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To any mods facing similar pressure: you can implement ridiculous rules. Like how Reddit is fine with r/Superbowl deleting any post that isn't a picture of an o
by mike_d 3y ago
To any mods facing similar pressure: you can implement ridiculous rules. Like how Reddit is fine with r/Superbowl deleting any post that isn't a picture of an owl.
Might I recommend requiring all posts to your sub to tag u/spez, or having an even number of characters, etc. All of which can easily be done with Automod.
This lets you to moderate your subreddit and enforce the rules while allowing it to wither on the vine.
- mjr00 3y ago... or just resign as a moderator, start up a Discord/Lemmy instance, and let one of the thousands of people begging to be mods take over the subreddit? Nobody's forcing you to stay on as a mod if you're pissed about Reddit removing third-party app access.
- tacker2000 3y agoDiscord is a walled garden without any search indexing. All knowledge is rotting in there unfortunately.
- arugulum 3y agoI don't think this "burn it all down" mentality is helpful. Presumably the mods are protesting because they want a good Reddit/subreddit experience, and the new policies are hurting that. How is handing power over to someone who is supportive of Reddit's new policies helping that?
- pierat 3y agoOut of its ashes, something new will take its place. I was a former lead mod a year ago of a large subreddit. I saw the writing on the wall THEN, and took the sub private, and booted the other mods I brought in. I then started purging content. Not a few hours later, the other 2 mods I invited in messaged the admins, and removed my moderatorship and then banned my account. Those subreddits, no matter how many "mod kudos" you have, were never yours, are never yours, and will always be digital sharecropping. Burn it to the ground. Power is the ONLY message the admins and C levels understand.
- hedora 3y agoExport the data, then put it on a federated / standalone alternative first. Otherwise, you're just burning digital books. I'm curious to see what happens when people start following this advice (it's really the only reasonable path forward), and then what happens with the inevitable lawsuits about how reddit "owns" the content that the authors are "pirating".
- Zandikar 3y agoWhy don't you start up a new subreddit, and let in the thousands of people begging for it to reopen? Nobody's forcing you to stare at the "this sub is private" page all day if you're pissed about people actually using what little power they have to fight back against a corporation trying to monetize the way you and your community socializes.
- arugulum 3y agoThis really should be it. Open up but slowly deteriorate the experience. Here's a concrete proposal: Set automod to delete any post/comment longer than 20 characters. This makes discussion virtually impossible, and starts to impact the quality of Reddit posts. With enough subs cooperating (e.g. the subs that went private over the blackout), it'd already be making a serious impact on the usage experience of Reddit. Furthermore, this policy can be enacted indefinitely without stopping the "regular operation" of Reddit (i.e. mods can sit on this policy for as long as they need to, as opposed to the blackout which even from the start was planned with a time limit.)
- optimalsolver 3y agoMod team will be gone by tomorrow morning if they try that. Sounds like Reddit has ran out of patience.
- oAlbe 3y agoYeah it was very patient of them to allow all those people to create, curate and moderate content on their platform at no cost to reddit.
- ahahahahah 3y agoThis is actually a great example that justifies reddit's push to allow communities to remove their moderators if they are doing things so egregiously abusive to the community.
- pg_1234 3y agoDon't be restrictive, be overly permissive. Let through offensive porn, copyright infringement, spyware, trojans. There are hyper active pervert/malware communities out there who will eagerly assist. This path opens Reddit the Corp up to lawsuits and regulatory oversight and does far more lasting damage.
- optimalsolver 3y agoAverage user: "I just wanted to talk about Apple products."
- samus 3y agoAverage users benefit from the free labor of admins that keep the subreddits on topic, free of spam, mediate conflicts, and remove disruptive posters who degrade the overall experience of browsing and participating in the subreddit.
- phpisthebest 3y agomalicious compliance is the best kind of compliance
- CatWChainsaw 3y agoYeah, just ask r/maliciouscompliance
- hillcrestenigma 3y ago> Like how Reddit is fine with r/Superbowl deleting any post that isn't a picture of an owl. Minor nitpick: I agree with the idea, but the deletion of any post that doesn't contain an owl on r/Superbowl isn't a ridiculous rule. The subreddit is dedicated to "superb owls" and not to anything else.
- jeremy_wiebe 3y agoReminds me of Saturday Night Live’s Celebrity Jeopardy where one contestant famously mispronounced “ThePenIsMightier” category. (Just lowercase the first “I”)
- twiceaday 3y agoI'll take Anal Bum Cover for $7000
- willcipriano 3y agoI'll take the rapists for $200
- survirtual 3y agoAgreed. When I go to the superbowl subreddit, I am expecting many superb owls and nothing else. I don't see how anyone can have a problem with that. Sometimes, the users are the problem and we need a heavy hand to make sure they are obedient -- all for their benefit, not ours.
- basch 3y ago/r/apple should pivot to be about Apple Records and the Beetles
- SturgeonsLaw 3y agoI was hoping to go there for an in depth discussion about the merits of Granny Smith vs Red Delicious
- activiation 3y agoSuperb Owls... Nice
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- seanmcdirmid 3y agoI don't think this is going to win for Reddit mods on a technicality. Reddit can basically make up the rules as they go along since they own the platform, the only real option would be to find an alternative.
- abhijat 3y agoI think spez has special protection against being tagged.
- shagie 3y agoNearly everyone has most of those protections. You can whitelist a set of accounts that can message you. You can also turn off notifications for username mentions. https://new.reddit.com/settings/notifications https://new.reddit.com/settings/notifications
- mardifoufs 3y agoOpposite actually. An example is r/drama, who was forbidden from tagging anyone with a literal hard-coded exception to the system. But spez iirc specifically said that they were still allowed to ping him .
- the_only_law 3y agoI’m sure you can, but at this point, I don’t see why Reddit won’t just strip you from moderation and install someone else.
- rzazueta 3y agoThis is a cleaning house / loyalty test: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/reddit-blackout-protest-private-ceo-elon-musk-huffman-rcna89700 https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/reddit-blackout-prote... Reddit mods who do not want to be exploited further are best walking away now and trying to reform - if they decide, this must be exhausting - on the Fediverse.
- lamontcg 3y agoI'm not sure it started out as a loyalty test, but it is definitely going to function as one. Spez sees this as progress, flushing out problematic (to him) moderators.
- Simulacra 3y agoInteresting, a comment with no up or down vote. Is it just me or did this comment just get pinned?