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Elwood P. Dowd said:
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.
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I don't know about /r/philosophy, but /r/science has a bajillion mods, nearly all of whom are either failed scientists or IFLS types who promote political "studies" and delete any post that they disagree with the conclusions of as well as any comment that dares to question the Science™. /r/askhistorians hasn't been a good sub in years as again the mods are leftist academics more interested in pushing their politics than accurate history.

I'd say "average Hot Pockets™ eater" is a fair description of their mods as well.
 
AssignedEva said:
They've strongarmed a couple more largish subreddits that were trying to stay dark. The admin approach appears to be firing warning shots by removing mod access to non-compliant top mods and leaving them only with mod mail; this was /r/Unexpected:
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When the mods capitulated, the access was restored:
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>forced unpaid labour
mister tranny janny, who exactly is forcing you to do all this unpaid labor for a large american technology corporation?
Elwood P. Dowd said:
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?
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this video best describes the type of person you'll find moderating subreddits like that:
 
AssignedEva said:
They've strongarmed a couple more largish subreddits that were trying to stay dark. The admin approach appears to be firing warning shots by removing mod access to non-compliant top mods and leaving them only with mod mail; this was /r/Unexpected:
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It's forced unpaid labour when they don't like it, but it's volunteering when they do. Again why are people letting these people dictate what's okay and what's not okay? (:_(
 
Livestreamfails is back up. The post they made is now locked as they were getting BTFO. Lots of entertainment in there.

"Got completely bitched and is now writing "fuck spez" cryptically - look at the last line of the post. Absolutely pathetic lmao. I bet you thought that will sound super gangster in that marvel movie that's playing in your head."

"MODS: We're protesting the select few who make decisions for the majority without consulting them.

EVERYONE: How are you protesting?

MODS: We, the select few, will make decisions for the majority without consulting them."

"In real strikes/demonstrations people risk a job which they DO FOR A LIVING, WHICH PAYS. THEY ALSO LOSE A DAYS PAY. These loser mods were just virtue signaling and at the first sign of losing something they DO FOR FREE, they gave up. How utterly pathetic."

"Neckbeard 9/11"
 
The CEO of Reddit absolutely has to ban each and every mod of any sub that went black. Just look at this faggorty from /pcgaming

How we got here: Reddit announced changes to API pricing with the sole purpose of killing third party apps(Apollo, RIF, Sync, Boost, etc). /u/spez attempted to trick the wider Reddit community by spinning yarns about how the dev of Apollo threatened him, which was later proven to be a lie and further lied when he stated that the RIF dev never attempted to contact him. /u/spez then had an AMA where he doubled down and dismissed all legitimate concerns about the API pricing change.

Why we decided to join the blackout: From the outset we have known that our subreddit is an outlier amongst the wider Reddit community: We have a large amount of third party app and old.reddit users. This is reinforced by Reddit's own stats. We couldn't let an attack on a significant amount of our users go unanswered. This was overwhelmingly supported in the post we made, before it even got to /r/all and started to be influenced by outside voting.

What's going on now: After extending the blackout past 48 hours, we were contacted by the admin community team about our concerns and opened a conversation, which was our objective. However, Reddit is still steadfastly refusing to negotiate. They are "speaking" to mod teams whose subreddits have indefinitely blackout and playing those mod teams against each other in bids to get them to re-open. In other instances they've threatened specific subreddits to re-open and a few are re-opening and turning into John Oliver fan subs (/r/pics, /r/gifs, /r/art, /r/aww).

Where does that leave /r/pcgaming?: We currently don't believe that Reddit has any intent in ever negotiating in good faith about this particular issue while /u/spez is CEO. That leaves us with scant few choices.

If we continue the blackout we believe, based on reports from other subreddits, that Reddit will simply remove us as moderators and force the sub open anyway. They will put in place mods that don't understand the community, have no idea what kind of tools and SOPs we have created with our own time, money and experience, and may not ultimately serve the community well.

If we maliciously comply in re-opening---the thought was to become a Henry Cavill meme and pic sub---we would be destroying what this is subreddit is all about.

There is one thing that the mod team 100% agrees with Reddit on: We are stewards of this community. We take that responsibility very seriously. We wouldn't be doing this for free if we didn't. We have always tried to foster a place where anybody can come and share news and discuss PC gaming. All of the moderators on this team were regular users of /r/pcgaming at one point in time and we have no desire to cause any long-lasting harm to it. With that said, we believe the best course of action is to re-open the subreddit at midnight EST on June 19th like we had planned.

