hey everyone. if you want to post links or discuss the Reddit blackout today, please localize it to this thread in order to keep things tidy! Thanks!

  • MelmiEnglish
    17·
    2 years ago

    I was impressed with the honesty of the /r/tumblr mod who told the community the only reason they weren’t blacking out was because they thought they might get removed and they wanted to keep their “job”. Way to make the community hate you

    Just found out that that mod changed their mind and decided to go dark anyway, and was promptly removed by Reddit. Well, I guess they did see it coming!

    • The Cuuuuube@beehaw.orgEnglish
      4·
      2 years ago

      There’s an extent to which I get it. You think by staying you’ll protect your users from worse abuse and that by playing ball you’ll make things more tolerable. But at the end of the day, Reddit is not a prison. Everyone is free to leave at any time. If someone wants their sub to protest they should do it. If they’re scared reddit will take over the sub entirely, let them. Reddit will run out of people to act as mods real fast if everyone who wants to protest can, and that will also degrade the user experience. Let’s lead our communities how we want and if reddit makes decisions that bleed users, let them

      • argv_minus_one@beehaw.orgEnglish
        6·
        2 years ago

        You think by staying you’ll protect your users from worse abuse and that by playing ball you’ll make things more tolerable.

        When in the ugly, violent history of humankind has that ever worked?

        • The Cuuuuube@beehaw.orgEnglish
          2·
          2 years ago

          Yeah I didn’t explicitly want to get into that since I was being long winded already and I was on my phone, but yes. 100%. Creating safe spaces requires very specific activities, and working with people who prevent you from doing those activities in order to keep things from getting any worse is not a winning play