Fighting Back: PoliticalHumor Breaks Down Barriers by making ALL subscribers Moderators

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The protests get even more creative. PoliticalHumor mods have set it so that if you subscribe to the community you can now do moderator actions through comments.

No more "Landed Gentry" here, just a total shitshow of deleted comments and lack of cohesive moderation.

They can't ban all of us

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Spez later revealed an exciting new idea for a system where users will be able to vote moderators out of their positions and install new ones. This type of pure democracy on a site like reddit is bound to be wildly successful and incorruptible. But, there's only one problem: At the pace it takes reddit to develop new mod tools and systems, it'll be years before such a system is ready. That clearly will not do in a society built on instant gratification.

That is why the r/PoliticalHumor mod team would like to announce that starting today we are bringing pure democracy to the subreddit: All users are now mods, and as such, are part of the "Landed Gentry". Welcome to the club.

That's brilliant!! 1 million and 500 thousands users, hilarious.

That is incredible. It's hilarious, it's satirical, it's a sharp criticism and it absolutely hammers the stupidity of every Reddit statement home.

What a great team.

@dingus this is my favorite protest so far and I love how creative subreddit mods are getting - one last salting of the earth before they quit the site for good!

I especially love that this is going to give all other subreddits that are still in protest the idea of doing the same thing, or build on the idea. genius.

it really is very refreshing. I am oddly comforted by seeing there's still a fighting spirit among many internet users

This is a great protest technique that I think everyone can get behind because it's fun. It might actually increase engagement in the short term as everyone wants to mess around with it, but in the long term if this stays active it hurts the subs actual usability.

Not exactly what happened they made a bot that will take a limited set of commands but you not actually a mod. It's more of a joke (obviously). All you can really do is lock and unlock and remove comments for people under a certain score

It doesn't matter IMO, it's very smart and hilarious nonetheless, their post about it is a masterpiece.

I think spez forgot that Redditors will burn it down just for the show.

We've all been saying for years that we all hate Reddit desire using it daily. To u/spez's surprise, we weren't lying, we just didn't have a good excuse to destroy it at the time.

I am itching so much for the perfect episode of John Oliver's Last Week Tonight commemorating the most absurd but effective protest in histor, sounding off the whole mess of a situation and poking some more at spez. It'll be a feast.

God the timing is awful with this and the writer strike going on. I really hope they come to an agreement, first and foremost so the writers get paid properly and the other things they've asked for but I can't lie and say I don't want a new episode of Last Week Tonight covering all the reddit drama. I just really hope the strike doesn't last so long that it's not news enough to put on the show.

This is honestly my favorite. All the concern trolls saying there are millions of people who would love to be mods now have the opportunity.

Oh my god. How can they even do that. I stand in awe, this is flawless. Please god, let the news get hold of this one.

It looks like they've done it through automod actions, so if you type a comment like "!lock" automod will lock the thread for you. Other things like downvoting a comment to below -8 results in the user in question receiving a temporary ban. Apparently they are hard at work on new commands to let all users run roughshod over the sub.

Your wish is our command: Here are your new moderator permissions.

  • To lock the comments on any post, simply comment !lock as a top-level comment on any post.
  • To unlock the comments on any post, vote the AutoModerator stickied comment on each post high enough, and comments will be unlocked.
  • To lock any comment on any post, reply to it with "!lock".
  • To temporarily ban any user, simply get their comment or post to a -8 score.
  • To remove any submission, reply to a submission with a top level comment of !remove. Must have sufficient subreddit-level karma.

In 2006 I was named Time's Person of the Year. Today I was selected to moderate my first subreddit.

Outstanding move. If more subreddits did this it would very quickly overload Reddits servers with API requests.

Man, these are the funniest days of my life. Everyday is a complete shit show in the dump fire.

Anyone remember Conan's final week at NBC? After Leno pulled a corporate coup d'etat to return as host of The Tonight Show.
The comedy gods were truly with Conan during that strange, intense and cathartic week of late night television.

You a ZZT fan, or just ASCII generally? That little man avatar is giving me flashbacks to when Tim Sweeney was my fucking hero

"ohshitnowwhat" - admins, probably

I suppose we should brace ourselves for the introduction of SuperMods or w'ev.

It just gets better and better. Mods are getting creative now, this is great.

By the way, we now have Political Humor here on kbin:

https://kbin.social/m/PoliticalHumor

If you find it of interest, consider subscribing.

Thanks, will do!

EDIT: Huh, I'm subscribed to a few kbin.social magazines already, but I'm struggling to get lemmy.ml to see the PoliticalHumor magazine on kbin.social. When I finally get my Lemmy instance to see it, I'll subscribe.

EDIT 2: subbed!

You need to search for the full url; e.g. search for https://kbin.social/m/PoliticalHumor in the Lemmy search bar up top.

I dislike this since it's "wrong". Everywhere else (Kbin, Mastodon, etc.) would accept a search for @PoliticalHumor@kbin.social instead. Lemmy's just different in a weird way.

Actually, what worked for me was https://lemmy.ml/c/PoliticalHumor@kbin.social. Just a relative path link instead of an absolute path link.

I do wish it worked a little better as well, but I can't complain too much. I think it's more of an issue of waiting on the magazine to be federated out, since it was only made today.

Can I subscribe to this when I'm Part of feddit? I'm on mobile and don't See the sidebar where it usually gives me what i have to search.

https://feddit.de/c/PoliticalHumor@kbin.social should be the relative-path-link from your instance. You can also search for it in your communities tab with "!PoliticalHumor@kbin.social" as your search string (minus quotation marks).

It's a relatively new community and my instance can't see it yet because it hasn't been federated out to other instances yet. So it might take a few more hours, or a day or two, before it shows up in your search or the link doesn't return a 404 community not found error.

EDIT: It finally appeared on my instance.

Ah, so the 404 is expected until the link federated out?

Thank you for this. I wasn't sure if I'd need another account

I just love how all the communities get to stick it to spez

I already want all of the other subs to do the same. CHAOS!

I will be fascinated to see how the admins attempt to deal with this

Never fight with community ... internet has no border and your website is one of infinity

Also Reddit IPO will be nuked pretty hard

I just love how all the communities get to stick it to spez

Hahaha, every post is either full of deleted comments or just locked, this is by far the most original one so far.