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Reddit is just a platform. If mods of a subreddit are seen as being heavy-handed in their moderation then people a free to create a competing subreddit.

Karunamon 10y ago
This ignores some critical context. For one, the worst behaved subreddits moderation wise are often the "default" ones, meaning the ones that everyone sees when logged out. They have a favored position on the site, in other words. Every user is subscribed to them by default, which also means their content is going to wind up on /r/all more often. Also, once a subreddit gets that size, crap mods can get away with a lot more because the volume of submissions make it hard to tell that something untoward is going on. And the people who pay attention (perhaps a few thousand on a good day) will easily be drowned out by those who do not. Community forks happen, but never at that level. The deck is hilariously stacked towards the entrenched communities.
- Nullabillity 10y ago
  /r/technology used to be a default, but got forked (and pretty much died) after some mod drama.
ikeboy 10y ago
I argued against that position at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11557949 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11557949 See also http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/07/22/freedom-on-the-centralized-web/ http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/07/22/freedom-on-the-centrali...
- adrusi 10y ago
  I don't think the parent was saying that you shouldn't take over a subreddit in response to moderator behavior. The thread has been saying two seperate things: that you shouldn't try to take over a subreddit for how its users behave, and that inappropriate moderator behavior is a problem on reddit. If you can convince a subreddit's subscribers that the moderators are shit and you'd do a better job, then you should certainly take control of the subreddit. Usually it's easier to just make a new subreddit and convince people that yours is better.

Karunamon 10y ago

This ignores some critical context. For one, the worst behaved subreddits moderation wise are often the "default" ones, meaning the ones that everyone sees when logged out. They have a favored position on the site, in other words. Every user is subscribed to them by default, which also means their content is going to wind up on /r/all more often. Also, once a subreddit gets that size, crap mods can get away with a lot more because the volume of submissions make it hard to tell that something untoward is going on. And the people who pay attention (perhaps a few thousand on a good day) will easily be drowned out by those who do not. Community forks happen, but never at that level. The deck is hilariously stacked towards the entrenched communities.

Nullabillity 10y ago
/r/technology used to be a default, but got forked (and pretty much died) after some mod drama.

ikeboy 10y ago

I argued against that position at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11557949 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11557949 See also http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/07/22/freedom-on-the-centralized-web/ http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/07/22/freedom-on-the-centrali...

adrusi 10y ago
I don't think the parent was saying that you shouldn't take over a subreddit in response to moderator behavior. The thread has been saying two seperate things: that you shouldn't try to take over a subreddit for how its users behave, and that inappropriate moderator behavior is a problem on reddit. If you can convince a subreddit's subscribers that the moderators are shit and you'd do a better job, then you should certainly take control of the subreddit. Usually it's easier to just make a new subreddit and convince people that yours is better.