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Reddit Threatens to Remove Moderators From Subreddits Continuing Apollo-Related Blackouts (www.macrumors.com)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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As some subreddits continue blackouts to protest Reddit's plans to charge high prices for its API, Reddit has informed the moderators of those subreddits that it has plans to replace resistant moderation teams to keep spaces "open and accessible to users."

Edit, there seems to be conflicting reporting on this issue:

While the company does “respect the community’s right to protest” and pledges that it won’t force communities to reopen, Reddit also suggests there’s no need for that.

Source: https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/15/23762501/reddit-ceo-steve-huffman-interview-protests-blackout

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I'm treating the blackout like a strike, and I don't cross picket lines, and neither should anyone else. No scabs. No one should be agreeing to moderate a sub that has lost all of its moderators to forcible removal.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I agree, but at the same time, the people who are willing to cross the picket lines are facists. They are desperate to take over any spaces they're able to and turn those places into hellholes. A bunch of subs are about to be destroyed by right wing nutjobs forcing their way into the top slots. A former T_D mod has already set his sights on aww, which would be the death of a wholesome sub like that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Well the more fucked it gets, the quicker it burns. After what they’ve done I’ll be glad to see it go. Spez poured the accelerant, he struck the matches and tossed them around. All the while being pled with and warned at the same time, that what he was doing was wrong. Burn, baby, burn.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Except there are inevitably power mods who would happily nump at the opportunity to claim a few more subs for their fiefdoms

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Let em have it. Then they can be kings of shit.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

And you could have it all / My empire of dirt

There is no shortage of power-hungry mods willing to work for free.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Everyone should be applying to be a mod, then keeping the subreddits closed :D spez said that they will not force communities to reopen, only that they will be replacing mods