What I'd want the mods to do is just delete the unuseful subs.
Keep r/Apple and r/Hardware. All the rest of the mods just delete the subs that are decades old.
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Keep r/Apple and r/Hardware. All the rest of the mods just delete the subs that are decades old.
All this is doing is p*****g off the users who want to read content, been a few times when I'm googling something and the answer just happens to be on a reddit page, but can I just click and view it? no I bloody can't because the page is being held hostage. I have had to uses Google's view the cache feature to even glimpse the page.
If only reddit could override the lockouts and make all pages public and remove the mods ability to hide pages.
If only reddit could override the lockouts and make all pages public and remove the mods ability to hide pages.
I take it you guys are volunteering to offer your unpaid labor? I can think of about a thousand other things I'd rather do with my free time than moderate a subreddit.
They’ll just be restored and assigned new moderators. Reddit owns everything. I wouldn’t be surprised if they already have soft deletes implemented to facilitate quick restores of any mass delete attempts.
Wow, it’s one thing to not back down from a financial decision for whatever reason, it’s a another to try to punish users/mods who are running communities as they see fit, using Reddit’s own available tools.
Not a good look.
Not a good look.
Musk would have removed 80% of the mods on the first day and then bragged about how much he gets done with so few people.
They can override it and are now informing moderators they will be doing it.
I had no idea I was a narcissistic power-hungry troll. Cool!
Lol they’ll take some on loan from the Wumao battalions in China. It’ll just cost a few propaganda posts every day
There are hundreds waiting in the wings to take up their positions... some even would pay for the privilege to be a tyrant.
Check out r/StarTrek
Why don't the upset people just go to another forum?
Or start their own forum?
There are open source forum software packages avaiable for install.
The protesters strike me as whiney children.
Or start their own forum?
There are open source forum software packages avaiable for install.
The protesters strike me as whiney children.
Maybe that can be their new business model - charge service fees for tyrant powers.
I always check in on a few hobby subs that have now gone dark. I never used Apollo, but Reddit is unusable now for my hobby subs and I’m back on old forums that are active again… user impact is real and users not using is $$ impact regardless of what CEOs say to placate investors
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And don't forget how "our" rebellion against Netflix putting the pinch on account sharing would bring them down... and then Netflix just reports substantial growth in subscriptions. What I find more interesting is how "we" were all canceling our subscription but then each new Netflix thread is filled with many of the same people again proclaiming how they are cancelling their Netflix account. Is it cancel, re-subscribe, cancel, resubscribe, cancel? Or do many of us write one thing but do something else?
He just wants his IPO paycheck. He doesn't care about anything else. Won't back down. That's all.
That's part of why this isn't as easy for Reddit as some people think it is. If you replace the existing mods with mods who are terrible, you drive away users. If you don't replace them with any mods at all it becomes a 4chan-esque cesspool, again driving away users.
Then the mods need to go and delete all of the content in said subreddits and since they can't delete the subreddit (which is crazy in and of itself), choose to leave on their own accord and leave the place a vast wasteland of nothingness. Make them cultivate it from the ground up. Don't let them win. Reddit's new API pricing is not only wrong or unfair but highly unethical and should be investigated as such. Their CEO needs to learn a hard lesson. Twitter banned 3rd party apps and they have and will continue to pay the price as well for that horrible decision. Let alone the whole failure called Twitter Blue. No one pays for Twitter. Elon ran that company into the ground and Huffman is too.
Apollo for life. Ride or die. Apollo goes, Reddit goes. Simple as that! Same with Tweetbot and Twitter. Those devs aren't making *that* much money off of them.
Apollo for life. Ride or die. Apollo goes, Reddit goes. Simple as that! Same with Tweetbot and Twitter. Those devs aren't making *that* much money off of them.
and thats how those subreddits die...
Yeah, right, that’s what you people say about Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, Apple, Microsoft, app subscriptions, and any other tech platform that dares to try and monetize its investments.
Deleted content can be easily restored. Pretty sure mass delete attempts won’t get very far before they are blocked off as Reddit knows in advance some might attempt this.
What about all the moderators on Reddit today? There are about 70,000 of them I believe. If they are willing to offer their unpaid labour and free time you really believe they are the only ones?
All mods are unpaid on this forum. If they all decided to quit tomorrow for any reason there will be hundreds in Q to replace them on a forum this size.
And that does not mean they will be worse at the job than those before them.
Aside from anything else, the vast majority have had their moment and are back open again. The rest will follow. Those mods will be more worried about losing their roles than you might think.
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Anything to avoid rolling back user-hostile changes that will force the shuttering of vastly superior third-party apps.
Besides the fact that the apps that Huffman (who is not Reddit, just the guy controlling it right now) are useful for the mods' work, the total disrespect that Huffman is showing for Reddit's users is not a way to build a growing business.
Reddit's CEO can change the mods and reopen subreddits all he wants, that doesn't necessarily mean the users are going to come back. Lots probably will. Lots probably never left in the first place.
I'm probably in a pretty small minority here - I didn't use apollo, I exclusively used old.reddit.com to view the site, but the CEO's behavior (head-up-his-ass writing, accusations, editing posts, etc) have made me lose interest in ever going back.
As far as tech stuff goes, it's not much of a loss. There's a lot of alternatives. As far as non-tech stuff goes it's a loss, but what I'm realizing now is the signal-to-noise ratio of Reddit wasn't all that great.
I'm probably in a pretty small minority here - I didn't use apollo, I exclusively used old.reddit.com to view the site, but the CEO's behavior (head-up-his-ass writing, accusations, editing posts, etc) have made me lose interest in ever going back.
As far as tech stuff goes, it's not much of a loss. There's a lot of alternatives. As far as non-tech stuff goes it's a loss, but what I'm realizing now is the signal-to-noise ratio of Reddit wasn't all that great.