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The feature that mods are using is setting the subreddits to "private" (with no approved members). Disabling the ability to do this will break that function for
by bastawhiz 3y ago
The feature that mods are using is setting the subreddits to "private" (with no approved members). Disabling the ability to do this will break that function for people who use it, or look really petty.
- chromoblob 3y agoReddit could just disable this function on a specific moment, so that the feature cannot be used for coordinated strikes
- jerf 3y agoEscalating open war against its users is not a very good idea for Reddit. Keep gaming that option out, and all the other responses and counterresponses. Broadly, Reddit needs money to survive, and they need goodwill to get money. Burning $X of goodwill to make $10X dollars is kind of what they're trying to do now, but it's a very delicate move on their part. If you kind of build some simple mathematical models in your head it's not hard to see how delicate this move is, since "goodwill" is also people visiting. As large as the site is, it is not very many exponential processes from 90%+ losses. It is one of great perils of social sites in general, they can't help but transmit social contagions by their very design. There's quite a number of sites that have been wiped out by these forces (MySpace), and a larger number of sites that nominally still exist but are shadows of their former selves (Slashdot, Tumblr post-porn removal, Digg). I suspect Reddit management is making a classic mistake and operating with a linear model of their options when in fact the situation is very non-linear because of the fact that goodwill feeds back on goodwill. It's only locally linear and they can leave the linear domain quickly and irreversibly.
- bastawhiz 3y agoTo what end? The only thing it accomplishes is making them look petty.