alyaza [they/she]Jun 15, 2023

Megathread for Reddit Blackouts and News - Rest of the Week(?)

https://beehaw.org/post/576904

Megathread for Reddit Blackouts and News - Rest of the Week(?) - Beehaw

hey everyone. if you want to post links or discuss the Reddit blackout, its aftermath, and what’s happening going forward, please localize it to this thread in order to keep things tidy! thanks! we’ll see if we need to cycle the thread again before the end of this week, but i don’t know that we’ll need to

Show threadHeliumJun 15, 2023
Just wondering how long it takes til Reddit strips mods and forcibly reopens certain protesting subs
Show threadnyankas

I would honestly love to see that. It would make their situation so much worse. They rely on people moderating subs voluntarily. They don't have the manpower to do it themselves. The subs would probably get flooded with spam and NSFW content. And if there's one thing advertisers hate more than the current blackout, it's their ads being displayed between questionable porn.

So if reddit really did this, I wouldn't count it as a loss for the protesters. Instead, I would go get some popcorn.

Jun 15, 2023 at 7:16pmWeb
Show thread00Jun 15, 2023
Absolutely. And even if people stepped up, theres a ton of institutional knowledge that they would loose. This might even lead to some of the people that stepped up quitting, making the situation even worse.