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> All the major subs are either temporarily or permanently shutting down in protest. But I'd just add there is a pretty major difference between "temporarily"
by hn_throwaway_99 3y ago
> All the major subs are either temporarily or permanently shutting down in protest.
But I'd just add there is a pretty major difference between "temporarily" and "permanently". Major kudos to r/ProgrammerHumor and other subs that are doing it right - saying they will be shutting down indefinitely unless Reddit changes their stance.
Just saying you're only going to shut down for a couple days is essentially theater - Reddit can certainly wait out some popular subs being down for a few days. More generally, that's really the only way protests have a way of achieving their goals, by saying you'll engage in some behavior (or boycott) until your demands are met, or at least met with some change. Anything that's time limited is pretty much doomed to fail. For example, I'm not sure what the organizers of the recent Amazon "walkout" hoped to accomplish. That wasn't a walkout, it was lunch.
- hn_thrwn 3y ago[flagged]
- test098 3y agoreddit the company doesn't produce any content. they rely on people creating communities, cultivating them, and actively moderating them (for free!). i'd say that gives those creators more of a claim to ownership than the platform hosting that content. reddit doesn't exist without them - what value does the site have if they kick out everyone who "occupies" reddit.com? would you participate in an online forum only populated with chatbots?
- hn_thrwn 3y ago[flagged]
- yjftsjthsd-h 3y ago> This will be educational to them when they are all banned and replaced with chatbots. If they are replaced with chatbots, then I'm sure that the result will be educational to somebody. Not necessarily with the conclusion you imply, though.
- stevenwliao 3y agoI would love to replace my modding activities with a bot. We're not there yet.
- hn_thrwn 3y ago[flagged]
- mjr00 3y ago> But I'd just add there is a pretty major difference between "temporarily" and "permanently". Major kudos to r/ProgrammerHumor and other subs that are doing it right - saying they will be shutting down indefinitely unless Reddit changes their stance. A permanent closure of a popular sub is 100% going to lead to Reddit declaring the sub abandoned, replacing the mod team, and reopening. Has happened many times before. Not sure if programminghumor in particular meets that popularity threshold though.
- diydsp 3y ago> replacing the mod team, That's like immigrant jobs: You can take them away but there aren't hoards of passionate volunteers chomping at the bit to replace them.
- Macha 3y agoI mean, there's plenty of people lining up to have the "authority" of an internet mod, but not so many that can be trusted not to set up their own petty dictatorship or get bored when they realise what mods actually mostly do.
- stevenwliao 3y agoCan confirm as a subreddit mod. The day to day is mostly deciding whether borderline comments should be removed and whether a post contains too much self-promotion.
- unsupp0rted 3y agoWhy do you do it?
- faeriechangling 3y agoNot the same person, but one perk is you can influence a chunk of people just by abusing things like stickies.
- websap 3y agoWell, I'll be deleting my account and am texting / uploading stories on my other social media accounts to ask my friends and connections to do the same. Reddit has taken the content and hard work of 1000s of users, monetized it, and now wants to shut the gates.
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