I guess the beatings will continue until the morale improves.
if forced to reopen, they should do it (rather than get pushed out and effectively give admins full control), but allow only a single new mod post every day- “day 5 of forced reopening discussion thread” and lock every other post.
They can just go into the management back-end and do whatever they want. Spez used it to edit commenters’ posts years ago, so he knows how to rig things if he wants to. Question is, how long will it take him to get fed up with us and get around to doing it?
And get kicked off day 2 while the threads get deleted. Probably the most effective way is to just open and not do any moderating.
Then get kicked for not moderating their community
Haha, that’s probably true.
The more I think about this situation the more pissed off I get. Reddit is basically going to make bank off of the volunteer work of the mods and loads of user generated content. And god forbid anyone should have an opinion about Reddit screwing this up because they’ll fire you from your volunteer work.
No wonder everybody is flocking to the fediverse.
People are literally crossing the digital picket line to scab unpaid moderator positions to do free work for admins who are using intimidation tactics against their moderator peers.
Reddit is doomed
If your money, reputation, family, friends, career, etc it’s on the line, I can understand how people would fold under pressure.
You’d literally be walking away from someone who doesn’t respect you, and then asks you to work for free.
How spineless do you have to be?
If there are mods here who are willing to work towards reopening this community, we are willing to work with you to process a Top Mod Removal request or reorder the mod team to achieve this goal if mods higher up the list are hindering reopening.
Translation: please snitch and we’ll give you control of the subreddit. We don’t have enough staff to moderate all the subreddits ourselves.
Reddit always relied on unpaid work.
How American of them. Install your own leaders when you don’t like what they’re doing with their self-governed community
It’s the USian way.
Reddit can go fuck themselves. If this is how they’re gonna behave, we might as well kill the site now before it can become further entrenched.
/r/pics polled their users: stay closed, or only allow pics of John Oliver looking sexy?
They chose the latter.
It’s a brilliant move honestly
And the slew of shitty underhanded tactics continues, lol. Anything to avoid actually listening to their community.
What a shithole this has become
Wow, it’s like they’re trying to hire strike breakers for free…
I read a similar article and was going to post it until I saw this one. Awfully heavy-handed. So now he wants scabs?
Instead of addressing complaints and working towards a solution and forcing the policies only for profit is corporate capitalism at its finest.
It’s the main reason why I’m done.
