Reddit Admins hand /r/SnackExchange over to a moderator with no experience. Other subreddit moderators fight in comments.
Reddit Admins hand /r/SnackExchange over to a moderator with no experience. Other subreddit moderators fight in comments.
Hey all, /r/snackexchange is under new management. A rundown of what's happened and where things go from here. I'll tr
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This is why their moderators' best weapon is to not moderate and let all hell break loose. Reddit will then be forced to pull this shit and it'll go to hell fast. It's their best weapon, better than going NSFW or dark in protest. Just silently stop moderating and let Reddit and advertisers notice when they aren't.
Sadly people are quite dedicated to doing work for free for some reason
Well, it's not a huge mystery or anything...people love the communities they build up. You feel a sense of loyalty to the people and to the idea behind the community.
From the outside looking in, I can see it being "working for free", but by that measure wouldn't any instance of you contributing anything that benefits others to be "working for free"?
Half of the tech support knowledge I have comes from people "working for free".
I think the sad part about Reddit is that there's still a lot of people that want to hold on to what they've built up, and Reddit is banking on that to force them to change.
there's a difference when its big business cashing the check and not someone else working for free.
Welcome to open source
So true. I live in a townhouse community, and I'll mow my neighbors' lawn when I'm out - it's literally 3 minutes - or clean out their gutters when I'm doing mine. Getting ready for the job is half the battle, anyway. But I'm not touching any rental property. Hell if I'm going to donate my time to some landlord's investment, even if it makes the neighborhood better.
I think it's mostly about wielding power tbh
Totally this. This is a brand spankin' new mod, hardly someone who has built the community. Heck he snuck up on the lead mod within a matter of hours after being made a mod.
People like you would think that
Well, it’s not a huge mystery or anything…people love the communities they build up. You feel a sense of loyalty to the people and to the idea behind the community.
Dude. Its about power and control. It has little to do with any sense of loyalty. I'm sure there are a few that have some measure of loyalty, but very few mods are doing it because they just love the topic they moderate. They're doing it because it gives them power and control and they love that. Absolutely no one can convince me otherwise.
I don't agree, not all mods are power hungry, some subs are what they are today because of their mods.
I think there's plenty of mods on both sides of that argument.
Some do love the communities they've built up and some just love the power trip in their miserable lives.
A vocal portion of the reddit user base seems to really hate moderators for some reason. In the subreddits I frequented I never saw anything which seemed like an abuse of power, but maybe reddit doesn't automatically broadcast mod actions very well?
This is understandable and actually great! But if they get screwed over by a profit hungry company for doing work for the community.
I wish they had already started doing this. Once the moderators are screwed over and replaced by people who can't fill their shoes, it's already too late; those mods are probably never coming back even if Reddit wanted them to. And after the apps stop working on Saturday, the damage will already be done.
This is a good thing, the faster and harder reddit crashes, the more people will move to better platforms which are run not by corporations leaching money from entirely user created content while making the experience actively worse (long before this latest incident).
Reddit backtracking for half a year and turning up the heat slower was the worst case outcome.
True, I just miss how active Reddit was. Hopefully one day Lemmy is just as or more active than Reddit.