Reddit will remove mods of private communities unless they reopen
(www.theverge.com)
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Fight! Fight! Fight!
I love a good spectacle, especially when both sides suck.
It's a shame they both can't lose.
Both sides are already losers, though.
hey, ever hear of a pyrrhic victory? its possable to win in name only,
I noticed a number of subreddits came back a while ago, but in decidedly passive-aggressive ways. One is read-only and prevents anyone from posting any topic or reply. Another got rid of all its rules and permanently marked every post as NSFW. It's clear they're just trying to exploit loopholes to avoid getting banned while still putting up resistance, but it'll be interesting to see how Reddit deals with them once the admins get sick of their shit.
My favorite was all the gun reddits.
Why? Because the users basically said 'You stupid motherfuckers, reddit wants to ban us given any excuse ALREADY, and you basically went ahead and gave them what they wanted!?'
Funny enough, atleast one subreddit apologized and admitted they were doing a dum-dum, so there's that. Though, weirdly enough, I can't help but feel that the posting habits are... off... for some strange reason after a week or two of being private.
Milsurp is still down, though. Fucking retards.
Wonder if the mods were...replaced? I'd say by pod people, but I'm not so sure Reddit mods really count as people.
R/Steam has been amusingly spammed with memes about steam power and such for the last week or two.
I liked the one that made all million-plus users mods. Made me chuckle.
That's hilarious! That would be a fun sub to be subscribed to.
One of the new tactics I’ve seen is to upload giant video files of static to try to fill up Reddit’s storage.
Lol at Spez the tranny fucker bending the tranny jannies over the sink. Usually it's the other way around.
Have you ever been suspended site wide for wrong think? That's his doing. He's no better than they are, especially since they're only doing this because he's granted them an effective veto over major decisions in the past, giving them every reason to think that this stunt would work. I like watching the tranny jannies get what's coming to them as much as you do, but Spez isn't a good guy here. It's like rooting for one side of a gang war over some godforsaken corner of the crack market.
his pet tranny killed a few of my accounts.
Yep. The power mods threw a fit like this to remove the anti-jab subs and reddit caved in.
Spez is a cuck!
I miss when companies like Reddit were run by rebellious Internet trolls rather than the corporate/Deep State establishment. I hope Reddit gets driven into the ground by their users.
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Just do it anyways! Fuck ‘em and their make-believe power.
As entertained as I am by this, I want to Reddit to not completely collapse so we don't have another Tumblr migration situation.
No. Let's have more of it. Total internet decentralization. Back to phpBB forum format. Power works best when divided.
Anyone know if any good IRC channels?
Let them fight.
The correct answer.
Whoever wins, they'll all remain losers.
What antiwork does to a motherfucker
If the mods were smart, they would know that they have the power, not Reddit, if they held the line. Reddit absolutely can not afford to add a bunch of mods to payroll, nor will they easily find enough people to volunteer their time to fill that many empty mod positions.
You think those people will last? I honestly don't know. I suspect the current mods are mostly sociopaths, but most wanting to replace them probably are too. Still, I think most don't actually realize what they are signing up for.
There are enough woke morons who will volunteer so they get to censor. We had a guy volunteer to mod KiA2, and unfortunately we accepted because we needed more capacity. It was a disaster. He spent months doing absolutely nothing except, no kidding, abuse his power to flagrantly violate the rules. He also converted to being pro-BLM even though they nearly burned his house down.
The only good moderators are those who have no interest in being a mod and who are picked out of the userbase.
Wait, what? Who? When? 🤔
Electroverted. Probably no one you know. He joined somewhere early in 2020, nearly got his home burned down by BLM, and ended the year by shilling for BLM.
I didn't want to name him, because at least he had the minimal decency to resign when I asked him to, instead of forcing me to remove him. But rest assured that he's nowhere near the mod team there or here.
Admin can just take over the subreddit and reopen it. Mods have borrowed power that comes with the disclaimer that their power only exists as long as the mods listen to the admins
Not so sure about the last part. There's always some IRL loser thirsting for power.
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Stop advocating killing people.
Ah, I am glad KiA (Half KiA) is open again, because they'd be chomping at the bits to legitimately strike at them. Let other communities, particularly those run by SJWs, suffer because of this instead.
Champing!
The Verge is just as bad as Gizmodo and its network. These are the people who don't understand the subjects they write authoritatively about.
https://archive.is/r5cDd
Honestly mods should just completely wipe their subs. Delete all posts. Ban all users. Let the admins sort it out while everyone finds someplace else to discuss shuffles cards bouncing DVD logos.
Somehow the active mods of r/programming are keeping it closed despite the top 2 mods being spez and another site admin. Annoying for me, since I'm trying to track down a few comments that might be saved to my Reddit account instead of bookmarks.
That sub is full of commie faggot retards.
Sometimes you can find something useful in a morass of utter garbage. The key is to only visit when you really need something you can't find anywhere else.
Always the disproportionately vocal cancerous lesions of online communities. Even before the mod boycott, I've preferred that subreddits go read-only to keep content (when it qualifies as such) easy to find, not risk admin-purging, and sectioning off the late-comer horde from degrading any residual standards.
I've been irritated that the only sizable center-right tech communities I've found are the *chans, which are almost too much chat-room for my forum.
I have at least 50% of useful comments bookmarked instead of account-saved. I had redditmanager.com attached to my account ages ago for account-saved posts/comments, forgot about it before exporting, then saw it after the blackout. I can't easily verify that one comment I'm looking for (some guy's unique Emacs + Rust setup and workflow) wasn't lost in the blackout.
Edit: Not in r/programming
Remove them all!
Be nice if they could reopen this sub.
https://www.reddit.com/r/fpgagaming
I don't usually go to Reddit, but there are some niche subreddits that sometimes are a source of decent information. That link above is worth is worth going to, just to read the mods whiny "I'm leaving!" post. Not gonna lie, I laughed.
Reddit needs to die, and so does everyone who uses it.