I hope it all burns down.
I hope they get a slew of new moderators who make every subreddit unbearable by deleting every good post and leaving only bullshit ones.
Imagine pissing off your free labour. Spez is a fucking idiot.
People will line up by the thousands to become a new moderator. Reddit will keep their free labour.
Of course they will, and at least 90% of those will stop moderating within a week bcause they have no idea what it entails and just like the sound of having power.
Another 9.99% will push personal agendas, post ads, malware, etc. or a dozen other things that will kill the sub.
In the end they’ll probably get decent moderatos for less than a tenth of those they seek.
People are downvoting you because they’d like to see otherwise, but you’re right. Hell, I’d like to see otherwise, but it’s not gonna happen.
I find it especially concerning that subreddits dedicated to mental health like r/Anxietyhelp or r/therapy are just thrown into the mix to have some randoms be mods. They could easily come with bad intentions and even well intentioned individuals could inadvertently cause a lot of harm.The job of managing any community dedicated to helping those suffering from mental health issues is by no means an easy task just anyone can do. A lot of knowledge about mental health and certain subtle/not easily recognizable problems (i.e. covert incitement of suicide) is required. This is not something any responsible admin would just give away to just about anyone like this.
You have a Reddit doesn’t give a fuck, nobody near the top of Reddit actually gives a fuck about us or you or your mental health, or who’s giving you advice for it
nobody near the top
of Redditactually gives a fuck about us or you or your mental health, or who’s giving you advice for it
And usually the moderators are people who suffer from said mental illnesses, so they know how to manage the community in a way that would be weird for a person who doesn’t suffer from mental illnesses would.
Simply put, a neurodivergent mod is more likely to relate to neurodivergent user than a neurotypical mod would relate to a neurodivergent user.
I agree, a lot of harm could be done if we throw random moderators in these subreddits.
Just like TheYellowRose on reddit. She mods black subs and bans anyone not black lolol
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This is the best way because minimal risk and effort for you, and you can always say you didn’t have access to automated tools to do moderation, which is true.
What risk? They take away the mod position you didn’t really want in the first place?
The risk is that they start suing users that act malicious, and this can’t be seen as malicious just incompetent.
Edit: I don’t see users doing nothing as malicious. I’m talking about the one’s breaking stuff being sued.
Suing unpaid volunteers for not working hard enough? Not a lawyer, but surely you can’t use sue an employee for not working hard enough. Just do a really poor job, don’t moderate well. What are they going to argue?
No they will sue the malicious ones not the ones doing nothing.
A lawsuit requires them to be breaking a law. Doing a shit or even malicious job at something you volunteered for is not against the law. Mods are not employees of reddit. If the argument is that they’re somehow harming the product, that same argument could be extended to the protestors and shitposters. It wouldn’t hold any water in an actual court.
No, more fun-
- Apply as a moderator.
- Make subreddit private again.
- Repeat if you don’t get banned.
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I am so tempted to volunteer.
And then immediately go malicious compliance, turning everything NSFW and creating funky rules for whatever subreddit they give me.
- /r/Chrome would be exclusively about chromed-metal-centric DIY projects and car mods, everything else gets deleted and you get banned for repeat offenses.
- /r/therapy would just have a single stickied link to a how-to-delete-your-reddit-data-and-profile guide.
Etc, etc.
If you get assigned as a mod for one that they force removed the mods. You could just give control back to the old mods.
Oh dear and it’s some of their more vulnerable subreddits too like Anxietyhelp and Therapy.
Oh and need some for Chrome, lol.
become moderator for /r/Chrome
Recommend people switch to Firefox
People should become mods and ban people left and right. Eventually users will get annoyed and leave the platform.😂😂
I wonder how many people you could ban before anyone noticed you were banning everyone?
My favorite so far is /r/OpenAI, where the moderators locked and deleted the post call and the replies are mostly promises to enable NSFW pics only. 😂 Good mods!
Reddit should have the top mod be an admin, for at least the majors. Kind of crazy that the don’t.
Then they’d have to pay them a salary.
It’s only gross because they turn a profit on volunteers.
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They haven’t gotten to mine yet (/r/sandals and /r/flipflops). I still have them set as private. The admins won’t be happy with whoever takes over because they will 100% turn them into NSFW fetish subs.
I fully abandoned /r/skin. It took me years to cut down the skincare spam and scams and quack medicine. Might as well invite the spammers back at this rate. I even turned off automod rules.
They IP banned me on all my accts for standing up to their BS. Banned accts that have only 1 post. Its insanity over there, seem like a desperate attempt to change the narrative\reinsert control and its working exactly the opposite.
Lol yeah have a look at moderator TheYellowRose, she has an agenda to push and immediately bans and mutes anybody she disagrees with.
I’ve seen post of women asking about hair style advice and she bans them because they are not black enough for that hairstyle lmfao misery needs company, or a subreddit to mod lol
Let me guess someone wanted dreadlocks… Which are Nordic in origin. They are so ignorant but think they are the smartest person in the room. Truly baffling.
I don’t mind the ban in all honesty, well I miss the niche ones that weren’t toxic. They are going to nuke the most active and the site will be an echo chamber of bots and NPCs and more people will walk away.
So I found your comment about dreadlocks being Nordic interesting and looked it up. Wikipedia claims that oldest depictions of dreadlocks date to the Minoan Civilization on Crete. They are also found in Asia and the Americas which could indicate they are a much older (or common) hairstyle. All very interesting!
I would have accepted the offer so I can allow porn on the sub and remove every rules
It’s so weird, there’s no way they’re not intentionally trying to kill the site.
All they’re doing is locking the site down so they can make money and bounce when it’s sold. When its your last day and you’re about to get a fat check if the building is standing you don’t care who’s in it.
They only care that the IPO goes well and that their VC investors recoup as much as they can.
They have no care for anything past that. And if they have to use bots to inflate activity metrics, they will.
They are taking control of those subreddits where mods do not obey, part of more censorship.
Power mods about to be consolidating their power
There’s definitely Cheetos and cum on someone’s keyboard over there.
Not to rain on the ‘fuck reddit’ parade, because well, fuck reddit, but the volunteer mod requests in the image are all two to three months old. Wasn’t all the backlash from the API decision only in mid-June?
Good point, but it looks like it’s still ongoing.
What are the replies like? Some have a lot so it doesn’t appear they’re struggling at all.
I haven’t even looked honestly, just looked up the account. I don’t really care whether they fill them or not, I only go back to reddit now for /r/sbcgaming and /r/ereader since those communities haven’t really picked up here yet (though maybe they will in time).
Edit - I just looked. It seems to be a lot of people saying “I wouldn’t be a good mod, no thanks” or “let me be a mod, I’ll totally let people post lewd pics,” “pick me, I’ll reinstate the old mods,” “I’ll gladly abuse my power, sure” and stuff of that variety. So no, doesn’t look like it’s a big rush to fill the spots. Mostly a lot of snark for the majority of them. MaleFashionAdvice seemed to be an exception with people looking to take the mod spot and they were all ridiculously downvoted.
Edit 2 - I especially liked this one:
u/spez can take his IPO and shove it up his ass. Join us at Lemmy. We can build it into something corporate dickwads can’t take from us.
It isn’t anywhere near /r/ereader but i have a sublemmy for ereaders!
