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Reddit Threatens to Remove Moderators From Subreddits Continuing Apollo-Related Blackouts
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Then, all the current rioting mods can remove content from Reddit while Apollo lasts, just to solidify the point to Reddit.
Idk if that’s possible, but a content-less Reddit surely can’t attract too many eyeballs.
Social platforms aren’t monitizeable. That should be clear at this point to anyone who has been paying attention. YouTube is probably the most successful, and even that runs in the red.
The business model never worked, it’s just all the VC funny-money showered on these companies over the last decade has dried up.
Don’t know what among my posts made you think I wanted to. However, that doesn’t change the fact that they aren’t entitled to free labor.
Getting to know more about Reddit and the reality behind it (I was completely ignorant) the more house of cards it all feels.
Series F rounds? That’s probably not a profitable business and more a pyramid-like scheme where the new investors pay for all the costs of the previous ones and the costs of the last growing step…
Would totally use this “forced removal” as an excuse to get rid of that unpaid heavy weight of such responsibility burden if I were a moderator. I personally don’t share any of the drive that make someone want to become a moderator (or a CEO, or a mayor/governor/president): gotta babysit who is doing what or when and what they said, make sure they paid their dues, etc. It’s like wanting to be the biggest massive nosy person ever.
Series F rounds? That’s probably not a profitable business and more a pyramid-like scheme where the new investors pay for all the costs of the previous ones and the costs of the last growing step…
Would totally use this “forced removal” as an excuse to get rid of that unpaid heavy weight of such responsibility burden if I were a moderator. I personally don’t share any of the drive that make someone want to become a moderator (or a CEO, or a mayor/governor/president): gotta babysit who is doing what or when and what they said, make sure they paid their dues, etc. It’s like wanting to be the biggest massive nosy person ever.
Can't be paying the mods, though. Evidently, their coffers are empty???
Reddit is valued at more than $10 billion in latest funding round. (Published 2021)
Just six months ago it was valued at $6 billion. It raised $410 million in its latest round.www.nytimes.com
There’s actually a huge variety of content there on every topic you can imagine. But it’s an independent company that can do whatever they want. Just like when people complain about Apple’s pricing, they are free to operate how they want.
If only those Contents on reddit could be just wiped out en mass without the ability to restore. Or if only user engagement and visiting site matters to Reddit.
Soft delete or not, the ability for them to restore data (which is a standard practice) is what I am concerned about the most. Users are so useless and powerless nowadays Reddit cannot be threatened even by this. Heck, even if magically every single Reddit user today stops using Reddit permanently and move to other platform, I doubt Reddit would die anytime soon If at all.
This is the typical “hoping other people to do your bid“ wishful thinking, and usually how bad it goes. Reddit IPO ain’t gonna shatter a casual user‘s ability to check basic info on Reddit and move on. Even if all mods today quit, the impact doesn't really exist. Reddit can just wait out this sort of blackout or simply restore privatised forums on their end. Users nowadays are so powerless, even if something magical happen and every current user stops using a service or a product, as the company of Reddit size, they simply don’t care. Even if they pretend they do, it’s just token actions that doesn’t really mean much in a material matter.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?
I clearly don't understand what the issue is.
You cannot hijack forums, simply against group policy.
1. Reddit simply opens all the closed forums and removes and deletes account of each offending OP. Simple.
Why is this so hard Reddit?
You cannot hijack forums, simply against group policy.
1. Reddit simply opens all the closed forums and removes and deletes account of each offending OP. Simple.
Why is this so hard Reddit?
Because then they have an enormous number of subs with no moderators.
I bet at the heart of this is a venture capitalist that wants a return on investment.
I would just like to say there is a good alternative to Reddit for most substantive discussions across a wide range of topics, and that is StackExchange.com.
Since Reddit has subconsciously chosen to allow subs with no mods exist, idk what else user can do. Responsible users by definition, is the 20% minority after all.
Okay, regardless..Reddit has the complete control to just re-open them, regardless. Why even send that comms. Just re-open and edit control so that they cant shut them at will.
“This doesn’t affect our bottom line” to the nuclear option in roughly 48 hours. Their flailing is pretty impressive. Usually you’re supposed to hold the poker face for a bit longer.
I wish them good luck on replacing the mods of a triple digit number of subs on short notice and have it not just blow up even worse when the mods they pick are awful. They will surely need it. Gotta wonder when just giving in would be easier…
I wish them good luck on replacing the mods of a triple digit number of subs on short notice and have it not just blow up even worse when the mods they pick are awful. They will surely need it. Gotta wonder when just giving in would be easier…
Good. Such BS to lock down the subreddits for anyone who wasn't already part of the community. If they really wanted to protest, they should have deleted the entire subreddit and delete their own accounts.
r/apple just came back and the mods said they only did because they thought they were going to be kicked out and replaced soon
I think Reddit is one of the only sites that can feasibly be replaced by a federated alternative. The discussion was already all contained within specific subfourms, it would be like a combination of Reddit and classic “every topic has its own forum domain and account system.” Reddit having any ability to post “on your profile” is pretty recent and appears pretty unused besides for sponsored posts.
Also, as we’re seeing, the subgroups have their own unique mod teams and rules that only affect your status in specific groups.
Nobody wants to deal with that stuff to argue with people on Twitter.