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"forced unpaid labour"
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The Jannies have now written an open letter to the Reddit Administration and the wider world, about how the admins are making threats against them. What are these concerning sounding threats - doxing the mods to humiliate them? A crippling lawsuit? Spez coming round and breaking their legs?
No, it's "if you want to shut your subreddit and stop being moderators, we'll just reopen your subreddit with people who are willing to moderate it". You know, the exact thing everyone predicted would happen to powermods if they took the protest past two days.
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LMAO that they actually posted a quote attributed to that failed mongoloid Ellen Pao, the very same one who got future endeavored over the firing of a rare actually useful and paid Reddit employee Victoria. Ironically, unlike now, the same style of "blackout" protest worked back then, probably due to the size difference in IT infrastructure and the fact that pReddit actually needed to rely on their jannys and user base for support at the time. To post up some sort of noble quote is hilarious to me, because she absorbed all of the hate the protest was directed at at the time.

Can someone name a fundamental difference in the interests between some 30 year olds and some 16 year olds these days? I'm not arguing for something, I'm illustrating the point of where our society has gone: perpetual childhood. And I know from reading the forums that many of you are utterly tired of being expected to be enthusiastic about rap music and superhero movies and NEXT BIG MOVIE TO SELL TOYS OMG EVERYONE HAS TO WATCH ITS A CULTURAL PHENOMENON etc. And how badly people just eat this society up.

There's thousands of weird shit and obscure hobbies you could have but nope everyone is this same ctrl+c ctrl+v human. It's not surprising the movie and music section of the farms run the whole gamut of people into different genres and things, whereas with the "normies" it's all what's been served onto their plate. I have a real big issue with how Gen Z and most millennials approach life.

And if your hobby isn't some absolutely "off the shelves at Walmart" thing a lot of people think you're weird. They're literally uncomfortable around things that they don't think a lot of other people they know like. They're over-socialized. You need to have a hobby that is part of SOCIETY you understand!
I think the thought of "eternal childhood" is in the range, but a bit off mark. I would argue it's more mass corporate sanitization than anything else. As an unspecified-age millennial, we were really the first ones to have things like video games and personal computers immersed in our everyday culture, so things like social media and the internet makes the world smaller, so the 16 and 30-something year old both playing Call Of Duty 27 or whatever isn't as unusual as it would be for 2 different generations to share a big cultural interest in 1965. The amount of corporate monopoly that one company like Disney or Amazon has nowadays is absolutely staggering, and if antitrust laws had any teeth like they did 50+ years ago, they would have been broken up before they were even close to this point. But now, we get to enjoy our latest Marvel™️ capeshit adventure, using the same Disney ™️ manufactured assembly line whimsy and drama as the last one. Don't forget to pick up your official Marvel™️ or FOX™️ or Star Wars™️, or Vice ™️ co-branded Funko Pops and other assorted cheap Chinese shit that helps Disney to maintain it's status as the largest worldwide entertainment conglomerate. And if they want to push an agenda, or censor naughty words, or cast anything critical of them as "wrongthink" you bet your Mickey Mouse ass they'll push it through every channel they have available, and you'll pay for it with your latest monthly subscription to whatever they're shilling as well.
I wonder how they will handle stuff like /r/science, /r/philosophy or /r/askhistorians., all currently restricted and all (presumably) with a Mod staff a cut above the average Hot Pockets™ eater? I'm betting they all cave to the Reddit Administration, but we shall see.
Good fucking luck assuming that any mainstream subreddit would have any Tranny-jannies who are worth a damn. The last time I spent any reasonable amount of time on r/science, or pReddit in general, was around the time of the whole Alex Jones "gay frogs" rant. And while he is genuinely crazy, in this case, in his own roundabout way, he was fucking right. When people started posting videos and links to studies showing that Atrazine was causing the hormone issues and that his rants had some basis in truth, comments started getting mass downvoted and deleted. I myself got a 30 day ban from some butt-hurt tranny for telling them that just because they have a blind hatred for someone, it doesn't discount the fact that what he said had some truth to it. That along with a few other issues I've posted about before only further proved to me that aside from very obscure and niche subreddits that have managed to somehow avoid the onslaught of trannys and their HRT fueled mood swings, the entirety of that website is absolutely fucking useless and insufferable, and the best thing for it would be lighting it's entire server room on fire, and using the resulting heat and fire to power the generators that provide the electricity that the Tranny-jannies would use to take their inevitable toaster baths once they realize that pReddit is gone forever.
 
