I hope it all burns down.
Let’s rename it to Y first
Huffman does love emulating Musk…
I hope they get a slew of new moderators who make every subreddit unbearable by deleting every good post and leaving only bullshit ones.
That has already happened in the last years.
But this time on purpose.
Imagine pissing off your free labour. Spez is a fucking idiot.
People will line up by the thousands to become a new moderator. Reddit will keep their free labour.
Of course they will, and at least 90% of those will stop moderating within a week bcause they have no idea what it entails and just like the sound of having power.
Another 9.99% will push personal agendas, post ads, malware, etc. or a dozen other things that will kill the sub.
In the end they’ll probably get decent moderatos for less than a tenth of those they seek.
That is just wishful thinking. A large number of people on reddit still use it a lot. Enough to not mind sitting there and moderating. If someone stops moderating they know they can be replaced really quickly now.
The amount of people who just want to shit on reddit with their unrealistic expectations is unbelievable lmao
Counterpoint, the quality of moderation was already pretty patchy, and the quality will continue to decrease. The mods who left are the ones with the most integrity. In my opinion, stepping down in protest is a sign of integrity, which is a key trait of a good mod.
The conclusion that the replacements will be worse is just a statistical average taken at face value, so who knows for sure. It isn’t an ironclad conclusion, but I think it’s a bit better than mere wishful thinking.
Let’s say they have lost 50% of the regular contributors (very optimistic), that still leaves thousands of potential mods.
Another mass exodus will only happen if Reddit continues to rock the boat musk fashion, else it will take years for people to move on.
Another mass exodus will only happen if Reddit continues to rock the boat musk fashion
They haven’t taken down old.reddit yet.
People are downvoting you because they’d like to see otherwise, but you’re right. Hell, I’d like to see otherwise, but it’s not gonna happen.
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there’s a lot of people clammering at the opportunity to shape conservations that fit their agenda. at least the cookers in the past were generally laughed out of the room but I’ve seen quite a few make concerted efforts to control certain subs
I mean, they all have positive up votes (could be fake) and plenty of comments…
I would love to see what happens, its psycologically convieniemt to say its good evidence, its honestly a question of percentages. What percent will moderate the hellsite and what percent will be earnist.
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No, more fun-
- Apply as a moderator.
- Make subreddit private again.
- Repeat if you don’t get banned.
I’d be very surprised if the admins DON’T have a Richard Nixonesque “enemies list” that they check before letting new mods join the team. that level of control-freakishness and pettiness is right up their alley.
Edit: missed a word.
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This is the best way because minimal risk and effort for you, and you can always say you didn’t have access to automated tools to do moderation, which is true.
What risk? They take away the mod position you didn’t really want in the first place?
The risk is that they start suing users that act malicious, and this can’t be seen as malicious just incompetent.
Edit: I don’t see users doing nothing as malicious. I’m talking about the one’s breaking stuff being sued.
Suing unpaid volunteers for not working hard enough? Not a lawyer, but surely you can’t use sue an employee for not working hard enough. Just do a really poor job, don’t moderate well. What are they going to argue?
No they will sue the malicious ones not the ones doing nothing.
sue em back if thats the way the wanna play it i think its high time we got the aclu involved if they seem to think their content is theirs— is an image microsofts etc cuz you used one of their programs to draw it? id say it falls more on the previous mods etc is the way to argue this in court now that i think about it why arent people trying to sue reddit more for billions? futhermore i think they are hiding stuff on their end to investors i think its time the sec got wind of this im a counterpuncher and i dont stop until the enemy is doa thats my mentality
Not a bad idea, it requires some organisation and money, it could be done, I’m not sure about this having a legal foot to stand on but someone will know.
Oh yeah. That will go over great
Yeah talk about dumpster fire if they start on that.
I am so tempted to volunteer.
And then immediately go malicious compliance, turning everything NSFW and creating funky rules for whatever subreddit they give me.
- /r/Chrome would be exclusively about chromed-metal-centric DIY projects and car mods, everything else gets deleted and you get banned for repeat offenses.
- /r/therapy would just have a single stickied link to a how-to-delete-your-reddit-data-and-profile guide.
Etc, etc.
Please do it, so many shit moderators like TheYellowRose on reddit suck up mod privileges then destroy subs with their misery
We don’t need no water, let the motherfucker burn.
