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I'm just a spectator, watching out of morbid curiosity after having watched the Libera/freenode saga play out. I'm not super emotionally invested in the final

I'm just a spectator, watching out of morbid curiosity after having watched the Libera/freenode saga play out. I'm not super emotionally invested in the final outcome, as much as I believe reddit and the CEO are torching a valuable marvel of humanity without an ounce of ???? (I'm seriously speechless) but instead with utter tonedeafness and serial doubledowns. (Although, I cared enough to edit out my comment history by hand in support, since my overall count isn't high.) /caveats /disclaimers "It's a private||public company that answers to its shareholders||board." Fine. > why [is] losing mod powers [..] such a big deal? You're doing a disservice to the protesting by reducing their message to "drama" over having their moderator positions seized. "[A] reddit community" alone is as many different things as there are the number of subreddits, to the same broad degree as your label just trivialized them. (e: last P. hopefully now sounding more discussive and less accusatory)

clnq 3y ago
> You're doing a disservice to the protesting by reducing their message to "drama" over having their moderator positions seized. Drama it is, by dictionary definition. That's how I used the word. > "[A] reddit community" alone is as many different things as there are the number of subreddits, to the same broad degree as your label just trivialized them. I think it's rather poor spirit to belittle someone for not knowing, when they have specifically asked to learn. If you have a compelling reason to argue that losing moderation powers is not trivial, you are very welcome to share it, and it will be appreciated.
- boneitis 3y ago
  (Going to skip the basic timeline of events. Highly voted submissions and threads here will bring you up to speed quicker and more accurately than any summarization on my part.) I guess my earlier ode to the tire fire that is reddit right now, which has, in its time, captured and digitized so much of humanity (and in one place, to boot), is largely my appeal. Your response to a sibling thread, while accurate as far as I see it, feels like it operates off of a narrowed definition of "personal gain". On the subreddit scope: it's a neighborhood watch for residents. It's tech support for PEBKACs. It's a woodworking learning center for aspiring careerists and hobbyists. It's a coordination hub for criminals. It's a porn portal for the hormonally befuddled or sinfully licentious, depending on who you ask. It's where future spouses-to-be and predators-and-victims meet. I'm not trying to say you don't realize this or that people can't do these things just about anywhere else; just that maybe you're completely glossing over the human element to it, if anything. Maybe you and certainly I are among these people. If you want to keep to your distanced vantage point, I'd posit that it'd serve as a pretty relevant case study for decades, at the least. "One for the history books." As we already know, nothing lasts forever. Didn't mean to accuse; and definitely didn't mean to belittle. E: p.s., not to mention, all the staff and volunteers behind the scenes, CEO included.

clnq 3y ago

> You're doing a disservice to the protesting by reducing their message to "drama" over having their moderator positions seized. Drama it is, by dictionary definition. That's how I used the word. > "[A] reddit community" alone is as many different things as there are the number of subreddits, to the same broad degree as your label just trivialized them. I think it's rather poor spirit to belittle someone for not knowing, when they have specifically asked to learn. If you have a compelling reason to argue that losing moderation powers is not trivial, you are very welcome to share it, and it will be appreciated.

boneitis 3y ago
(Going to skip the basic timeline of events. Highly voted submissions and threads here will bring you up to speed quicker and more accurately than any summarization on my part.) I guess my earlier ode to the tire fire that is reddit right now, which has, in its time, captured and digitized so much of humanity (and in one place, to boot), is largely my appeal. Your response to a sibling thread, while accurate as far as I see it, feels like it operates off of a narrowed definition of "personal gain". On the subreddit scope: it's a neighborhood watch for residents. It's tech support for PEBKACs. It's a woodworking learning center for aspiring careerists and hobbyists. It's a coordination hub for criminals. It's a porn portal for the hormonally befuddled or sinfully licentious, depending on who you ask. It's where future spouses-to-be and predators-and-victims meet. I'm not trying to say you don't realize this or that people can't do these things just about anywhere else; just that maybe you're completely glossing over the human element to it, if anything. Maybe you and certainly I are among these people. If you want to keep to your distanced vantage point, I'd posit that it'd serve as a pretty relevant case study for decades, at the least. "One for the history books." As we already know, nothing lasts forever. Didn't mean to accuse; and definitely didn't mean to belittle. E: p.s., not to mention, all the staff and volunteers behind the scenes, CEO included.