I think this is the death knoll for the protest unfortunately. Shitposting hurts the user experience, but it doesn't really hurt reddit. In a week or two the casual users will revolt against the protests and the mods will feel like they have lost popular support and cave.

Hopefully enough people have fully left the platform to cause reddit some pain. But honestly I think reddit would rather have a smaller easier to manipulate user base of new users rather than keeping all the oldest and most cynical users.

[–] darkmugglet@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's burning the barn down. Sure, new subs will happen, but they will be harder to find, and they need to re-establish the rules. It also makes monetization hard. All those ads sold against specific subs are worthless. And now reddit doesn't know what subs it can sell ads against. Basically they can only sell ads generally to the entire site. This hits Reddit in the wallet. Also, it mucks up selling the data to AI companies.

Long term, I think you are correct. But short term reddit is trying to IPO. This whole protest will devalue any IPO and cause investors to think twice.

[–] GunnarRunnar@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think it's obvious that Reddit will remove the mods if shit posting continues.

[–] quirzle@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I also think it's obvious this isn't the quick fix people keep pretending it is.

Pick a totally new user? Might be a shitty mod and not able to handle the shitposting anyway.

Pick an existing mod that's willing to play ball? That's what they did with /r/piracy, which is now John Oliver themed anyway.

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