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- For those outside of the loop, a couple time-ordered points not mentioned here: Fox contacted to the mods and asked specifically to talk with this person, an
by jmrm 5y ago
- For those outside of the loop, a couple time-ordered points not mentioned here:
Fox contacted to the mods and asked specifically to talk with this person, and the mods accepted this instead of other due to having some experience in other media. All of this without asking the users if they agree with that.
The Fox interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yUMIFYBMnc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yUMIFYBMnc
After the Fox interview happened, practically the whole subreddit were upset and disappointed. People asked why this happened in this way, why they didn't prepare a lot more this kind of event, and practically they got an "it is what it is", with a bit of authoritarian smell because the mods took this personally.
People really get even more mad about this, created other subreddits, and created threads in r/antiwork saying things like "mods are mods, not leaders or content creators, and they shouldn't influence the whole sub" and like like "we need new mods".
Mods took that personally, banned a lot of people, removed a lot of comments, more people were mad about this, and even attacked personally the person who spoke in Fox, until they had to close the sub.
- Sources:
https://old.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/sdesxw/megathread_rantiwork_goes_private_after_fox_news/ https://old.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/sdesxw/mega...
https://old.reddit.com/r/ABoringDystopia/comments/sdjc4b/the_newest_most_popular_reddit_sub_rantiwork/ https://old.reddit.com/r/ABoringDystopia/comments/sdjc4b/the...
- What I think we should learn about this:
Fox wanted to interview a specific mod because they knew that using a person who probably would give a bad public image they can show a bad image of the sub. And not only Fox, but every media who have a opposite idea or ideology to yours.
Mods weren't clever enough to ask the people if they wanted or not to be in Fox, who should be the spokesperson, and what thing they wanted defend, report, or ask for. They also needed to make to the spokesperson a guide about what appearance (not only physical) give and what subjects needs to talk.
The spokesperson never should talk about their personal life. That person is representing a group of people, not only one.
You can stop individual people, but not a common idea.
This is gonna be used for ever to teach people what not to do in an interview for a lot of time.