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Reddit's moderators are holding people hostage. This just shows how the small group of powerhungry mods acts. I hope reddit finds a solution that serves its use
by seydor 3y ago
Reddit's moderators are holding people hostage. This just shows how the small group of powerhungry mods acts. I hope reddit finds a solution that serves its users who provide the content.
- abashore 3y agoA lot of those mods held polls in their communities and among their peers before going dark. I don't think the large subreddits are getting unilaterally shut down.
- seydor 3y agoit's always like that -- reddit users always like drama so i did not expect they would vote otherwise. i think the whole idea is bad though Reddit has much bigger problems to solve. First and foremost, that users have no recourse from moderation abuses, and this is killing the community more than the API changes.
- Timon3 3y agoIf the people voted for it, how are the mods holding them hostage? Both the mods and the people want it.
- seydor 3y agovoted for 2 days, right?
- Timon3 3y agoInitially yes, but multiple communities made new polls for the continued blackout.
- seydor 3y agoHow? They were offline None of the subs i know did
- Timon3 3y agoThey went public and then private.
- Kiro 3y agoExample? Looking at the comments in this thread it doesn't feel like a democratic decision: https://old.reddit.com/r/StarWars/comments/148xygd/rstarwars_is_restricting_all_new_posts_going/ https://old.reddit.com/r/StarWars/comments/148xygd/rstarwars...
- mtslzr 3y agoYou hand-waved the response that users voted for this, and then simply repeated the (seemingly wrong) stance that mods are forcing this in anyone.
- qwytw 3y ago> that users have no recourse from moderation abuses Not participating in subreddits with crappy moderators seems like pretty good recourse?
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- leke 3y agoI'm the creator and mod of a sub with 25K users. A post was made by one of the users asking whether we should participate in the balckout. I didn't notice a single comment that said no. Apparently it's tough to get human beings to agree on anything.
- km3r 3y agoThe users that provide the content are pissed too. A significant portion of them will see the third party app they use die. I don't want to use their official app, and would be willing to pay a fair rate to do so, but their API prices are way beyond a fair rate. Social media, especially a platform like reddit, has a special relationship with users. They aren't customers. You need the people who post, comment, and moderate or the platform dies.