/r/pics employing weaponised bureaucracy in the fight against Reddit

dan@lemm.ee to Reddit@lemmy.ml – 950 points – 1 years ago

Having worked at a company that had a massive influx of GDPR requests we weren’t prepared for, this one could actually cause them some trouble if Reddit don’t have that process properly automated.

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Posting pictures of Jon Oliver does nothing. A German reddit mod told me, that the admins themselves suggested that the German mods should do this kind of protest instead of keeping the sub in NSFW mode 🤡. The NSFW action + blackout was the only thing that actually hurt them.

Making popular subreddits NSFW clearly hurts them, because Reddit has been forcing them to switch it off. They've also been forcing subreddits to reopen if they've been restricted. So those two options aren't really very viable for every sub.

I suspect this one hurts them too because this post is not visible any more unless you go directly to it or via the pics subreddit - despite it being newer and having more votes than other posts in there that are on the homepage and in popular.

If even a quarter of the people that upvoted this post clicked through to the request form they're gonna have tens of thousands of these requests to deal with.

Well, switching to NSFW not only limits their revenue to to their self-declared restriction on advertising in those subs, but - and I think this is more important - those subs go dark for the purpose of reddit's front page. They made the change a couple years ago to exclude all nsfw subs from r/all. There was no need to; r/best was already r/all without the NSFW subs. Any sub that is excluded from r/all is invisible to the eyeballs which pay the bills because that's the default home page.

Yeah I mean it's a great idea, but the admins are literally removing moderators from subs that turn themselves nsfw - eg interestingasfuck is still unmoderated and locked.

I mean clearly the best choice for the mods is to comply with removing the nsfw tag but tell their communities that they are not going to be moderating nsfw posts, so please post maximum porn.

Tell Reddit with that action that they can make all the rules they want but it's not going to get the mods to actually follow them.

Problem is they’ll just remove the mods then. The rules around policing nsfw content are pretty well established, mods that don’t do it get quickly removed.

TBH I was originally surprised it didn’t happen more (booting mods ). Realistically, though, getting a 24/7/365 team in place to do modding costs money so I’m sure they’re trying to pick and choose where/when to switch from volunteer to paid help.

Exactly. Especially a subreddit whose entire purpose is posting pictures, why would reddit care if all those pictures are of a single celebrity.

Is there even anything that can be done at this point?

overwriting all your posts multiple times before deleting them and walking away so reddit can die seems like a pretty good option right now. I mean we're already talking about this on lemmy instead of reddit so why not? Corporations need to learn the lessons "don't crap where you eat" and "at war with ~~the product~~ users = your business is done, so respect ~~the product~~ users "