( @Xathonn@kbin.social ) 6•1 year ago
Definitely time to try it out. See if the scabs really knew what they signed up for.
- brianshatchet ( @brianshatchet@kbin.social ) 4•1 year ago
No they restricted them to new posts.
- tinyzimmer ( @tinyzimmer@kbin.social ) 21•1 year ago
How far is he willing to take this? I mean AskHistorians hasn’t gone full NSFW yet - but they are in a protest mode. Albeit one that still will end up producing decent content, just less frequently.
- liminis ( @liminis@kbin.social ) 19•1 year ago
The AskHistorians team is the closest thing to irreplaceable, I’d be very surprised if even he’s stupid enough to pick that particular hill to die on.
- Unicron ( @Unicron@kbin.social ) 18•1 year ago
Not a chance. Even though they want to Instagram the shit out of Reddit, the respect for /r/askhistorians is basically universal. It’s THE quality subreddit, without question. No other compares.
- Doomhammer458 ( @Doomhammer458@kbin.social ) 7•1 year ago
I don’t think Reddit cares. People talk about well run subs as good things but reddit admins don’t really see mods as curators they see them as janitors. They don’t like it when mods curate subreddits they want up votes to be the only thing that matters.
I doubt askhistorians really has the numbers (the numbers the imaginary advertiser or investor demands) to do anything to fight back.
they need engagement! Not removed posts and comments! Clickbait and especially ragebait are number makers not these posts with 90 % removed comments.
- tinyzimmer ( @tinyzimmer@kbin.social ) 6•1 year ago
I respectfully disagree. A sub like AskHistorians generates tons of traffic for the site via google searches alone. It’s also got 2 million subscribers that happily remain subscribed for the quality content with all the spam filtered out.
- Doomhammer458 ( @Doomhammer458@kbin.social ) 3•1 year ago
Google hits are probably the least valuable page view. They have killed far bigger subreddits for far dumber reasons. Like AMA. Is history a highly valuable advertising interest? I have no idea but I’ve never seen a history based advertisment.
- abff08f4813c ( @abff08f4813c@kbin.social ) 15•1 year ago
Knew this would happen since before day one … still a shame to see it actually happen though.
- TheDeadGuy ( @TheDeadGuy@kbin.social ) 6•1 year ago
Naw we jumped ship before it sank, this place will only grow and it’s a better direction.
Even if they reversed course I wouldn’t go back- abff08f4813c ( @abff08f4813c@kbin.social ) 4•1 year ago
Me either. Virtually finished wiping my account, just waiting on a sub to go public before deleting.
- ArugulaZ ( @ArugulaZ@kbin.social ) 3•1 year ago
When your ship’s bow has been driven into an iceberg and water is flowing into the hull, there is no longer an option to reverse course. Ask the orchestra to play you a farewell tune, because they’re going down with you.
- ArugulaZ ( @ArugulaZ@kbin.social ) 5•1 year ago
“Damn you, human cattle! You get right back in your stanchions and stand there quietly while we milk you for your precious, precious content!”
- thingsiplay ( @thingsiplay@kbin.social ) 14•1 year ago
But posting NSFW is allowed in Reddit, if the rules of the subreddit allows it. So changing the rules is within the rules.
- wahming ( @wahming@kbin.social ) 18•1 year ago
They are altering the deal. Pray they don’t alter it any further.
Actually, pray they do.
- jargoggles ( @jargoggles@kbin.social ) 13•1 year ago
The beatings will continue until morale improves.
- porkchopsandwich ( @porkchopsandwich@kbin.social ) 12•1 year ago
I remember thinking T_D was crazy for calling out spez. Even when he edited their comments on the database side.
Well, they’re still crazy but they were right about one thing: spez is a clown
- Tashlan ( @Tashlan@kbin.social ) 9•1 year ago
Editing their comments (which was a wave of fuck you spez pings) was a personal tantrum. As a human being, I could sort of get where it would seem mischievous and justified to go and throw it back at someone else. Awful judgment, huge breach of trust, but understandable from the POV of someone who just wants to be petty and immature for a moment. I can relate.
As part of a broad pattern though, he clearly has issues veiling his annoyance and contempt for his own users.
- dan ( @dan@lemm.ee ) 11•1 year ago
It would be a shame if there were an influx of complaints about porn in the official Reddit app in the App/Play store…
- McBinary ( @McBinary@kbin.social ) 4•1 year ago
Not to naysay, but they will just request google take them off like they did the thousands of 1-star reviews they got a couple days ago.
- PelicanPersuader ( @PelicanPersuader@beehaw.org ) 11•1 year ago
All of these were purged. The list is still growing as they’re being reported in the modcoord Discord
r/TIHI r/Celebrities r/interestingasfuck /r/mildlyinteresting r/ShittyLifeProTips r/Self r/IllegalLifeTips
- ArugulaZ ( @ArugulaZ@kbin.social ) 6•1 year ago
Paint Hufferman swings the axe… only to lop off his own wang in the process.
- ppb1701 ( @ppb1701@kbin.social ) 5•1 year ago
@stopthatgirl7 well it was either this or a complete nsfw ban. Reddit wouldn’t needs content, eyeballs and ad friendlY. Besides how dare a user protest/sarcasm 🙄
- Bats ( @Bats@beehaw.org ) 3•1 year ago
Spez, I’m impressed on just how badly you mishandled so many issues in this on the site you help found. It’s incredible…
- TheSaneWriter ( @thesanewriter@vlemmy.net ) 1•1 year ago
Ah yes, I’m sure mass firing mods and replacing them with random assholes will be very good for the Reddit community.
- Shayeta ( @Shayeta@feddit.de ) 2•1 year ago
You’d be surprised how few users can tell the difference between good and mediocre moderation.