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Reddit Threatens to Remove Moderators From Subreddits Continuing Apollo-Related Blackouts

Good on them!

At the end of they day Reddit is just a business and you can't be held hostage by your customers! I was actually thinking this week why they just don't manually re-open these threads as administrators immediatly. This whole situation has made the Reddit owners look weak.
 
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At long last - goodbye, Reddit. I first signed up in 2008. Fifteen years later, I bid you adieu.

If you’re doing the same, don’t forget to use Power Delete Suite to delete your posts and comments first: https://codepen.io/j0be/full/WMBWOW/

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bLackjackj said:
At the end of they day Reddit is just a business and you can't be held hostage by your customers!
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Technically, reddit members and by extension, moderators, are not the customer. They are the product. The customer is whomver is buying ad space on reddit.

But if you anger your mods and they leave. Then you end up angering the reddit members and they leave, who is going to view the ads? Why would you pay for ads that no one sees?
 
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vipergts2207 said:
Also, you didn't say which subreddit you'd be volunteering to moderate.
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Again, I don't need to volunteer, plenty are available. Like you, I have better things to do with my time. Whether Reddit succeeds or fails, I really don't care.

Leave Reddit if you feel that strongly and never return. As I said, most are open again, and the others will follow. There isn't going to be any large-scale quitting of moderators that is going to require a significant number of new ones.

From what I can see there are more complaints about subreddits being locked than people protesting. Those unpaid moderators shouldn't be allowed to make decisions on behalf of everyone else.

The vast majority of Reddit visitors don't care as it doesn't affect them. They just want to read and comment.

Reddit will ultimately be fine, or at least no worse place than it was last week. Only a few seem to believe or want that to be different, it won't be.
 
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Tork said:
This is such a classic example of an echo chamber. Mods thinking just so many people support this when in reality, a vast majority use the (well-reviewed) 1st-party app and thoroughly don’t care and just want access back.
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They watch too much TV/movies to realize that their behavior is disconnected with the real world.

Reddit should be shut down... too much pedos!
 
what a ****ing joke. this is really turning into a Twitter-run-by-Elon state.

private companies have every right to exert their TOS on users, but it seems Huffman is forgetting that his website’s users—especially the mods—are the backbone of the site.

this is like if Wikipedia started charging absurd amounts to view an article and editors stopped keeping up pages as a matter of protest, and Jimmy Wales threatened to ban them…stay humble and remember what made you.

at least that IPO pipe dream really is shaping up to be a joke according to Fidelity’s valuation, lol…you reap what you sow!
 
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Proves they've got what's-his-nuts in a knot. Good for them. They need to keep it up. And they need all of the subreddits to make sure it keeps up. They replace the moderators with yes men, then the users need to not come back. It'd be SO nice to see the arseholes NOT avoid responsibility and do anything they want while the general populace takes it for a change. I say more power them.
 
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DocNo said:
According to The Verge the CEO says they aren't going to deep six the mods and instead respect their decisions: https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/15/23762792/reddit-subreddit-closed-unilaterally-reopen-communities
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I suspect they will let the community do the work. The longer it goes on the more visitors will complain about subreddits being locked and sympathy will be lost. So the moderators will need to give in or due to the level of complaints, Reddit will use that as their excuse to force them open.
 
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LeeW said:
Again, I don't need to volunteer, plenty are available. Like you, I have better things to do with my time. Whether Reddit succeeds or fails, I really don't care.

Leave Reddit if you feel that strongly and never return. As I said, most are open again, and the others will follow. There isn't going to be any large-scale quitting of moderators that is going to require a significant number of new ones.

From what I can see there are more complaints about subreddits being locked than people protesting. Those unpaid moderators shouldn't be allowed to make decisions on behalf of everyone else.

The vast majority of Reddit visitors don't care as it doesn't affect them. They just want to read and comment.

Reddit will ultimately be fine, or at least no worse place than it was last week. Only a few seem to believe or want that to be different, it won't be.
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Lol thanks for proving my point. You don’t think 99% of Reddit’s users feel exactly like we do? That we’re not wasting our free time on such inane **** as moderating a sub? A great many of the people who do want to mod aren’t the kind of people you want moderating in the first place. Power-hungry trolls who want to ban anyone who disagrees with them. Bad mods have and will continue to destroy subreddits. Only now Reddit seems to want that to become the norm rather than the exception.
 
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bLackjackj said:
Good on them!

At the end of they day Reddit is just a business and you can't be held hostage by your customers! I was actually thinking this week why they just don't manually re-open these threads as administrators immediatly. This whole situation has made the Reddit owners look weak.
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It's a business where all the value is produced by unpaid volunteers, including these moderators.

They don't produce anything of intrinsic value themselves. Their entire business model is being 'held hostage' by their customers.
 
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I wonder if the mods would reconsider their principles if Reddit cut them in on the API profits...
 
It's rather worrying when they're trying to gaslight people into believing that moderators engaging in a protest are actually just deciding they "don't want to be a mod any more", taking "a break from moderating", or "leaving a community". They're not leaving - they're protesting. It's like saying people going on strike are "taking a break from work".
 
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Reddit was good while it lasted but third party apps made visiting and participating worth it. This CEO is pretty much a joke.

Deleting my own account and moving onto squabbles.io or something.
 
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