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You're lumping the mods & userbase together. He is not. He's betting the mods don't represent how most users feel.
by trevmckendrick 3y ago
You're lumping the mods & userbase together. He is not.
He's betting the mods don't represent how most users feel.
- gkoberger 3y agoYup, agreed. On my sub, most people agree with the blackout. But there's a huge swell of people who are 100% on his side, and he's done a great job of pitting users against mods and framing mods as power-hungry jerks who are anti-democracy (in order to distract from the fact that he makes decisions with no accountability).
- ortusdux 3y agoI wonder what the larger subreddits would look like if they were unmoderated. Maybe that would be a better way for mods to protest at this point.
- liquidpele 3y ago> framing mods as power-hungry jerks who are anti-democracy He’s not wrong. There’s something about giving community power to people with the free time and willingness to do that work for free.
- znpy 3y agoAnd he’s not totally wrong in my opinion. Some of the subreddits i often browse (regional ones) are often moderated in a questionable way. But the mods have been in there for literally more than a decade, which makes them similar to landed gentry.