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/r/snackexchange, a subreddit about exchanging packages of regional snack items via mail, is the latest victim of the /u/spez coup series (archive)
Here's the new top mod, detailing the events and his reasons for the takeover
Hey all,

/r/snackexchange is under new management.

A rundown of what's happened and where things go from here. I'll try to write from a neutral POV, but of course, everyone is biased, so shrug

  1. The former top mod who, in their own words, stopped moderating years ago, returned to poll the community's desire for blackout participation
  2. The community generally affirmed some desire to participate in the blackout, though the scope/duration/etc. of that was not clearly defined.
  3. Reddit admins forced the sub to reopen, to the extreme displeasure of the former top mod.
  4. As an act of protest or something, the top mod decided to kick out the bot that automatically updated people's flair, and the bot that monitored activity across various donation/charity/exchange subreddits to keep out scammers, exposing the community to potential harm, and, declared that all of the rules of the community (and who is/isn't mod) would have to be re-voted on every single day.
  5. Via community vote, I got put on the mod team. I reached out to the top mod expressing my genuine desire to help manage the subreddit in any way I could. They indicated that they were holding these daily elections as being the next best thing to deleting the subreddit or keeping it private forever.
  6. In response to this, I filed a top mod removal request with reddit admins, which has now been approved.
Where things go from here:

  1. I'm all for community management of rules, as long as that's not being done in a way designed to be an intentional nuisance to the community (I love for example what ProgrammerHumor has done with a weekly rule requiringAllPostsToBeInCamelCase, but saying "we're going to wipe out all the rules every single day" is just intentional mayhem).
  2. I've readded SnackExchangeBot and snackexchangeuslbot. Automatic updates of flair should work again, and scammers should continue to be kept out of the subreddit.
  3. As nearly as possible, I'd love to see the community return to pre-blackout normal operation.
How I plan to ""use my power"":

  1. SnackExchange is a pretty light-touch subreddit. "Problem people" are a rarity here; the anti-scammer bot does an incredibly good job of keeping would-be scammers out, and you'll find that cases of fraud/scam, while they do ever happen, are extremely rare. As such, I genuinely envision myself needing to do very little. I'm always nervous to use the "nah this community just runs itself!" phrasing, but.... it really does come pretty close.
Very-long-term plans:

  1. I'd like to see about implementing some sort of identity verification service for the sub. I'm an IT engineer/developer, so coding is absolutely my forte... Services like Stripe allow people in over 100 countries to match face to government-issued-ID to prove their identity (at a cost of about $1.50 per verification). This would allow a "trusted party" to handle any sensitive documentation, and allow users that haven't participated in any exchanges to prove, with a high degree of certainty, that they're "real". This would be very long term though, I don't see this happening within the next month or two.
  2. (Credit to my discussions with the former top mod for this idea) I think it would be REALLY cool to have some sort of "postage escrow" or similar that could be arranged. Think (extremely oversimplified example) I'm from the U.S., I want to exchange with someone from Madagascar or Afghanistan, I know that paying for international postage in one of those countries could be a huge burden, so I offer, in a secure way, to pay for their postage costs if someone wants to exchange with me.
That's all for now. I'll end this by saying that I fully supported the 2-day blackout, and, fully support those subreddits whose communities are maintaining an on-going effort to protest Reddit's upcoming changes. I think the API changes were hastily announced, recklessly planned, and I think the CEO of Reddit has been proven to be a liar and maliciously deceitful, especially in regards to the communication that happened with Apollo's dev. I fully hope he gets ousted soon, and think that Reddit would be a better place without his leadership. However, I'm extremely opposed to intentionally sabotaging communities (daily democracy mayhem, removing the bots that keep scammers out) as a form of protest. Due to the personal information that gets exchanged here, we're already 18+ by necessity, which has the unintentional side effect of making this a subreddit from which Reddit gets no advertising revenue anyways.

