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Reddit is doing so much injury to the free labor mods. They are so massively disproportionately injured by these changes, as people who direly need advanced cha
by rektide 3y ago
Reddit is doing so much injury to the free labor mods. They are so massively disproportionately injured by these changes, as people who direly need advanced changes. Absolutely wild own goal.
- not_a_shill 3y agoIt's not an own goal if the mods will continue to keep doing it because that's all they have.
- georgeburdell 3y agoA lot of mods try to diversify their communities across platforms (Discord, Mastodon)
- Clent 3y agoKeep it in what form? How little will it take for the communities to spiral? How would a developer's performance be if you removed their tooling? Could they still develop, sure. Will they want to? Is there some where for them to move. If not, how long until the pain forces a thousand clones? I've been around long enough to see the decline of Reddit. Predicted many times but eventually, the bottom will fall out and with the sentiment of the world towards big business and reddit wanting to IPO. I see this as a place people may make a stand. Because what better place than the place itself.
- ruined 3y agothere is a class of power moderators who are monetizing their position, who are dependent on the population of reddit. but most topic-focused communities on reddit are only there because reddit is the most convenient platform. as soon as that is no longer the case, the community will move on, and ultimately that is the same population that supplies the larger monetizeable subreddits.
- zem 3y agoas a mod of a few topic focused subreddits, yeah, if they ever get rid of old.reddit I'm probably gone. I'll miss the communities but not enough to put up with the interface.
- gaoshan 3y agoI'm a mod (of an insignificant subreddit), have been active for 15+ years, 6 figure karma, even had the single most upvoted comment on all of reddit one day...they notify you and give you an award when that happens in case you wonder. My feelings about the site have evolved so much over the years but in the past couple of years the vibe has been turning consistently negative. I'm getting fed up and I imagine a lot of others are as well and I can't imagine this will end up benefiting Reddit in general.
- pierat 3y agoCongratulations for working for free for a for-profit company? Might I recommend you to turn towards places like Lemmy or other less-commercial and less exploitive websites? Reddit relies on free work, but doesn't value or help the mods. And now, they're doubling down on screwing everyone and manufacturing fake content for what appears their IPO. I think it's time to skedaddle.
- autoexec 3y agoI think I'm out of the loop... what is this about manufacturing fake content?
- EamonnMR 3y agoProbably referring to this: https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/13p889x/reddit_admins_were_just_caught_using_bots_or_fake/ https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/13p889x/red...
- morkalork 3y agoCan't fault them for following a tried and true strategy from the same platform: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/06/reddit-founders-made-hundreds-of-fake-profiles-so-site-looked-popular/ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/06/reddi...
- unethical_ban 3y ago
- surgical_fire 3y agoAs someone who moderated a couple of communities in the past... Good.
- treis 3y agoMods are as much of a problem as they are a help. They rule subreddits like gods and (lots) abuse the shadow ban/delete system to silence opinions they don't like. Lots of others sell out to various influencers/advertisers and help promote whatever they want.
- Seattle3503 3y agoMods cannot shadowban users. Only admins can do that.
- ink_13 3y agoEnh, sort of. You can write an Automod rule to always remove content from one or more specific users.