/r/antiwork has reopened
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Statement From The Moderators
Hello, r/antiwork! As you're probably aware, r/antiwork has been set to private until recently in solidarity with the sitewide protest against Reddit's attempt to kill third-party apps. At the start of the protest, we received assurance from Reddit administration that mods have a right to protest and to set their subs private. Today, we received a message from Reddit that our mod team will be replaced if we do not open up the subreddit immediately.
The important takeaway here is Reddit does not care about this community and Reddit does not care about you. They see you as nothing more than a statistic to monetize. They do not care about the quality of this community. They do not care about the desires of the community or the mod team. We set the subreddit private to protect the community from the changes Reddit intends to force through, and Reddit is forcing the subreddit open because a worse user experience for you is more profitable for them.
Going forward, the mod team is going to lose some very important tools that we've relied on to keep you safe from spammers and scammers. This means we're going to have to reassess our rules and procedures in order to serve you more effectively. The mod team will keep you updated on any developments. We thank you for your understanding.
Many thanks,
The r/antiwork mod team

In true /r/antiwork fashion, the users are pretty complacent, continuing to use it as normal and posting "can't be helped"-type comments.
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And the new queue:
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All within the last hour. They are swarming to get in.
 
Nah, I guess I'll say it then. It was that you guys are the only people who would make me root for the Reddit staff. I dunno how you did it but you managed to make me feel sympathy for Reddit mods
Holy shit, you are still here?! I remember your absolutely retarded thread from Mass Debates. No offense, you fucking faggot.
 
Now, me being a mod himself does mean by brain is a bit rusty, but I'll try to get that thing running again. To that end, I think it would be helpful to rephrase the question, who represents the communities better? The people trying to kill them out of spite, or the dude who is forcibly trying to keep them alive?

I don't have much love for Huffman, but, I mean, the answer's not difficult.
"Twisted stance on democracy" is apparently when you let people vote. This could be a good commentary on the current democratic affairs if this wasn't so obviously not the intended message.

That aside, CEO's are voted in.
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I love how they admit that their believes only hold weight as long as they can maintain the illusion of mass-consensus.
They realize the CEO can't force them to work? They can always resign.
 
I'm not sure if the John Oliver thing is like a 6 year old throwing a tantrum when mom won't let them get a candy bar at the checkout line or if it's designed to kill the subs- "if we can't have them, no one can" because normal people are not going to want to see some smug british fuck when they're looking for pics of cute kittens and doggos
Janny claims that the mods are worth over $3.4 million a year to reddit:
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This is like some fat, creepy old dude complaining that women don't sufficiently appreciate that he's willing to have sex with them
 
AskHistorians is a bit of a special case, because they've very strict rules and delete any top level comments that are jokes/memes/off topic or are just unfounded speculation or unsourced assertions (and they don't allow Wikipedia as a source). They also block questions that are too broad/vague, dumb horny questions and also anything more recent than 20 years ago to try and quell political seething.
As a result it usually has some pretty interesting and informative answers but it is often subject to the uninitiated getting angry at the mods for their completely valid "actually I think you'll find that trans women were always sacred priestesses until christianity ruined everything, here's a twitter thread about it" comments.
But yeah, it does mean they actually spend a lot of time reviewing all the comments on every thread and deleting most of them based on their assessments (there's almost 50 of them) and I could imagine new mods not doing that and letting the sub turn into every other subreddit.
There's a very interesting dynamic in terms of mod strategy and quality between /r/AskHistorians and /r/science. AskHistorians mods are focused on emphasizing quality and verifiability of comments. Science seems focused on any study, quality be damned, that just verifies the prior opinions of the average redditor because they have OVER 1500 MODS; of course the only discourse must follow the herd because there's always going to be dozens of mods on who wield there mops as a disagree button. I've said it before, but redditors ruined reddit.
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More than a few redditors are observing that if the complaint is "unpaid labour" then the mods could just accept being removed, since that way they won't have to do that "unpaid labour"... so capitulating because they'd lose their ability to do "unpaid labour" shows how facile that argument is.
They are being paid, just not in money. They clearly do it just to have a tiny little bit of power to lord it over normies despite being the most pathetic people alive in the real world.
 
There's a very interesting dynamic in terms of mod strategy and quality between /r/AskHistorians and /r/science. AskHistorians mods are focused on emphasizing quality and verifiability of comments. Science seems focused on any study, quality be damned, that just verifies the prior opinions of the average redditor because they have OVER 1500 MODS; of course the only discourse must follow the herd because there's always going to be dozens of mods on who wield there mops as a disagree button. I've said it before, but redditors ruined reddit.
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History is a more intelligent and reality based field of study than science. Change my mind.
 
