It’s going to be a lot harder to pull off massive protests.

It’s not like they couldn’t put a stop to blackouts before, as seen with the third-party app fiasco, but Reddit has now made that tactic entirely impossible. Mods will now need to get permission from Reddit admins before they can make a sub private. Makes me wonder if they’re about to do something controversial again soon.

  • garrett@infosec.pubEnglish
    4·
    2 months ago

    I truly don’t understand how anyone does the free work for a corporation to moderate a subreddit. Steps like this seem to treat them like employees and they’ll largely just chug along with it for… what? Notoriety?

    • Swallowtail@beehaw.org
      3·
      2 months ago

      I remember wanting to be a forum mod when I was like 15 and thought that it would make me cool on the forum. As a grown adult… no way. I am so busy between work, grad school, and my personal life, I have no time for such silliness. I have a lot of respect for mods that donate their own time to run communities.

      • garrett@infosec.pubEnglish
        1·
        2 months ago

        I appreciate anyone working on an actual community but doing the service of not just giving free content but free curation to a corporation seems unreal. Plus, I’m a grown adult. I don’t have the time to do all that much lol

  • TehPers@beehaw.orgEnglish
    4·
    2 months ago

    Reddit makes an anti-user change. In other news, grass is green.

    I haven’t been on the site in over a year and nothing since then has convinced me to go back. Maybe I’m lucky that I’m not in any Reddit-only communities, but it could also just be that I treat those communities as though they don’t exist and never had a reason to join one as a result.

  • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
    3·
    2 months ago

    We have a responsibility to protect Reddit and ensure its long-term health, and we cannot allow actions that deliberately cause harm.

    Truly, a harm for the platform when the moderators of /r/assesgonewild take their subreddit private for a week in protest. So far up their asses.

    Read: “Our users got so pissed at us that it jeopardized our IPO. Now it could actually effect something like our stock price, so fuck 'em”. Seriously people, just leave

  • araneae@beehaw.org
    3·
    2 months ago

    Oh so its now completely impossible to stop a brigade by shuttering a subreddit for a day or two without begging some pea brain Reddit stooge. That won’t lead to anything putrid happening to small and medium subreddits on a regular basis I hope.

    • Chahk@beehaw.org
      2·
      2 months ago

      In every community, there is always another power-hungry asshole ready to jump on the opportunity to have a tiny bit of control over somebody else.

      Mods not modding is nothing new to reddit. The only impact they would feel is if users stopped posting. I don’t see that happening though.

    • /home/pineapplelover@lemm.ee
      1·
      2 months ago

      That’s what we tried during fuck spez protests. Spez kicked the mods off and enacted new ones. Which makes mods shitty or kicks good mods out and enact shitty mods.

  • Suppoze@beehaw.org
    1·
    2 months ago

    What remains as methods of protest after this? I wonder what would happen to a subreddit if it’s moderators would simply stop moderating all together…

    But I guess admins could always make someone a moderator, there’s always someone willing to have a power trip.

    • davehtaylor@beehaw.org
      4·
      2 months ago

      What remains as methods of protest after this?

      Deleting your account and leaving the site. Reddit clearly doesn’t care about the users, and hasn’t for a very, very long time. Remaining there justifies their actions.

      • Lad@reddthat.com
        4·
        2 months ago

        I remember a couple of people on Reddit smugly saying I’d be back soon after I talked about leaving during the third party app shitshow.

        I’ve never went back, so eat a bag of dicks random Reddit users!

        • Megaman_EXE@beehaw.org
          1·
          2 months ago

          Same. There’s been a few times I’ve needed info from reddit subs, but I’ve never interacted since. I miss some of the activity in the more niche subreddits, but I’m more productive with my time now so I guess that’s good lol

    • Megaman_EXE@beehaw.org
      1·
      2 months ago

      If I’m recalling correctly, a couple of the larger subs had mods stop completely, and reddit just replaced them with power mods

      • Norah - She/They@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        3·
        2 months ago

        That wasn’t just larger subs. They changed the rules for requesting a takeover of a sub, and there are hundreds of subs it affected. There are even cases of it being really dangerous, there’s a shroom hunting sub that is poorly moderated and has had life-threatening advice left up.