In a comment shared by r/Apple moderator @aaronp613, Reddit cited its Moderator Code of Conduct and said that it has a duty to keep communities “relied upon by thousands or even millions of users” operational. Mods who do not agree to reopen subreddits that have gone private will be removed.
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 wants to keep the community going, we will respect their decisions and remove those who no longer want to moderate from the mod team.
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Mods don’t have a duty to do shit, Reddit doesn’t pay them anything, doesn’t even offer premium at a discount or anything.
Maybe if Reddit was more concerned with not creating a toxic hellspace, they wouldn’t need to rely on volunteers to keep their billion dollar corporation running smoothly. Everything about this pisses me off so fucking bad.
Where do they get off saying mods have a DUTY to them, when they LITERALLY are volunteers and reddit gives them nothing.
And maybe if Reddit wasn’t killing third party mod tools…like the moderation still isn’t gonna be the same no matter how many people you appoint bc you killed the tools that made it possible.
Reddit doesn’t pay them anything, doesn’t even offer premium at a discount or anything.
But it offers them a tiny bit of power, via being a internet janitor. I’m certain that there’s a decent amount of people who will jump at the opportunity to become a moderator of a large subreddit. They are obviously the worst people to wield such power - just like anyone in the real world who seeks power is least likely to use it for good.
Moderation will be low quality, but it will remove spam. As long as the content mill keeps running all is fine. Users of the tiktokified official Reddit app won’t even notice a thing.
Let them do it, only pushes more people to alternatives.
It might push more power users away. It won’t push away the teeming masses.
Quality will suffer, but they’ll keep their traffic.
Well, there you have it. The “we only care about money” we were waiting for /s. Expect changes to increase profit to affect users even more than this, reddit as we knew it is dead
Whatever this turns out to be it will establish a precedent that all social media conglomerates will set the bar at.
Imagine being the only mod in a large subreddit, leading an army of untrained recruits. What does that mean for the health of that community? The quality of the subjects and posts isn’t going to be very good, particularly if people start birigading or something.
They are getting rid of their best volunteers.
They’re digging their own graves.
Diggit
Didn’t they already put a scab in r/adviceanimals?
Yes, they installed a new head mod and the new head mod bans anyone who brings it up. The new mod is a moderator of 106 different subreddits.
The funny thing is that many people remaining on reddit have been praising the admins for threatening to remove mods, because they hate the power mods who control all the subs and want to see them removed, but that’s exactly who reddit is using to replace the mods they dislike.No. The short story there was an inactive mod was top mod and came back just to make the whole sub private and got backlash from the most active mod about it. Admins ended up removing the inactive mod. There is additional back and forth between the two that got posted but it basically ends as the one actually doing the work gained full control.
Redditors should scorch earth their content contributions. That way u/spez replacing the mods is only going to result in an open but crippled subreddit.
There are tools to help. The best recommended ones I know of:
A Rust CLI app: https://github.com/andrewbanchich/shreddit/
A JavaScript bookmarklet (that feels a bit like a full browser extension): https://github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite
Used power delete suite last night. Worked like a charm. Sucked scorching my almost 8 year account, but they can eat shit.
I did the same with my two accounts at 7 and 8 years old (neither match this username).
One of them is a novelty account, I wonder if I can sell it 🤔
I’m gonna laugh my ass of in the end of these hostile mod removals, they end up paying them and their now reddit employees with a union…
Imagine your entire website gets moderated for free and you still can’t turn a fucking profit.
No only does it get moderated for free, but the users also provide the content for free - or link to articles that other people have written for free (or at least no cost to you)! Dumbasses have wasted piles of cash creating features like Reddit live, followers, and chat - that no one actually wants. In the meantime, they’ve gotten rid of the employees that were the most visible and valuable to the community (Victoria). What a cluster fuck.