We would like to end this post with an apology to our users who are going to be affected by these changes on July 1st: We're sorry. We tried to get Reddit to come back to the table but it's clear that Reddit doesn't care. You deserve better and hopefully you can find that if you decide you'd no longer like to be a Redditor. You will always be welcome in our Discord.
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Stomp their feet but will ultimately do nothing since it means giving up the little power they have in their lives. In the end all they did was just annoy people.
 
A post calling for the removal of r/nba mods has hit the front page/all/whatever the fuck idk of Reddit and its more amusing posting about how everyone hates mods.

it's very funny to see these dorks desperately clinging to power while loudly insisting they won while receiving zero support.

if this keeps up we might get some reddit mods killing themselves which would be funny at least.
 
It's crazy that basically this whole thing could have been avoided had they just decided to purchase one of the popular 3rd party apps, or upgraded their own based on what people have been asking. I can't for the life of me figure out why they didn't go with option 1, perhaps there's some legal issue stopping them. But option 2, it's not like they don't know what people are asking for and it's not like they haven't had time to make these changes, they just refuse to do so. I can only assume they've hired a bunch of incompetent activist type workers who can't make changes more complicated than changing CSS.
 
sum ting wong said:
It's crazy that basically this whole thing could have been avoided had they just decided to purchase one of the popular 3rd party apps, or upgraded their own based on what people have been asking. I can't for the life of me figure out why they didn't go with option 1, perhaps there's some legal issue stopping them. But option 2, it's not like they don't know what people are asking for and it's not like they haven't had time to make these changes, they just refuse to do so. I can only assume they've hired a bunch of incompetent activist type workers who can't make changes more complicated than changing CSS.
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Reddit has never made any money, ever. Its' continued existence is at the whims of venture capitalists and the fact that they hoodwinked Conde Nast to buy them. They have the lowest ad revenue per user of any of the major social media sites. Advertisers think investing in reddit is totally pointless.

This is why they can't attract good programming talent, why they can't buy any of the 3rd party apps, and why the IPO their owner is trying to force through is probably what will ultimately kill the site.
 
Maybe I'm just too old for this shit but I cannot understand how obsessed with reddit some redditors are.

The mods are flighty and unreliable. Posts, threads and even entire subreddits can be deleted on a whim. How could anyone get attached to a place like that?

For instance there's been some fuckery in the Foodie Beauty community.

Also in the Amberlynn Reid communities

Everything is so fragile. Learn to post something and walk away. If something looks important, screenshot and save it as it might be gone ten seconds from now. For fuck's sake, don't make a website your entire life.
 
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I'm sure reasonable people like BardFinn would never abuse such a thing by brigading subs they don't like.
 
Can‘t believe no one mentioned r/actuallesbians. It went dark, seemed to be restricted, and is back private.

With it out of commision, the tranny virus will spread throughout reddit. First, it‘ll peak all 2 remaining naïve lesbians on the app, then they‘ll try their hand at normie subs, but every moment their fellow jannies waste deleting their „I wanna be called a gurl uwu“ posts, more normies will peak. We are witnessing Ragnarok.

Btw shout out to saidit, Ovarit, FDS, and maybe even mumsnet for having the chance to survive these rank troon-dens. I hope the admins ack when they lose their jobs cause the platform is worth pennies. With reddit heading toward pulling a tumblr, (fingerd crossed) I wonder what it would take to tank the duumvirate of doom.
 
Elwood P. Dowd said:
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.
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With these 'cut above the rest' mods, whats stopping them from stepping down as mod but still participating in the community by answering questions and submitting quality thought provoking posts? Or is there more to them ans their moderation aside from genuine knowledge on the topic? Youd think someone very enthusiastic about sharing their expertise would rather do that than sort thru spam and reports? Idk, havent used reddit much over the last few years. 2020 stuck inside I did use it a lot and it got overwhelming and stupid so I stopped. I really liked reddit from 7+ years ago. I do think if a massive mod step down movement to protest the 'unpaid labor' portion of this happened, suddenly 95% of reddit goes completely unmodded all at once, they might be able to negotiate not money but better mod tools at least. Or some charity work tax wright off based on hours "worked", idk.
 
ATI Escapee said:
With these 'cut above the rest' mods, whats stopping them from stepping down as mod but still participating in the community by answering questions and submitting quality thought provoking posts? Or is there more to them ans their moderation aside from genuine knowledge on the topic? Youd think someone very enthusiastic about sharing their expertise would rather do that than sort thru spam and reports? Idk, havent used reddit much over the last few years. 2020 stuck inside I did use it a lot and it got overwhelming and stupid so I stopped. I really liked reddit from 7+ years ago. I do think if a massive mod step down movement to protest the 'unpaid labor' portion of this happened, suddenly 95% of reddit goes completely unmodded all at once, they might be able to negotiate not money but better mod tools at least. Or some charity work tax wright off based on hours "worked", idk.
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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.
 
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