Dare Obasanjo

Is anyone else 100% confident that if any popular subreddits stay dark for over a week that Reddit admins will just hijack it from the moderators and make it public?

They’ve shown they don’t care about the moderators and community enough that this seems like a logical next step.

Jun 14, 2023 at 3:50pmWeb
Show thread⁂ Fish Id WardrobeJun 14, 2023
@carnage4life Haven't they taken over subreddits before?
Show threadtriswebJun 14, 2023
@carnage4life yeah we're worried about this in our group. But we're sticking to it. I've modded this particular sub for over ten years, it's time. Nothing to lose.
Show threadJerome (He/Him)Jun 14, 2023
@carnage4life I want them to. The moment they start messing with mods directly is when we get Digg 3.0.
Show threadRileyJun 14, 2023
@carnage4life Seems like it's already happening: https://famichiki.jp/@Tsutsuku/110537730270070245
Tsutsuku (he/they) (@[email protected])

#redditmigration #reddit One of my friends is a mod of a very large subreddit that went private for the blackout. Last night she received a message saying that she had been stripped of her moderator rights and the subreddit was taken public again. To be very clear, the subreddit members had specifically voted in favor of going private. It seems like reddit will stoop lower and lower to try and break the blackout. I'm seething.

Famichiki
Show threadMatt CaseyJun 14, 2023
@riley @carnage4life it's not clear if that was done by Reddit or other mods (discussed later in the thread)
Show threadRileyJun 14, 2023
@mattcasey @carnage4life good point. Still, I wouldn't put it past Reddit to start doing that anyway.
Show threadMatt CaseyJun 14, 2023
@riley @carnage4life oh yeah absolutely
Show threadCodhisattvaJun 14, 2023
@carnage4life wouldn’t that effectively end moderation? Seems like consequences for Reddit are high.
Show threadFeralRobotsJun 14, 2023
@carnage4life I think the only questions are where they put the magic number & whether they try to backchannel a threat beforehand. But that happening does seem a solid certainty to me.
Show threadexcited for the mastodon riseJun 14, 2023
@carnage4life saw somewhere else this morning that this was already happening
Show threadJoey Gibson Jun 14, 2023
@carnage4life They 100% will add their own moderators and take them over.
Show threadJose GutierrezJun 14, 2023
@carnage4life “it” may pass but I won’t be there to see it, deleted my account of well over a decade.
Show threadMike SchnierJun 14, 2023
@carnage4life Reddit taking on the labour of moderating their most popular communities seems like the opposite of cutting costs.
Show threadTim DannerJun 14, 2023
@carnage4life Not 100%, but seems more likely than not. But what would be the quit rate of volunteer mods then? Probably >50%. That's many thousands of mods to replace.
Show threadMike PerhamJun 14, 2023
@carnage4life yep. And with no moderation, the nazis arrive.
Show threadziggyJun 14, 2023
@carnage4life Of course they will do that (AFAIK they _are_ already doing it). Reminder: people are bad at judging / estimating / understanding second-order effects. From experience, its especially true for most managers.
Show threadPhillip of MastodonJun 14, 2023

@carnage4life I’d say that’s part of the design of the action; it damages Reddit’s brand as a high-quality engagement magnet and content generator.

They won’t be the first tenants to trash the place when the landlord doubles the rent.

Show threadJonathan JoelsonJun 14, 2023
@carnage4life Of course. I guess the question is whether Reddit will still be any good if all of the experienced mods are gone.