Is how easily mods have caved in once the admins threatened to remove them. I had thought we’d see quite a few cases where Reddit would have to step in an replace entire mod teams (effectively killing the community). But it seems like that hasn’t happened at all - the closest we’ve got is mods being reordered.

I guess I didn’t appreciate how much moderating means to some people, especially people who are marginalised or otherwise have shitty lives… (which makes Reddit’s behaviour even more abhorrent! Exploiting the most vulnerable in society to provide free labour they are making huge profits off).

That said, it seems like Reddit has crossed the Rubicon now. They have now forced mods to run their subreddits in a certain way. Mods now know they are operating in some tight boundaries, and the admins can - on a whim - change the rules and force them to comply. i.e. any illusion of the power they had is now massively reduced. I’m sure a lot of them will be in denial, but this more than likely won’t be the last time we see this happen.

  • HidingCat@kbin.social
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    16
    ·
    1 year ago

    Change doesn’t happen overnight. As long as the shitshow continues, it’ll affect Reddit. Plenty of mods still protesting, and many are contemplating their next moves.

    I personally am thinking of stepping down, I haven’t done much moderation in the past year or so anyway.

    I expect another exodus when the apps shut down at the end of the month as well. Things happen in stages.

    • ParkingPsychology@kbin.social
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      8
      ·
      1 year ago

      Just change the rules of the sub to include NSFW and then set the whole sub to NSFW. Reddit doesn’t advertise on NSFW subreddits, so the sub is open, but you impact reddit’s bottom line.

      • EatALime@kbin.social
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        3
        ·
        edit-2
        1 year ago

        The Toyota subreddit did that earlier today and then it went private. I don’t know if Reddit turned it private to clean it up or if the moderators did.

        • ParkingPsychology@kbin.social
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          2
          ·
          1 year ago

          That would make no sense, right? I mean I could get it if the admins put it private, but not with that specific message:

          The sub is closed indefinitely and will not reopen.

          Unless it was never changed, I guess.

          It’s still an odd response if it’s admins.

          • Set your sub to private: Now you get told to open it.
          • Set your sub to NSFW: Now it gets set to private.

          Seems contradictory. Not that that’s a reason for it not to be true of course.