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Reddit calls for “a few new mods” after axing, polarizing some of its best (arstechnica.com)
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[–] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 53 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Interesting feedback from the mods interviewed

Child porn, dying animals, dying children, brutal 3rd world scenes of horror, and quite a lot of literal poop. So if anyone was bothered by graphic images, they should stay well away...

And because your Reddit account can be permabanned at any time by Reddit's Anti-Evil Operations bot with a modest amount of reporting from a number of sockpuppet accounts, you're not able to tell these people to fuck off and go to hell when they inevitably ask why you're discriminating against them and their sickening photos.

You have to maintain a veneer of pleasantness for even the most vile photos and the most abusive Redditors because those are the people that can and will get you banned in retaliation.

Yes, good luck with that, Spez.

[–] eleitl@lemmy.ml 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is just the latest nail in the coffin of Reddit, in a long series. You don't see those who stopped moderating and engaging before ultimatively leaving the decaying platform over the years.

[–] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Indeed. All things come to an end, and it's often a slow painful end. I think reddit is reaching that point. Will it close down in a year or two? Maybe not. It will likely linger on for many more years. But it won't be the same, and the quality and traffic will go down until it's a shadow of it's former self.

The interesting thing with social media platforms is that the way they declined is still not predictable. Aside from the fact that they are (in there grand scheme of things) still pretty new, there are several variations of them. And their evolution can be improved by many factors.

I think we all know about the 'facebookification' of sites that your your user profile to your real life identity and then let you find real life contacts and post casual opinions. They draw in the younger generation, who are active and contribute a lot (not necessarily good content, but content nonetheless). Then older generations get pulled in via them, tensions and credibility concerns arise, content quality goes down, and the younger generation move on to the next platform. That just leaves a more passive user base that posted less engaging content and less often.

But more anonymous (liked reddit) platforms seem to fade a bit differently. Maybe in a more straightforward way. The same general principle applies, I guess: content withers away and then users drift away. So the platform just gets replaced when the next thing shows up. This happened with reddit replacing slashdot.

I get a strong feeling reddit is about to get replaced. Not sure by what yet (Fediverse or Threads or something else), but I can't see reddit reversing course not that they've pissed off a critical mass of them people who kept their platform running smoothly.

Maybe their leadership is in a mad scramble to get that IPO done ASAP because they all saw the writing on the wall, and have for a little while now. And they want to cash out while they can. They know social media platforms have an expiration date, and even before the API and mod fiasco, they knew they were approaching it.

[–] ouillie@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Not to mention that Spez has demonstrated a shocking absence of leadership. I hope they IPO soon so I can short.

[–] Clbull@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To be honest, I think that deposed Reddit mods should band together and start their own Lemmy instances.

The moment Sync and Boost come out and offer a decent experience, Reddit is finished.

[–] Nelots@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Reddit won't be finished for a long, long time. They could literally start charging $10 a month to use their site and at least half of their user base would probably stay. Ideally Lemmy will one day be a proper competitor, but even then Reddit will live on.

People are always talking about how "X is finished because it made a horrible business decision", yet they always live on. YouTube, Netflix, Discord, Twitter, Facebook, Reddit... they're all still doing just fine.

[–] xc2215x@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Reddit wants mods who will agree with Spez. This is what this is about.

[–] romaselli@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Not necessarily agree, just bow down.

[–] snowgrimm@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I'm personally happy to discover that awkwardtheturtle is suspended from r/rant.

I always keep feeling like that bitch is responsible for some of the shit there. Plus, they manage way too many subreddits. As do some other mods still clinging on there.

[–] Rooki@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Please keep it a bit more civil! Thanks!

[–] kingthrillgore@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

The fact that there never was a limit of sub counts is part of why the turnover we expected never came. At some point, you have to be a deeply unwell narcissist to willingly mod hundreds of subs. I'm reminded of Laurelai.

[–] xyzinferno@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

The fact that this is done under the name of an admin going by "ModCodeOfConduct" is added salt in the wound.

Implying that it's the code of conduct to blindly obey all bullshit from the admins, never protest any changes that they made, and the like... Fucking ridiculous

[–] Pandoras_Can_Opener@mander.xyz 5 points 1 year ago

Landed gentry, they look for new landed gentry. They should commit to spez's word. As they expect the mods to do.