Ripples Through Reddit as Advertisers Weather Moderators Strike
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Reddit is redirecting some impressions away from existing communities, and some advertisers are pausing campaigns.
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I suspect a lot of subs will come back online just so they can publicly coordinate and announce their permanent shutdowns or migrations to somewhere else. If Reddit doesn't relent by June 30 (or maybe even if they do), I think we'll see a lot of communities permanently go dark.
I sure hope so. I just saw /r/technology is open again, no word about the next steps. If this is all that is going to happen then nothing will change much.
Did r/technology ever go dark? Maybe I’m confusing it with another sub, but I thought that one was modded by an actual Reddit admin/employee and wasn’t participating?
Just because you find that life's not fair, it
Doesn't mean that you just have to grin and bear it
If you always take it on the chin and wear it
Nothing will change
Even if you're little you can do a lot, you
Mustn't let a little thing like "little" stop you
If you sit around and let them get on top, you
Might as well be saying you think that it's okay
And that's not right
And if it's not right, you have to put it right
My 8 year old has been non-stop singing the Matilda the Musical soundtrack since we saw it in theatres months ago and this verse of "Naughty" just perfectly encapsulates how I feel about the reddit situation (among others)
Yeah, I recall some subs I'm in explicitly said they'd blackout for two days, then reopen and ask users what they want to do, which is an extremely reasonable approach.
I plan to check in tomorrow for exactly that reason and everyone else here should, too. If the people who agree with the blackout don't go back tomorrow to announce their support for an indefinite blackout, it shifts the ratio of remaining people in favour of ending the blackout.
And even for those who don't intend to return to reddit, the blackout is a good thing because it will drive further people to sites like this. We need content creators. I don't think we've hit critical mass yet. And the front page feels very dominated by news about reddit, which does not have long term potential. This site cannot be just a place to complain about reddit.
Why would that be needed though? They can put info on their private front page, and the mods can coordinate behind the scenes.
I'm a mod of a group of related subreddits that are all part of the same fandom community. We've been polling our members each step of the way so we can represent their interests and not just shut down because the mods wanted to. Our subs voted to stay dark for a week, and on the 19th we will reopen, but Restricted, so we can poll again to see what our next steps, as a community, are. We won't just pull the plug on our communities without their consent, and while we're dark we're researching alternative platforms to rehome on if that's needed.
The whole "we've been polling our members" thing feels a little sanctimonious to me. You're the moderators, make a call. If the users don't like it they can do the same thing they could do any other time they disagreed with moderators, make a new subreddit and moderate it themselves.
Edited to add, even if you want to poll them there's no need to open in the meantime. Link to a stawpoll on your locked page. Direct people to discord, or here, to engage. By engaging on Reddit all you're doing is proving spez right that this will blow over.
It's not sanctimonious. We care what our members think and feel. We have the open support of the author we're the fandom for, even saying he'd follow us to a new platform if the community decided to go to one. There's nothing sanctimonious about caring about a community and letting the collective decide what to do. We don't "own" the community, we caretake it. We don't exercise power without the fans being behind it.