@dingus this is my favorite protest so far and I love how creative subreddit mods are getting - one last salting of the earth before they quit the site for good!
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it really is very refreshing. I am oddly comforted by seeing there's still a fighting spirit among many internet users
This is a great protest technique that I think everyone can get behind because it's fun. It might actually increase engagement in the short term as everyone wants to mess around with it, but in the long term if this stays active it hurts the subs actual usability.
@Skray @dingus @tensquiggles It's both really funny and entirely ruining the user experience - makes Reddit think the protest failed short term While making it more powerful in the long run
I especially love that this is going to give all other subreddits that are still in protest the idea of doing the same thing, or build on the idea. genius.
Spez later revealed an exciting new idea for a system where users will be able to vote moderators out of their positions and install new ones. This type of pure democracy on a site like reddit is bound to be wildly successful and incorruptible. But, there's only one problem: At the pace it takes reddit to develop new mod tools and systems, it'll be years before such a system is ready. That clearly will not do in a society built on instant gratification.
That is why the r/PoliticalHumor mod team would like to announce that starting today we are bringing pure democracy to the subreddit: All users are now mods, and as such, are part of the "Landed Gentry". Welcome to the club.
That's brilliant!! 1 million and 500 thousands users, hilarious.
That is incredible. It's hilarious, it's satirical, it's a sharp criticism and it absolutely hammers the stupidity of every Reddit statement home.
What a great team.
Looks like the landed gentry gave the proletariate the memes of production.
I'll see myself out...
Please, stay, my liege :-D
I think spez forgot that Redditors will burn it down just for the show.
We've all been saying for years that we all hate Reddit desire using it daily. To u/spez's surprise, we weren't lying, we just didn't have a good excuse to destroy it at the time.
ON THIS DAY, WE ARE ALL 4CHAN!
I'll bring the marshmallows!
Nice idea, but I don't think you want all these toxic fumes in your tasty marshmallows..
Oh my god. How can they even do that. I stand in awe, this is flawless. Please god, let the news get hold of this one.
It looks like they've done it through automod actions, so if you type a comment like "!lock" automod will lock the thread for you. Other things like downvoting a comment to below -8 results in the user in question receiving a temporary ban. Apparently they are hard at work on new commands to let all users run roughshod over the sub.
Your wish is our command: Here are your new moderator permissions.
- To lock the comments on any post, simply comment !lock as a top-level comment on any post.
- To unlock the comments on any post, vote the AutoModerator stickied comment on each post high enough, and comments will be unlocked.
- To lock any comment on any post, reply to it with "!lock".
- To temporarily ban any user, simply get their comment or post to a -8 score.
- To remove any submission, reply to a submission with a top level comment of !remove. Must have sufficient subreddit-level karma.
Outstanding move. If more subreddits did this it would very quickly overload Reddits servers with API requests.
I am itching so much for the perfect episode of John Oliver's Last Week Tonight commemorating the most absurd but effective protest in histor, sounding off the whole mess of a situation and poking some more at spez. It'll be a feast.
God the timing is awful with this and the writer strike going on. I really hope they come to an agreement, first and foremost so the writers get paid properly and the other things they've asked for but I can't lie and say I don't want a new episode of Last Week Tonight covering all the reddit drama. I just really hope the strike doesn't last so long that it's not news enough to put on the show.
Man, these are the funniest days of my life. Everyday is a complete shit show in the dump fire.
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Not exactly what happened they made a bot that will take a limited set of commands but you not actually a mod. It's more of a joke (obviously). All you can really do is lock and unlock and remove comments for people under a certain score
Me reading this:
It doesn't matter IMO, it's very smart and hilarious nonetheless, their post about it is a masterpiece.
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This is honestly my favorite. All the concern trolls saying there are millions of people who would love to be mods now have the opportunity.
By the way, we now have Political Humor here on kbin:
https://kbin.social/m/PoliticalHumor
If you find it of interest, consider subscribing.
You sonovabitch, I'm in.
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Giga democracy
Anarchism. If everyone's a mod, then no one is.
The inmates are running the asylum.
In 2006 I was named Time's Person of the Year. Today I selected to moderate my first subreddit.
"ohshitnowwhat" - admins, probably
I suppose we should brace ourselves for the introduction of SuperMods or w'ev.
This is the most hilarious one!
This is amazing
Never fight with community ... internet has no border and your website is one of infinity
Also Reddit IPO will be nuked pretty hard
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I will be fascinated to see how the admins attempt to deal with this
That is pretty genius.
I already want all of the other subs to do the same. CHAOS!
I just love how all the communities get to stick it to spez
Sweet!
It just gets better and better. Mods are getting creative now, this is great.
Hahaha, every post is either full of deleted comments or just locked, this is by far the most original one so far.
Haha genius!!!
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