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Now mods in the comments are scared of democracy :story: and repeating the same "You'll never find someone who will be willing to janny as we do". As I said before, jannies are pathetic and weak creatures that use their janny status to abuse and scare people.
"functioning mod teams" my ass, they are the laziest cunts ever
If there's a tranny on the internet, it's creation or origin can be traced back to Tumblr, Neogaf/resetera, GDQ or SA.
Any troon who started there is 40 or near 40 by now

Most troons todays are zoomies in their 20s that grew on tumblr and maybe DA, its literally the faggiest generation so far
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What does reddit premium give you besides ads you can block anyway?
 
John Oliver is Reddit personified so it makes sense. He’s where most Redditors get their opinions and senses of humor from. Remember, they would laugh their asses off about “Donald Drumpf lol!!!!!!!!!!!! “
At the heights of 'Drumpfism', I always wondered why nobody went "Hey you know your old boss changed his name for optics too, let's call it the Daily Show with Jonathan Leibowitz."
 
Don't know if normal link work here. But it a unpopular opinion post. It's a young individual just enjoying his first job at mcdonald? I presume. Obviously the post being a real unpopular opinion it didn't get much upvote.
What is interesting is the comment reaction showing the crab in a bucket mentality. Most of them complaining he will inevatly hate the job or he's a corporate chill in desguise
 
I'm not sure if the John Oliver thing is like a 6 year old throwing a tantrum when mom won't let them get a candy bar at the checkout line or if it's designed to kill the subs- "if we can't have them, no one can" because normal people are not going to want to see some smug british fuck when they're looking for pics of cute kittens and doggos
It's a bit of both. They're throwing their toys out of the pram, but it's also dumbass redditors hopping on the protest bandwagon. It's already been observed that the most important concessions (mod bot api and accessibility api) have been achieved, I think at this point the protests are mostly groupthink ("it's the fun new thing to do"). The main issue with the John Oliver approach (sidenote: have to observe he failed to get a comedy career in the UK because he's so unfunny, so he had to go to America where him being British was a novelty) is it relies on people keeping up the momentum. Eventually the joke about spamming John Oliver will wear thin on these people and they'll get bored posting photos of him. If the mods implemented some automod filter that blocked posts that didn't reference John Oliver, they'd have the subreddit taken off them sooner or later. If they didn't - well, eventually, they'd just be ruling over the ashes. /r/pics and /r/videos exist as hangovers from the era where there were a small number of default subreddits; there's no actual need for a general purpose picture subreddit when you can just subscribe to a variety of subreddits that play host to a range of pictures. Redditors get bored, it's why the only effective protest in this scenario (a mass boycott of Reddit by its users) will never happen. The mods are delusional to think the admins won't just wait them out.

I do actually wonder what would happen if (when?) Reddit went bankrupt. Perhaps it'll continue being propped up at a loss like print newspapers are, because they provide an easy way to manipulate political narratives with the masses ...although I'm not so sure reddit is that effective of a manipulation tool - Americans make up slightly over half of reddit's traffic, yet it's only 0.91% of American social media traffic, and I'm sure those stats are probably even more abysmal in other countries. In the UK (8.4% of reddit's traffic) most younger people have heard of reddit, but it's rare I meet someone who says they're using reddit regularly, and the older generations (who are the larger voting cohort) usually have no idea. If/when reddit goes offline I do wonder what will happen to all the terminally online redditors. I guess they'll all shift to Discord? I doubt that will scratch the same itch.
What does reddit premium give you besides ads you can block anyway?
You get Reddit coins that you can spend on reaction stickers and funny hats for your special reddit avatar (that only people on new reddit can see anyway - although you can pay cash money for reddit avatar NFTs, I'm not joking) plus access to /r/lounge, which is a subreddit for people with reddit gold and reddit premium (it has genuinely no purpose beyond that, and apparently is just people posting about "I got reddit premium lol!!!". The splash page is especially autistic:
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It even has a crest on new reddit:
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It's part of the reason Spez is trying to force everyone onto the new reddit app; the majority of their traffic is phone based, so if you're using an app that won't block adverts unless you've got reddit premium, users are more likely to spend money on reddit premium (and also get exposed to the other monetisation features).
 
Don't know if normal link work here. But it a unpopular opinion post. It's a young individual just enjoying his first job at mcdonald? I presume. Obviously the post being a real unpopular opinion it didn't get much upvote.
What is interesting is the comment reaction showing the crab in a bucket mentality. Most of them complaining he will inevatly hate the job or he's a corporate chill in desguise
I've always found the unpopularopinion subreddit kind of paradoxical and retarded. People won't upvote opinions if they are truly unpopular so the content that makes it on top won't be unpopular opinions.
 
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