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Subs: We're gonna strike!!!
Admins: until we change our mind?
Subs: oh, just for two days. We don't really care enough to actually give up Reddit
Admins: oh ok have fun
Subs: oh, just for two days. We don’t
really care enough to actually give up Redditwant to lose control over these subredditsSo many subreddits are just griftcenters for the mods
So, let's say you moderate a subreddit about Thinkpad laptops, or trading cards, or anything else. As the moderator, you can put links to vendors in the sidebar. You can auto hide any comment naming a competitor, or only prune positive reviews of a competing vendor. I'm sure a lot of mods get paid to do this, but plenty are also just the owner of a vendor who represents themselves on Reddit as a neutral third party.
Here's a nyt article on the wallstreetbets mods trying to get paid out in a movie deal
Reddit moderators who run communities centered around products are often approached by the corporations who sell those products with offers of employment/free product/preferential treatment in exchange for moderating those communities in a way that maintains the image of the product.
Consequences of lib brain. Strikes are performative as opposed to a method to actually apply pressure.
Yeah, Reddit set it up so that any sub which is inactive for more than 48 hours can have new mods picked for it by the administration. Nothing short of the site going offline would stop the grind.
Whatif they just go inactive for 47 hours back up and then back down
Then there would be at hour 49 be announcements that to combat abuse of mod systems new mods are created and the accounts of the culpable be banned.
This is a likely option if you hold political power, which for reddit stems from control over the servers via legal rights enforced by lawyers and police forces in the US.
of course it will, the big subs that are participating have set an end date for the "protest" whether their demands are met or not
it's a liberal's idea of a strike, but worse because it's fucking online lmaoI thought most of the subs participating switched to indefinite specifically because of this? or is this less common than I thought?
This isn't even his opinion, he's literally pointing out that they specifically said the "protest" would last for a set period and after that it stops and goes back to normal
Literally doing nothing at all
/r/videos and /r/music, both huge subreddits, have said they're doing it indefinitely.
Reddit controls the platform and will no doubt just reassign mods at some point.
Possibly, but they'd either have to find new volunteers to manage some of the largest subreddits completely unpaid, or start hiring moderators.
It won't be hard for them to find some mods (who didn't participate) who would jump at the opportunity at the perceived clout and authority they'd get from running a high profile sub.
Is there any possibility we could get someone to infiltrate a possible new group of moderators? I think it would be tough to do unless they had maintained a very polite profile and were very good at opsec, but we've already had discussions in this community about the possibilities to infiltrate existing reddit subs.
they don't even need to infiltrate, those :reddit-logo: main subs are already full of botted posts and the mods never do anything.
What would they do when they get in though? If they do anything unfriendly to advertisers they'll get removed from the position
honestly they don't even need to. Just find someone compliant who runs "/r/video" or "/r/interestingvideos" or "/r/vibeos" and promote them to default sub.
The open contempt they have for the reddit userbase as a whole is kinda admirable ngl
They want to change their userbase from middle aged IT nerds to TikTok kids.
I don't think TikTok kids will want to moderate and curate communities and subreddits for free though. At least not with the current Reddit mod toolset. Especially without third party tools, apps and RES.
So there's just a slight flaw in this plan. No big deal lol.
My oldest kid says it's just 4chan with a cheap coat of paint, and they're not wrong
Well at least it's a step up from their early title as "pedo social media".
Yeah it's seen as a weird nerd site or one step up from 4chan amongst most young people. I don't think any amount of marketing will change that.
Some of them have already opened again after a day. What a joke.
I wish the games industry was so open with their contempt for their customers.
They deserve to be mocked for being so spineless.
I'm sure companies like Blizzard have been eye openers to just how much awful shit they can be a part of without it actually effecting profits. Spez is into cp and fantasizes about owning slaves? People will complain and put on a show but almost none of them are leaving because they're little piggies who need their slop.
I see this take a lot and I dont agree mostly because there's so much fucking knowledge in small hobby subs that would be lost. From an archivist point of view reddit dying would be an apocalypse lol.
We could build a read only archive pretty easily with pushshift data.
I want it to stop being used permanently, I understand the data is valuable
it’s one of the only places you can get semi-objective reviews of certain types of electronics, like music equipment
lol, that's about to change, i'm sure. you think they'd stop at API changes? they're about to bend themselves backwards to maximize that ad revenue, reddit is one of the most primo places to start blatant shilling campaigns.
Agree that reddit is fine for lurking/obtaining obscure information, but I've found engaging with the userbase in any meaningful way to be anywhere from unpleasant to moderately disturbing... these people are mostly the bottom of the barrel once the "we have the same interest... we are the same" mask slips off. A read-only version of the site with upvote/downvote would be strictly better, imo.
Agreed, I have to many niche stuff and ideas stolen from smaller subs, that I have only archived the link to. I would be very tragic to loose it all permanently, even though I hate the redditbrained people.
“I am sorry to say this, but please be mindful of wearing Reddit gear in public,” CEO Steve Huffman says in an internal memo.
Wow, there are actually people out there who would willingly wear R*ddit gear in public?
There's a guy near where I live that has a
KEEP
CALM
AND
CHIVE
ON
sticker on his Jeep.
Twitter has already shown that people will put up with the slop to feed their social media addiction. Another reason why a TikTok ban this far into TikTok's popularity would hardly be enforced because people will find a way to use it. It may have been more doable before 2020.
it would take like twenty minutes to go through all the big subs that went private in protest and un-private them as well as remove all the moderators and replace them with more compliant ones, there was no way this protest would ever make any impact
Redditors were actually genetically engineered to have no spine whatsoever.
I saw this comment on reddit:
"To verify your community's participation indefinitely, until our demands are met"
I agree with the overall sentiment and call to action in this post, but the above line goes against the nature of good faith compromise. Please consider using alternative language.
:wut: what? lmao
I think quite a few subreddits will choose to go private/dark indefinitely in response
That will go well, I'm sure.
How many mods are prepared to moderate while only using official Reddit first party tools and apps? Is it even possible to run large subreddits without bots and the like?
Aren’t most of the popular subreddits controlled by the same cabal of moderators?
Read the full internal memo from Reddit CEO Steve Huffman below:
Hi Snoos,
I guess that's better than calling your employees r*dditors
