So IAMA is practically dead...

Elkaki123@vlemmy.net to Reddit Migration@kbin.social – 1 points –
reddit.com

For those that dont want to look at the link:

"effective immediately, we plan to discontinue the following activities:

  1. Active solicitation of celebrities or high profile figures to do AMAs.

  2. Email and modmail coordination with celebrities and high profile figures and their PR teams to facilitate, educate, and operate AMAs. (We will still be available to answer questions about posting, though response time may vary).

  3. Running and maintaining a website for scheduling of AMAs with pre-verification and proof, as well as social media promotion.

  4. Maintaining a current up-to-date sidebar calendar of scheduled AMAs, with schedule reminders for users.

  5. Sister subreddits with categorized cross-posts for easy following.

  6. Moderator confidential verification for AMAs.

  7. Running various bots, including automatic flairing of live posts"

I feel this was Reddit biggest sub, and probably the most prestigious. Wonder what the effect will be on reddit overall and if reddit will replace the mods.

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It's funny... Moderators are SO hungry for power that they just can't let go. If the moderators for huge subs like IAMA, PICS, etc. dropped the cutesy meming bullshit "protests" and just simply quit doing the job for free, some damage could actually be done to reddit.

But these people are simply too invested in the communities they built and in love with the power they have to let go of the dead corpse they are clinging to.

It's weird, I always thought the "power hungry mods" thing was a bit of a running joke spread by people who'd been annoyed about a mod decision or two - it's really surprised me how true it's been proven to be and how many actually folded when threatened to be removed.

There's been a pretty wide range of responses, and while some boil down to that, I think the general trend is attachment and people fearing the result of some rw 'scab' taking over. Elkaki above's comparison to an abusive relationship feels really on the mark.

Even without all that though, sometimes it's genuinely hard for people to break habits; and many of these habits are years old. Doesn't really come down to region or logic.

but that's what this post is, they're quitting. did you reply in the wrong thread or something?

Running and maintaining a website for scheduling of AMAs with pre-verification and proof, as well as social media promotion.

This is the big one - as it's off-reddit, any new mods will have to set their own up from scratch.

I haven't been on that sub for a long time, but have they mentioned plans to migrate to another platform? That'd be a nice slap in the face to reddit.

Hopefully all of the really massive subs with real pull migrate away from reddit.