Update: The Verge has now posted about this:
Things are moving fast again, so this is going to be another quick and dirty post… Reddit is now removing mod teams without any pretense of speaking for mode…
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yep, the entire 22-account (i think) team at r/mildlyinteresting got booted about half an hour or so ago and now the sub has an advert to ask for it in redditrequest
https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/65577/Entire-mod-team-on-r-mildlyinteresting-removed-and-locked-out-of
There’s no way to effectively protest a corporation on its own platform. It controls the platform, it can and will change the rules or enforce them unequally just to shut you up, and there’s nothing you can do about it.
I feel sort of bad for the bootlickers who are trying to take advantage of the situation for their own ends. With the precedents being set, they’re going to have even less authority to run the subs when it’s done and their sucking up will mean nothing.
The only good move is to leave.
At least we can hope that this will severely damage the ipo.
True but they can go anytime. In the meantime they’re making a fuss, keeping the issue alive in the news and making Reddit take action instead of making it easy for them.
E.g. “If you want me gone fire me because I’m not quitting so you can save face.”
Wait, so people can post crazy content to those now unmoderated subs? Did they not think this through or do they now have paid moderators?
Definitely time to try it out. See if the scabs really knew what they signed up for.
No they restricted them to new posts.
How far is he willing to take this? I mean AskHistorians hasn’t gone full NSFW yet - but they are in a protest mode. Albeit one that still will end up producing decent content, just less frequently.
The AskHistorians team is the closest thing to irreplaceable, I’d be very surprised if even he’s stupid enough to pick that particular hill to die on.
Not a chance. Even though they want to Instagram the shit out of Reddit, the respect for /r/askhistorians is basically universal. It’s THE quality subreddit, without question. No other compares.
I don’t think Reddit cares. People talk about well run subs as good things but reddit admins don’t really see mods as curators they see them as janitors. They don’t like it when mods curate subreddits they want up votes to be the only thing that matters.
I doubt askhistorians really has the numbers (the numbers the imaginary advertiser or investor demands) to do anything to fight back.
they need engagement! Not removed posts and comments! Clickbait and especially ragebait are number makers not these posts with 90 % removed comments.
I respectfully disagree. A sub like AskHistorians generates tons of traffic for the site via google searches alone. It’s also got 2 million subscribers that happily remain subscribed for the quality content with all the spam filtered out.
Google hits are probably the least valuable page view. They have killed far bigger subreddits for far dumber reasons. Like AMA. Is history a highly valuable advertising interest? I have no idea but I’ve never seen a history based advertisment.
Knew this would happen since before day one … still a shame to see it actually happen though.
“Damn you, human cattle! You get right back in your stanchions and stand there quietly while we milk you for your precious, precious content!”
Naw we jumped ship before it sank, this place will only grow and it’s a better direction.
Even if they reversed course I wouldn’t go back
Me either. Virtually finished wiping my account, just waiting on a sub to go public before deleting.
When your ship’s bow has been driven into an iceberg and water is flowing into the hull, there is no longer an option to reverse course. Ask the orchestra to play you a farewell tune, because they’re going down with you.
The beatings will continue until morale improves.
But posting NSFW is allowed in Reddit, if the rules of the subreddit allows it. So changing the rules is within the rules.
They are altering the deal. Pray they don’t alter it any further.
Actually, pray they do.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31HaTbWONmQ
I remember thinking T_D was crazy for calling out spez. Even when he edited their comments on the database side.
Well, they’re still crazy but they were right about one thing: spez is a clown
Editing their comments (which was a wave of fuck you spez pings) was a personal tantrum. As a human being, I could sort of get where it would seem mischievous and justified to go and throw it back at someone else. Awful judgment, huge breach of trust, but understandable from the POV of someone who just wants to be petty and immature for a moment. I can relate.
As part of a broad pattern though, he clearly has issues veiling his annoyance and contempt for his own users.
All of these were purged. The list is still growing as they’re being reported in the modcoord Discord
r/TIHI r/Celebrities r/interestingasfuck /r/mildlyinteresting r/ShittyLifeProTips r/Self r/IllegalLifeTips
Paint Hufferman swings the axe… only to lop off his own wang in the process.
@stopthatgirl7 well it was either this or a complete nsfw ban. Reddit wouldn’t needs content, eyeballs and ad friendlY. Besides how dare a user protest/sarcasm 🙄
Spez, I’m impressed on just how badly you mishandled so many issues in this on the site you help found. It’s incredible…