I find it especially concerning that subreddits dedicated to mental health like r/Anxietyhelp or r/therapy are just thrown into the mix to have some randoms be mods. They could easily come with bad intentions and even well intentioned individuals could inadvertently cause a lot of harm.The job of managing any community dedicated to helping those suffering from mental health issues is by no means an easy task just anyone can do. A lot of knowledge about mental health and certain subtle/not easily recognizable problems (i.e. covert incitement of suicide) is required. This is not something any responsible admin would just give away to just about anyone like this.
And usually the moderators are people who suffer from said mental illnesses, so they know how to manage the community in a way that would be weird for a person who doesn’t suffer from mental illnesses would.
Simply put, a neurodivergent mod is more likely to relate to neurodivergent user than a neurotypical mod would relate to a neurodivergent user.
I agree, a lot of harm could be done if we throw random moderators in these subreddits.
Just like TheYellowRose on reddit. She mods black subs and bans anyone not black lolol
You have a Reddit doesn’t give a fuck, nobody near the top of Reddit actually gives a fuck about us or you or your mental health, or who’s giving you advice for it
nobody near the top
of Redditactually gives a fuck about us or you or your mental health, or who’s giving you advice for it
They haven’t gotten to mine yet (/r/sandals and /r/flipflops). I still have them set as private. The admins won’t be happy with whoever takes over because they will 100% turn them into NSFW fetish subs.
They IP banned me on all my accts for standing up to their BS. Banned accts that have only 1 post. Its insanity over there, seem like a desperate attempt to change the narrative\reinsert control and its working exactly the opposite.
Lol yeah have a look at moderator TheYellowRose, she has an agenda to push and immediately bans and mutes anybody she disagrees with.
I’ve seen post of women asking about hair style advice and she bans them because they are not black enough for that hairstyle lmfao misery needs company, or a subreddit to mod lol
Let me guess someone wanted dreadlocks… Which are Nordic in origin. They are so ignorant but think they are the smartest person in the room. Truly baffling.
I don’t mind the ban in all honesty, well I miss the niche ones that weren’t toxic. They are going to nuke the most active and the site will be an echo chamber of bots and NPCs and more people will walk away.
So I found your comment about dreadlocks being Nordic interesting and looked it up. Wikipedia claims that oldest depictions of dreadlocks date to the Minoan Civilization on Crete. They are also found in Asia and the Americas which could indicate they are a much older (or common) hairstyle. All very interesting!
I fully abandoned /r/skin. It took me years to cut down the skincare spam and scams and quack medicine. Might as well invite the spammers back at this rate. I even turned off automod rules.
/r/oldbabies… I have some ideas for where I’m taking that sub.
3 months ago?
Looks like OP scrolled down a little too far in the user profile. There are several more from the last week, and they’re all downvoted:
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Thank you for your service soldier. 🫡
Hopefully in a camo themed one the entire time. 😂
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My favorite so far is /r/OpenAI, where the moderators locked and deleted the post call and the replies are mostly promises to enable NSFW pics only. 😂 Good mods!
Just wait until they enact the draft.
u/ModCodeOfConduct: “Congratulations, soldier! You’ve been promoted to moderator of r/suicidewatch!”
Recipient: “…But I’m just a 13 year old with depression and anxiety myself! And my account is only 8 days old!”
u/ModCodeOfConduct: “Report for duty right now, slacker! The mod queue is filled up, and you have a job to do!”
Oh man, that’s a huge potential for trolling right there!
Did the mods leave on their own or were they thrown out after the blackout?
I think a bit of both
They IP banned me and my subs were pretty niche and small. This included all my alts that I used for very specific subs (like FO76) to prevent doxing. But I was pretty vocal on their BS and that was that…
No.
It’s only gross because they turn a profit on volunteers.
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r/therapy and r/anxietyhelp
I’m sure this will go well.
Yep, some of these subs require a lot more than just passive moderation. The mods really ought to be qualified to evaluate the advice and support provided by posts and comments. Any joe shmoe is going to have a much harder time understanding when someone is getting bad advice from fake experts. I mean, the two you mentioned are pretty bad, but gods save the souls who are unprepared to moderate r/beardadvice.
Because it could literally be life or death, I wouldn’t put it past them to take a page from the ED warmline and try using bots. It sure worked for NEDA… /s
