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Reddit Migration@kbin.social – 81 points – 1 years ago

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What a bunch of boners, truly.

Man i wish they'd just leave, reddit knows they cant replace them.

I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of them do, right around July 1. It's good to see some of them are already setting up new communities in the Fediverse. Hope that catches on.

They can and have, is the thing.

There's been a few subs knocked out by Reddit giving the mod roles to a greedy powermod. Some "regular" mods are becoming powermods by playing nice with the admins and requesting huge subreddits.

Reddit isn't bluffing when they say "Open up or we will make you." Some teams are reporting less than 24 hours passing between them getting the "admins are knocking on your door" message and the mod team being removed and replaced with a powermod that moderates 100 other subreddits.

It's becoming obvious that you will be opened, like it or not. If mods want to continue to protest, they need to start doing malicious compliance. Subs are looking closely at Reddit's rules and following them to the letter.

Did you know Reddit considers heavy profanity to be NSFW? So you could mark your community as NSFW and use AutoMod to ensure that every post has a curse word in the title. Then since your community is obviously NSFW Reddit can't advertise on it, because ads don't run on NSFW subs.

Other mods are avoiding this approach in fears that Reddit will just ban NSFW entirely. Those are the John Oliver subs. Reddit says "it can't be a surprise what the sub is about" but clearly there's leeway because /r/trees isn't about trees and /r/marijuanaenthusiasts isn't about marijuana enthusiasts. Hence "only pictures of John Oliver"; if Reddit comes after that then they'd logically be banning /r/trees, /r/anime_titties, /r/196, etc. as well.

Reddit says that it's a democracy (it isn't, admins will always be dictators), and that users should decide the direction of the subreddit. Hence posts asking the users for their input. And of course they're only listening to the demands of the users, after all...

The only way to damage Reddit is from inside Reddit. Make Reddit a miserable experience. They're following all the rules! But it's not a good place to be. Then promote communities elsewhere (also perfectly within the rules) to push people off of Reddit and onto other sites.

And they're just doing exactly what the admins asked them to do, after all.

Yep. Doing "The_Donald" approach is the best way to trigger the death spiral, by making the content so annoying and shitty that normal people simply won't care to go on Reddit anymore.

Annoying normies with protest until they leave is like the politics inverse of campaigns softening their messages to appeal to suburban mothers.

And who is going to mod for them... They don't have nearly enough workforce to do that and if you piss of mods that moderate 50 subs... Well they Stop moderating all of them. Reddit is a dictatorship, but i ask you, what shall they stand on, they cut off their legs.

I don't see many of the main powermods giving up their fake internet power, they'll kowtow.

What a fucking crazy shit show. Thanks for sharing the non-reddit link.

The mother fucking audacity. They're insane. And I dont think you were rude to them at all.

My perspective on this is split. On one hand, "get back to work", when they're not paying anyone for that work, is upsetting. On the other, I'm sure that all the mods know whether or not they want to lead a community on Reddit or not. No one should be allowed to force them to run those communities; but leading troll campaigns isn't going to make anything better. By all means, leave Reddit if that's what you want. Don't pretend to stay just to ruin it for other folks.

Anyone who feels their Reddit experience is being ruined can create new subs to host the content they want to see, and I encourage them to do so. I guarantee it will be an educational experience, especially for anyone who's never been a mod.

Yeah I would suggest they found /r/PicsForScabs /r/GifsForScabs, etc etc etc if any users have a problem with the new direction the communities have voted to go in.

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The correct response is: "You're not my manager!"