FiendishForkThe Steam subreddit has been forced back open.
HighsightThe community is posting about steam, the water vapor, in retaliation. It's a beautiful thing.
I love malicious compliance.
GeekFTWThis is what I want to see from every subreddit that is forcibly reopened. The admins can try and force mods to 'do their jobs', but they sure as shit can't force what can be/gets posted!
kaduThe issue is some groups of mods are terribly afraid of no longer being mods - for whatever reason - so they don't join these efforts.
MadCybertistI was a mod of a 3m subscriber sub…. I do NOT get why mods would give a shit about being removed. Shits really no fun.
I never moderated anything with 3M... I can only imagine the mod queue haha, but I did moderate one at 500K and I totally agree.
I mean makes sense they might be a little cautious about what they do, cause like if they get removed the people reddit replaces them with aren't gonna let anything supporting the protests go through.
Well, right now they aren't supporting the protests so what's the difference? "Oh we don't want new mods because they won't protest, so we will stop protesting to avoid that!" the only difference is who gets to be called the mod.
AwwabI think they could if they wanted to, I know that some subs actually hide your posts with automod until they get released by the mod team so it stands to reason you could do that on one of the core subs. It wouldn't be fun for the mods and would definitely cause a lot of frustration and issues with people all trying to be the first to post something but then they have to wait 8 hours for a mod to wake up and approve it.
Virgin making the sub about John Oliver vs the chad taking the name of the reddit too seriously
I just posted to the steam sub about how much I love steam turbines
I dunno, I think just remaining closed would have worked better. This will attract additional attention to Reddit. Also, the subreddit wasn't 'forced' back open, the mods just caved under a bit of pressure from the admins (which we don't even know is true. why on earth are they asking the steam subreddit to open back up when there are so many largers subs still private?). Smells like slacktivism to me, and mods who don't want to lose their power. Meh.
XathonnThey sent mail to every moderator of a closed subreddit I think. I wasn't specifically targetted. I doubt reddit would really care if /r/piracy opened back up, but they got the threat mail
I doubt reddit would really care if /r/piracy opened back up
You'd think so, but didn't the head mod get demodded?
Mates, today without warning, the reddit royal navy attacked. I've been demoded by the admins. - Divisions by zero
A fellow mod informed me that about it as I was laying in bed. Reddit sent a message to the mod team and after 1 hour demoded me. I didn’t even had time to see it, never-mind respond to it. [https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/pictrs/image/7dc4b932-f5d8-4e4a-bfca-34ca66821372.png] Looks like we rattled reddit enough to start shooting. There goes all that fancy talk about our protest not affecting them much. Just FYI for now. It’s late here so I’ll see how we proceed tomorrow.
This reminds me of the early days when you would goto steam.com only to realize that was not the correct website. I just checked and it seems like steam.com has been taken down but if I remember correctly it was some engineering company. I wonder if they are holding out for more cash from Gaben.
I remember that. It used to also say "this domain is not for sale" on the front page.
Darren du Nord@Highsight @FiendishFork Fight the power!
It's funny, but I don't quite get the point of this. If you are boycotting Reddit then you shouldn't be going there to post about things. If you ARE going there, you are no longer boycotting. Reddit doesn't care what you post about. You are still participating in the site. It's just driving traffic back to Reddit, which harms the cause.
The point is the lurkers subscribed there are going to get bored of steam pictures and unsubscribe, if it happens to enough subs then a lot of the passive userbase will end up either spending less time or leave entirely. Since the vast majority of users are lurkers, it'll outweigh the number of people creating these rebellion posts and Reddit should see a net loss in traffic. At least, that's what I've gathered. Please don't shoot the messenger if I'm wrong or it's a stupid idea
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@[email protected] I just looked - I was not disappointed.