Dan GillmorJun 29, 2023

Reddit, owned by media giant Advance, is outright going to war against moderators who refuse to kowtow to the company's misguided destruction of 3rd-party apps. https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/28/23777195/reddit-protesting-moderators-communities-subreddits-private-reopen

Inertia is the company's most potent weapon. Let's hope the moderators will lead their communities to places where the unpaid volunteers, not an arrogant company that believes it owns them, are in charge.

Reddit is telling protesting mods their communities ‘will not’ stay private

Reddit is sending strongly-worded messages to moderators of some protesting subreddits that indicate the company may take actions to remove moderators or reopen communities.

The Verge
Show threadAncaJun 29, 2023
@dangillmor I think we’ll see a bunch of well-meaning but clueless scabs step in to moderate the larger subs and they will get stomped by the users
Show threadP Stewart

@anca @dangillmor I suspect less that and more 'free speech' moderators providing object lessons in why large communities that are moderated at arm's length (or not at all) swiftly turn into dumpster fires, linkfarming mediocrity, or mediocre, linkfarming dumpster fires.

Especially if those kinds of replacements happen in subs that were functional *because* they had attentive moderators and actual enforced policies.

Jun 29, 2023 at 3:26amWeb