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I take it users will be able to vote out Admins and the CEO as well?
by sdflhasjd 3y ago
I take it users will be able to vote out Admins and the CEO as well?
- bpodgursky 3y agoWhy should the users have any vote over anything?
- jjkaczor 3y agoIt's their content. Reddit wouldn't exist without user contributed, moderated and 'engaged' content.
- dathinab 3y agoespecially not without moderation without the ton of unpayed moderators they wouldn't be able to comply with hate speech laws (or comply by having moderation systems which are "out of context of the conversation" enough to drive a lot of users away) without it all the good content would be drowned by spam and other bad stuff in turn without moderators the most users would leave sooner or later
- andrewstuart2 3y agoWell, for one, they're the sole value prop for the site. They generate, rank, and curate the content in concert with mods and admins.
- have_faith 3y agoWhy don't the users go and do that somewhere else? genuine question, I don't use Reddit.
- andrewstuart2 3y agoI think that's the emerging plan, yes.
- pavel_lishin 3y agoNetwork & lock-in effects. It's pretty difficult to coordinate moving even dozens of people in a community to a new place; subreddits can have hundreds, thousands, even hundreds of thousands. There's not a particularly great way to move, for example, r/askhistorians elsewhere and ask people to follow. There will be a tremendous drop-off, as well as loss of historical (hah) posts, community knowledge, etc., etc. But also: yeah, users will probably end up going somewhere else. It'll be a diaspora; Reddit arguably prospered because Digg's users migrated there en mass after the redesign fiasco. Tumblr and Twitter have been seeing migration waves back and forth. Other communities will come, and grow - but it won't just be a "move".
- grumple 3y agoThey did before, they are now, and they will after. Reddit contends with Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, blogs, etc. We're doing it right here ourselves.
- bee_rider 3y agoSeems like they might. The weird/confusing thing is that Reddit seems to be doing their best to incentivize them to.
- cornercasechase 3y agoI vote with my feet. I don’t use Twitter anymore because of Musk and now I won’t use Reddit because of spez. Tbh, it feels great getting these sites out of my life.
- voxic11 3y agoThe entire point of reddit is that users vote on posts and comments. Idk what the site would be if you took out the user voting.
- zemo 3y ago... the entire product is based on voting
- DonaldPShimoda 3y agoTo actually answer: Huffman's argument is that mods are like business executives and users are like shareholders, and therefore the users should be able to vote out moderators who are not acting in the users' best interests. He said this while also implying that the blackout was only supported by moderators, not by the regular users, and that this means that Reddit administration is having to step in to save the users from the evil, sinister "inactive" moderators who enacted the protest. Since Huffman thinks moderators should be able to be voted out by users because the users are the primary "shareholders" of Reddit, the parent comment to yours is asking (rhetorically) whether they will extend those policies to the CEO and other administrators.
- jackdh 3y agoWhich doesn't make sense as instead of voting people out they could just create a new subreddit. Unlike in real life landed gentry works due to limited space. Not so on the internet.
- DonaldPShimoda 3y agoYeah Huffman's whole argument is disingenuous from the start, which is to be expected from a guy desperately trying to convince people that his platform has profit potential even though just this week he stated that it is not profitable. Uphill battle, y'know?