However, late last night, shortly before midnight (CEST), Reddit admins posted the following update publicly:
“If a moderator team unanimously decides to stop moderating, we will invite new, active moderators to keep these spaces open and accessible to users. If there is no consensus, but at least one mod who wants to keep the community going, we will respect their decisions and remove those who no longer want to moderate from the mod team.”
Shortly thereafter, Reddit began sending out messages to mod teams, containing the following:
“If there are mods here who are willing to work towards reopening this community, we are willing to work with you to process a Top Mod Removal request or reorder the mod team to achieve this goal if mods higher up the list are hindering reopening. We would handle this request and any retaliation attempts here in this modmail chain immediately”.
Wow I can't believe the private company who owns that website actually doesn't give a shit about community curation. I thought they would just give us servers because they love free speech and creative posting.
Unfortunately I think we'll see a "boomerfication" like what happened to Facebook and Twitter. Fuck I wish those websites would just die though.
Nah we'll see the opposite. Reddit wants that TikTok demographic. Do you think boomers give a shit about customising their Reddit snoo character or dank memes?
I meant boomerfication in general, not the actual boomers taking over Reddit. The boomers love Facebook too much. I think the treat driven gen X demographic will be the soul of reddit, 40 year old guys dying to show off their stuff like they're a Bowerbird courting a mate.
What caught my attention was the sheer amount of subreddits just geared around consumer goods. Very cool you bought a $200 pen and iridescent ink. Oh that's the last one you needed to complete your collection of grails, interesting. When are you going to start practicing calligraphy, never?
Isn't that the dream of everyone here, in both senses of the phrase "finish Capital"?
I think the treat driven gen X demographic will be the soul of reddit
:astronaut-1:
I must apologize, I have two older brothers born 80 & 83 who despise the millennial tag and do the thing where they call themselves xennials. It's created a personal block where I only see 85-95 as millennial and the early 80's babies can be a fractured third thing if they please.
I'm in that same boat. I do identify far more as a millennial though, because I got started on my postsecondary education fairly late, got started on the internet quite early, and didn't have any elder gen-X cousins as cultural influences.
Like you two have said my bros call themselves Xennials because they avoided all the economic ramifications. They got degrees just before the recession so they got hired as cheap replacements for the experienced staff being laid off. They were able to start investing and building home equity while I had to struggle both academically and professionally through my 20's.
same and same. i think it was being shit broke during my 20s, doing college ~10 years "late" (post-GFC), developing a solidly millennial cohort, and generally being more discerning about being online.
the Xers and cuspers haven't taken a class about anything since ~2000, rarely realize how bad climate destabilization is, and many are at this point of careerist nihilism & tunnel vision because they think they're all going to be allowed to retire with the brass ring if they don't make waves. they don't want to know about empire or fast fashion or coltan mining. they're too bought in.
i'm just out here like a guy wearing a sandwich board that says, "THE SHOW IS OVER" and let me tell you, they are NOT making eye contact.
i’m just out here like a guy wearing a sandwich board that says, “THE SHOW IS OVER” and let me tell you, they are NOT making eye contact.
I work with a whole bunch of people like this. They think that late-summer weather with almost no rain in the southern Ontario climate in fucking spring is a good thing. The ones that think climate change is possibly real think it's decades off from causing devastating problems. They think that the wildfires this spring across the country are "bad luck", and not the result of bone-dry forests that had almost no snowfall and high temperatures. It drives me crazy.
Boomers fucking love avatar dress up lol.
The snoos are just off brand minions now.
i hope they do this plus the elections for mods because it would kill the site faster
honestly. at this point I'm rooting for every bad decision just so I can stop seeing news about reddit
a big fuck you to BelleAriel
Pissing myself laughing. We purged her from two subs during infighting. She is a fucking awful person and she will lie lie lie if she has to.
I've asked you
TWO
Extremely clear questions.
ONE:
CAN YOU ABIDE BY OUR COMMUNITY'S RULES?
and
TWO:
WERE YOU TRYING TO CALL ME A LIAR?
These are questions I asked YOU.
You can answer them -- or not.
And you can participate here.
Or not.
The moderation team of r/ContraPoints is the moderation team of r/ContraPoints.
YOU are NOT on it.
Before 35 minutes ago, you'd never participated in our community.
How we run our community is our business, and the business of the people who participate here in good faith.
We don't allow disrespect; We don't allow verbal or emotional abuse; We don't allow people to brigade our subreddit and post off-topic posts and metadrama.
What YOU think you know about our moderation team is informed solely by third-hand hearsay and screenshots released by someone abusing their position, edited and therefore cherry picked to support a narrative.
That narrative is abusive.
It will not be allowed.
No one will be allowed to come here and back-seat run our subreddit, or light torches and brandish pitchforks.
So now,
THREE Questions:
The first two still must be answered,
and
AM I PERFECTLY CLEAR THAT YOU ARE NOT A MODERATOR OF THIS SUBREDDIT?
Hate to burst your bubble, but I'm pretty sure this is a Bardfinn classic
Didn't we offer to lifeboat a sub she (belleariel) was a mod of at one point? I remember being pretty angry about it lol.
i agree fuck those powermods they can go die, but it will only get worse now with more lib censorship lol
OK if the data preservation argument against this doesn't work on you how about the "this would be trivially easy for Spez to deal with" argument?
Because the KotakuInAction head mod tried this when he realized the monster he created and the admins just restored it with different mods lol.
I just checked around for an option and there isn't one. Taking it private is the most you can do.
There are mixed messages on this.
And he's technically correct. By finding even one person willing to mod a sub and re open it, technically he is respecting someone's opinion to re open it!
lmao they invite mods to a talk but then just turn around and try to find scabs in the mod teams instead.
If any reddit mods are here for some reason; just update your subreddit's rules to ban effectively all posts. If you want to be redditty about it, autoban anyone who posts anything other than "fuck Spez."
Make them contort the rules again, in case anyone watching needs more examples to understand how this works. And also leave a giant mess in your wake.
There was also /r/animetitties that was just serious actual world politics news
Bold move to set the precedent that you are willing to dial up the pressure on people voicing their opinion but coordinate with Nazis to protect their speech
I hope someone games the whole thing to shit on a major brand like Apple. :garf-troll:
This could have all been avoided if they had been more transparent and told third parties that they have to serve reddit ads too. Now they're scared, oh they're scared.