If that makes me a "scab mod", so be it. All I want is for the community that helped open my eyes to the outside world years ago, to continue to be able to do that for others. Connecting in real-world ways with other cultures and countries has repeatedly been shown to be one of the best ways of maintaining societal progress and curtailing racist ideologies.
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Possibly his more interesting bit is wanting to get users of his newly acquired sub to submit face pics and ID pics to verify themselves using an automated facial ID system that costs $1.50 per verification!?! The scab jannies seem to be a new breed when it comes to doing it for free.
Anyway, the redditors are out in force to scab-bash with this thread being only 15% upvoted.
As expected, the jannies have seen this and are not happy (archive)
I love how he just assumes the bots will keep working? Does he have the source code?
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Attentive readers will notice that the only one who removed the bots was in fact, the inactive top janny who threw a fit, and the new top janny claims to be a coder by profession. I feel like the botting will continue, even if it's not the specific bots from before. Someone else replies to this with the bot's github page, because it's open source.
nice, my request for a dead subreddit with 200 subscribers is denied and a guy with comparable karma and account age got his request for a live subreddit with 120k subscribers approved. Only difference is mod experience, he got none. Should probably work more on my cocksucking skill...
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How dare those admins care more about a sub with 125k users than one that barely existed in the first place
The tone of this person is so cringy and infuriating. The fucking gall to be added on as a brand new mod and instantly suck the admins dick to get the head mod removed is such a shit thing to do that only the shittiest kind of person would be okay with.
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The gall of this person who decided to suck the right dick instead of mine! I can't even
At least he knows he’s a scab. Disgusting how he thinks he can waltz in and take over. Good luck without the bots.
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He clearly thought correctly, because he did just waltz in and take over.
My only quip is - with reddit making it abundantly clear they're going to violate user protection laws as of late (they're undeleting user comments), with some important queer and various support groups permanently gone, and with how spez talked about how he pretty much hates the user base... I don't believe this site will return to how it was.
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I'm not sure what queer groups he's talking about, but I'm sure every redditor will be able to find one of the 10,000 others on reddit to post about how fictional character says trans rights.
Anyway, there's your update in the current Game of Mops
 
Total jannie death has been declared by the admins (archive) (Excuse the double post)
We just received the following threat"friendly notice" to one of our subreddits that has elected to remain closed.

u/ModCodeofConduct
Hi all,
The last time we messaged you, you were still discussing your mod team’s plans to re-open your community, had decided to close your community indefinitely, or had not responded to us. Per Rule 4 of the Moderator Code of Conduct, moderators are required to be active and engaged within their communities. Given this, we encourage you to reopen. Please let us know within the next 48 hours if you plan on re-opening.
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Short and to the point, with a real "We're done asking nicely" air to it.

Nice, Reddit Inc, Real Nice

It's worth noting that we did respond to the message, multiple times, and they ignored us. So the whole "you had not responded to us" is complete bullshit.
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Shocking and appalling that the reddit bot didn't respond to every individual janny's screeching. That's tyranny!
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HOW CAN SHE USE THE API!?!
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Yes, I'm sure reddit HQ is burning down at the moment because jannies sent rude replies
 
Dumb Reddit Jannies not understanding that they don't own the content they posted on someone else's platform is hilarious. Suffer Jannie niggers.

It's funny how the Tumblr abscess bursting caused Reddit and Twitter to get ultra pozzed and now Twitter and Reddit are popping. Seems like they are gonna poz the Fediverse like a plague of locusts consuming everything.
 
I'm recreating the comment-deletion comment experiment with an account I only used for plant stuff to see if things get restored. I'll let you guys know how it goes if I remember.
 
StacticShock said:
all of the talk in this reddit protest is trying to harm spez so that he buckles down.
nevermind just stop using reddit for a few days, literally, don't access that shit for a week and see the site break.
i know it's fucking impossible for these demented faggots, just pointing out though.
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They’re about as likely to stop as all of those retards that promised to leave Twitter for Mastadon. They bitch and complain about someone they think is LITERALLY A NAZI, yet incessantly post on the very site that helps fund him. If that isn’t an addiction I don’t know what is. If Null trooned out and made KF run with Reddit rules I, and I think most of us, would just stop posting here.
 
RussianParasite said:
They’re about as likely to stop as all of those retards that promised to leave Twitter for Mastadon. They bitch and complain about someone they think is LITERALLY A NAZI, yet incessantly post on the very site that helps fund him. If that isn’t an addiction I don’t know what is. If Null trooned out and made KF run with Reddit rules I, and I think most of us, would just stop posting here.
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I'm sure most were making empty promises to go to Mastodon, but Mastodon's existing userbase was so hostile to the very idea of accepting Twitter refugees that the few checkmarks who did attempt to migrate over were relentlessly harassed off of the site.
 
