Sure, they could go find new people who do this job for free (and thanks to the API changes virtually tool-less) or hire people to do it for them. Whether those people will be equally successful in nurturing their communities, who knows.
But it’s definitely an option and probably only a matter of time before it happens.
They kinda already are. The problem is finding new volunteers to cover them.
This is basically on the level of a church or homeless shelter disrespecting their volunteers. NPOs only thrive on the contributions of random people investing their efforts, and a social media platform has some parallels to the model.
Couldn’t the Admin team just force-open subs, at least the big ones?
Am I missing something? I mean they could just hire new mods.
I hope they don’t, but spez isn’t exactly known for being righteous
Sure, they could go find new people who do this job for free (and thanks to the API changes virtually tool-less) or hire people to do it for them. Whether those people will be equally successful in nurturing their communities, who knows.
But it’s definitely an option and probably only a matter of time before it happens.
They could, but this would probably anger people further. So they’re hoping it blows over without them needing to take aggressive actions.
Thats what they are doing
https://twitter.com/aaronp613/status/1669464567074680835
Comments around that tweet are a dumpster fire
I think they’re going to face a shortage of moderators trying to do that, but apparently it has happened at least once already:
https://wegotthiscovered.com/social-media/reddit-reportedly-removing-moderators-and-forcing-subreddits-to-reopen-to-break-protest/
They kinda already are. The problem is finding new volunteers to cover them.
This is basically on the level of a church or homeless shelter disrespecting their volunteers. NPOs only thrive on the contributions of random people investing their efforts, and a social media platform has some parallels to the model.