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Lol. Sure, make it worse and piss people off even more. What could possibly go wrong? The best bet reddit has now is to just stay quiet.
by x86x87 3y ago
Lol. Sure, make it worse and piss people off even more. What could possibly go wrong?
The best bet reddit has now is to just stay quiet.
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- yanderekko 3y agoThere's not going to be a populist revolt against Reddit stopping angry mods from destroying their communities and/or actively siphoning them to other sites. The people who are already angry may get angrier, but they're already leaving so who cares? Once you've chosen Exit as your protest strategy, you lose Voice.
- x86x87 3y agoI don't think that's true. The numbers of lost mods/members will matter. Also, this isn't about having a voice.
- yanderekko 3y agoMy point is that the marginal impact will be negligible. The people who would get angry over forced reopenings are the people that are already angry over the API changes. Why would Reddit care about upsetting the people that are already allegedly leaving the site?
- jug6ernaut 3y agoI don't disagree with you, but this does seem like a pretty obvious move for Reddit. I don't think Reddit cares about appeasing moderators. Though with or without this move it will be very interesting to see what will happen to Reddit if there is a mass exodus of moderators. Moderation is IMO the hardest problem in social media, all other platforms (Twitter, Facebook, etc) are objectively terrible at it. Reddit on the other hand with moderation at the micro level vs macro level seems to work. But its 100% on the backs of charitable time from unpaid users. If that falls apart, I can see it having a devastating effect on Reddit as a whole.
- seanalltogether 3y agoI guess it depends on how they do it. If reddit simply asks mods to step down and let others apply if they don't like the new rules, then it takes away some of heated rhetoric.