Absolutego said:
I'm sure most were making empty promises to go to Mastodon, but Mastodon's existing userbase was so hostile to the very idea of accepting Twitter refugees that the few checkmarks who did attempt to migrate over were relentlessly harassed off of the site.
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Wtf I love Mastadon now?

yydszmiteg2 said:
It's funny how the Tumblr abscess bursting caused Reddit and Twitter to get ultra pozzed and now Twitter and Reddit are popping.
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If gamergate was the 9/11 of the internet then this has to be the Black Death in 1300’s Europe.
 
ABANDON ALL HOPE, JANNIES. EGG_IRL IS BEING THREATENED (by a takeover by some other janny) (archive)
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As you could imagine, this has caused a bit of upset
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No, stalker child, we didn't abandon the sub, we simply fucked it up and allowed no stalker children to post, child!!! In fact, this means you are against all forms of protest! Enjoy reddit jail!
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I guess their "protest" was only allowing posts of eggs instead of John Oliver. Hilarious, guys
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I guess the last mod active is just trying to shill lemmy or something
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Guys Gals, should people actually take part in "communities" that they "moderate"? Imagine "representing" a board you haven't posted on for 60 days, lmao.
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Finally, the killshot on OP's application: We changed the rules of the subreddit, chasing away normal users. BUT we'll graciously let you vote on this rule change at an uncertain point in the future after nobody else uses it. That's how democracy works! Reddit is truly run by the community!
I will give the mods one thing, at least they're commited to ruining the absolute wastes of space on reddit as well as the ones that are still usable. They didn't give into the normal janny-think of "this meme subreddit literally saves lives of trans youth everywhere". Perhaps janny solidarity isn't completely dead. :\
 
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was this noted anywhere as a thing?
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Edit : Found it 11 mounth ago post
TL;DR

Community Points are being migrated to Arbitrum Nova, a scaling network on the Ethereum mainnet.

Mainnet requires network fees (“gas”). For now, Reddit will pay gas fees for distributing Points and spending them on Special Memberships and other premium features. Users will need to pay gas fees to gift or tip Points to other users. In order to pay for these gas costs, users can buy ETH on the Reddit platform through FTX, our crypto exchange partner.

Moon balances in Vaults will be automatically migrated to mainnet. After the migration is complete, we will provide a bridge that can be used to migrate other Moons.

The migration may take several days to complete. During that time, Moons will not be available to use. We will update this post when the migration is complete.
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Anonitolia said:
infinitely better than the ""content"" the actual sub put out
should've stayed that way
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I feel like you could flip the entire mod team by publishing a Babylon Bee or Blaze article about how the troons are saving the children from trooning. It would be an immediate reopening if conservative praise of them got popular on twitter. It would be reopened in 10 minutes
 
StacticShock said:
all of the talk in this reddit protest is trying to harm spez so that he buckles down.
nevermind just stop using reddit for a few days, literally, don't access that shit for a week and see the site break.
i know it's fucking impossible for these demented faggots, just pointing out though.
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Frankly if I was a reddit janny, I'd have harmed spez by coordinating with antifa terrorists or some shitty group to post cp, Gore and the like. That's the best tactic to usually get corpo admins to comply, tarnishing their creation and control. 4chan seems to have mastered it with tay, with it's okay to be white, with the Tumblr wars and whatnot.
 
Drama Fan said:
ABANDON ALL HOPE, JANNIES. EGG_IRL IS BEING THREATENED (by a takeover by some other janny) (archive)
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As you could imagine, this has caused a bit of upset
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No, stalker child, we didn't abandon the sub, we simply fucked it up and allowed no stalker children to post, child!!! In fact, this means you are against all forms of protest! Enjoy reddit jail!
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I guess their "protest" was only allowing posts of eggs instead of John Oliver. Hilarious, guys
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I guess the last mod active is just trying to shill lemmy or something
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Guys Gals, should people actually take part in "communities" that they "moderate"? Imagine "representing" a board you haven't posted on for 60 days, lmao.
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Finally, the killshot on OP's application: We changed the rules of the subreddit, chasing away normal users. BUT we'll graciously let you vote on this rule change at an uncertain point in the future after nobody else uses it. That's how democracy works! Reddit is truly run by the community!
I will give the mods one thing, at least they're commited to ruining the absolute wastes of space on reddit as well as the ones that are still usable. They didn't give into the normal janny-think of "this meme subreddit literally saves lives of trans youth everywhere". Perhaps janny solidarity isn't completely dead. :\
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Imagine abandoning your sub, refusing to let people post, and then they get mad at you. Luckily everyone in this situation is a tranny, so I'm just laughing that their grooming forum got axed
 
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