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> 48 hours will not even ding reddit. I feel like 48 hour long outage for a social media website is huge. That's 2 days for people to look around at alternativ
by wraptile 3y ago
> 48 hours will not even ding reddit.
I feel like 48 hour long outage for a social media website is huge. That's 2 days for people to look around at alternatives. Remember when google plus launches FB argued that they had zero hours to lose and they were kinda right.
- jacquesm 3y agoIt's only 48 hours if reddit lets it.
- alpaca128 3y agoReddit can't force the moderators to return early. Letting it run with no moderation for 48 hours is far more damaging than a temporary interruption.
- jacquesm 3y agoReddit can solicit new mods and ban the old ones. It's probably the quickest way out for reddit and users will likely hardly notice except for those subreddits where the mods are very closely associated with the community itself. But that's definitely not the bulk of them and not the larger ones, though there are some exceptions.
- alpaca128 3y agoAssembling new moderators for 3000+ subreddits on such short notice sounds a bit difficult.
- jacquesm 3y agoI don't think it's all that difficult. Message the top 100 contributors of every subreddit that goes dark to ask if they want to be mods, and if they say yes put them on a two month trial. I remember when Ronald Reagan fired all air traffic controllers in the US, that definitely had me wondering about the wisdom of the move and yet it went off without a hitch. Not a single plane crashed on account of that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional_Air_Traffic_Controllers_Organization_(1968) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional_Air_Traffic_Contr...
- worrycue 3y agoTop contributors might not be interested in moderating though. It’s a different kind of activity - like being a tennis player vs being an umpire; Don’t think Roger Federer was ever interested in being an umpire. P.S. Also moderating anything on the internet has been derisively called being an internet janitor.
- joelthelion 3y ago> That's 2 days for people to look around at alternatives I don't think that's enough to lose a ten+ year habit of checking Reddit. A week or more, maybe. 2 days, I don't think.
- jacquesm 3y agoThere is this movie called 'The Truman Show', the ending is what comes to mind here.