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The r/Piracy sub did a brigaded poll and are now only allowing pirate photos of John Oliver, or whatever. It's even more cringey than the other ones. The r/melbourne Australia sub is only allowing posts about Melbourne, Florida - which is at least an actual joke?

Both of these are dumb for different reasons - Piracy isn't ad-friendly so just doubling down would probably be more effective. And any local sub is too small to do anything but annoy users. Ironically the soft protest where they don't mod as much would improve the site.

Spez is a moron and the mods managed to lose the PR battle to him. I think the "landed gentry" line struck a nerve, and he knew it would set them off and make them emotional.
r/piracy's Lemmy fork summarizes the whole topic for me.
>be mods of r/piracy
>Reddit blackout happens & you participate
>migrate over to Mastodon
>don't bother to edit the megathread, copy it over wholesale
>it continues to link to a subreddit that is private & nobody may read it so it's useless
>people complain & ask if it may be edited
>rather than tell people to put cache: in front of the URL or change the links to rentry you just start banning people
>this takes longer than posting some very basic advice but bans make you feel important
>once your purge-sperg is through traffic is down 90% & dropping

Spez is slime but he is aware that he is tard-wrangling lesser slime who don't qualify as human outside of legal context. Reddit moderators will never win because there is no lower form of life on the planet.
 
If they had even a hint of backbone, they would simply stop working for free for Reddit. But that would mean giving up on their precious moderator powers, which they are addicted to.

I mean, think about it: They are working without compensation to enrichen the very person they hate the most, spez. Who in return treats them with complete disdain. Yet they are too terminally online to do anything else with their sad lives, so they continue to janny for him like serfs. And spez, like the greedy corporate asshole he is, are happy to exploit those fucking losers.

In fact, if I were spez, I would simply auction out mod-privileges to the biggest subs. I have no doubt, that many of the most power-addicted moderators would actually pay money to work for spez. They would cut back on their frozen pizza and soda budget, in order to be reddit jannies. They are that pathetic.
 
What pisses me off about the failed Reddit protest...
So he's disappointed that the jannies bent the knee because they were predictably too addicted to the feeling of pushing a broom around and censoring opposing viewpoints.

I hope he's learned exactly why we have a reddit thread in a lolcow board here, and that he stops holding redditors in such high regard.
 
So he's disappointed that the jannies bent the knee because they were predictably too addicted to the feeling of pushing a broom around and censoring opposing viewpoints.

I hope he's learned exactly why we have a reddit thread in a lolcow board here, and that he stops holding redditors in such high regard.
tbh, Louis is a Redditor and he mentioned a couple of times that he got high views and his right to repair activism got attention is because of Reddit. So in a sense, he does have a thing for Reddit. I wish he'd do to Reddit what he did to GrapheneOS, but I guess that's a bit too optimistic.
 
tbh, Louis is a Redditor and he mentioned a couple of times that he got high views and his right to repair activism got attention is because of Reddit. So in a sense, he does have a thing for Reddit. I wish he'd do to Reddit what he did to GrapheneOS, but I guess that's a bit too optimistic.
Actually, he says in the video that he drew a line in the sand and is strictly no longer using Reddit. Good on him.
 
So he's disappointed that the jannies bent the knee because they were predictably too addicted to the feeling of pushing a broom around and censoring opposing viewpoints.

I hope he's learned exactly why we have a reddit thread in a lolcow board here, and that he stops holding redditors in such high regard.
He needs to understand that for the most part these jannies are a strain of the same disease that's getting him doorbell unpersoned, as reported by Josh last week.
 
wanted to post this guy's reply as copypasta, i thought it was pretty good:

Ok time to break out the crayons. Running a massive sub is not only a shit ton of work, it requires some Knowledge on bots (or at least someone on the team better have that), thick skin to not take shit personally, judgment, and commitment. Yeah you could get some volunteers, but the vast majority of them will have no clue what they are signing up for, unless they have done the job. They will either stumble or will not offer the time needed. Subs have gone as far as having minimum number of tasks completed to make sure that people were doing their share. Bottom line is, yes there are people out there that could do it, but there are more people who will take the spot and immediately see they are overmatched.
Let's say for hypothetical numbers, 10 largest subs have their mods shitcanned and replaced. I am willing to bet that more than half of those subs have major issues going forward.
 
What pisses me off about the failed Reddit protest...
This guy has kind of annoyed me in the past but he got it 100% right on this one. Also great reviewbrah meme at the end. And nice kitties.
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Just ban everyone that would vote against you :^)
Churchill get back in the fucking grave.
Actually, he says in the video that he drew a line in the sand and is strictly no longer using Reddit. Good on him.
In the latest one? Cause in the one before that he was still using it albeit it in a jewish "I'm not actually saying God" sorta way.

Anyway, more mods complaining about being "serfs". Despite saying that they will allow democratic rule changes, they did not allow democratic rule changes
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r/piracy's Lemmy fork summarizes the whole topic for me.
>be mods of r/piracy
>Reddit blackout happens & you participate
>migrate over to Mastodon
>don't bother to edit the megathread, copy it over wholesale
>it continues to link to a subreddit that is private & nobody may read it so it's useless
>people complain & ask if it may be edited
>rather than tell people to put cache: in front of the URL or change the links to rentry you just start banning people
>this takes longer than posting some very basic advice but bans make you feel important
>once your purge-sperg is through traffic is down 90% & dropping

Spez is slime but he is aware that he is tard-wrangling lesser slime who don't qualify as human outside of legal context. Reddit moderators will never win because there is no lower form of life on the planet.
It really is all about that crumb of power that a reddit janny feels. Thats all it ever will be. They can't do it anywhere else in life so that's what they freak out about. It happen's on discord and it happens everywhere else that this mindset is at. You notice it doens't happen too much outside of law enforcement or the military.
 
In the latest one? Cause in the one before that he was still using it albeit it in a jewish "I'm not actually saying God" sorta way.
Yes, in the "What pisses me off about the failed Reddit protest" video.

I do agree that it doesn't mean much if he continues to talk about Reddit in passing without saying its name though.
 
Yes, in the "What pisses me off about the failed Reddit protest" video.
Sorry, I didn't watch it, 'cause all of his other reddit videos about this were, at best, very naive. Did he also stop accepting copy+pasted Reddit submissions (post copied word for word from Reddit), or is he actually taking a genuine stand?
 
I can't wait for AI to replace all mods. Even the most pozzed-programmed AI is still better than organic meatbags. I'd rather a roomba as the cleaner than some fat eunuch gender studies activist who thinks they're king of a fiefdom instead of just a janitor.

Saw someone saying "How was the protest worthwhile?" It was worth it for finally instilling fear into these entrenched tranny jannies. The only way it could have gone better is if they were all removed regardless of if they prostrated. Fingers crossed though that it'll still happen.

The whole temper tantrum was over it becoming less convenient for these mods to use bots to rule over dozens of subreddits. Why not just skip the mods part? AI has proven itself to be less robotic and more human than autistic basement dwellers anyway.
 
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