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I give it 5 to 7 days until reddit the company forcefully removes these mods The impact of this would be to make lots of subreddit unmoderated, leading to a hu
by onion2k 3y ago
I give it 5 to 7 days until reddit the company forcefully removes these mods
The impact of this would be to make lots of subreddit unmoderated, leading to a huge amount of spam, adult content in sfw subreddit, cross-posting, etc. The impact would be to let everyone know just how much free work the mods do to keep Reddit tidy and valuable.
I don't think you're wrong (except maybe on the timescale) but I do think the strategy would shoot the CEO in the foot again.
- worthless-trash 3y agoI say that if they -DO- remove the moderators, we should go back and be human spambots.
- onion2k 3y agowe should go back and be human spambots Judging by my HN history I don't think I ever stopped.
- yanderekko 3y agoReddit has replaced mods before, they'll do it again. If they can't do it for hundreds of subs at once, that's fine - they'll start with the largest ones and go from there. Once it becomes clear that top mods will be removed if the subs don't reopen, the protest will largely crumble, if it doesn't do so before this becomes necessary.
- foodjinn 3y agoThe power mods that are pushing the blackout run something like 80% of the entire site. I honestly don't see how they allowed this to happen in the first place.
- seydor 3y agoIt will be a good thing that they are removed then. Hardly irreplaceable
- yanderekko 3y agoThe ones that are going to push for long-term blackouts don't control 80% of the site. Whatever share they do control will probably be redistributed to other powermods pretty quickly, I would guess.