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I thought they would just take over or replace the mod list. Guess I was wrong
Fucking dumb to force them to reopen and then when mods say fuckit ban the sub. This is some bad parenting.
But I thought millions of people depended on the communities involved and that’s why they had to reopen.
Doesn’t banning the community just fully go against their stated reasoning?
Like most things that frustrate me, it seems logic has flown out the window in this situation. At least from Reddit's perspective. I cannot fathom how they could mess this up so badly. Could you imagine if they would have given 12 months notice and piped API access behind Reddit Premium of some sort? They would have raked in the money.
Spez is an authoritarian dictator without a country to rule, so he rules over reddit, because he's a small person and inflicting his rule on others is the only thing that brings him anything that feels like joy
We are under no obligation to pretend that's not a tissue-paper thin disguise for getting the moderators to act how Reddit wants here.
If there's one thing reddit never had, its consistency.
And who are they going to have take over mod responsibilities (for free) in all of these communities at once? This is why mods need to call their bluff and force them to try to replace them.
Saw someone complaining about the protest in a thread where the top mod was offering up the sub to whoever wanted it. I suggested they (person complaining) go ahead and step up and ask to be a mod. They replied something like, “I don’t wanna be an E-jannie…[blah blah].”
These people assume that there’s plenty of other people who will step-up and take over. We’ll see I guess.
Whenever people say "Somebody should do something!" they very rarely ever add "and the somebody is me"
Meanwhile, as soon as I have the finances, I'm throwing some money at the instance admins for my instance. I already know I don't have the mental capacity (from a commitment standpoint) to properly moderate a community, and if I run a server it will be for me and people I know in real life. I'm very aware that as of right now, the only thing I'm contributing is my participation, and that actually isn't as helpful as chipping in some money
What I expected:
Randos asking for it on /r/redditrequest
And if that didn't work out poorly paid workers in some cheap country somewhere, like facebook does.
Yeah this is the dumbest move possible. I can only assume they're trying to scare other mods into alignment because they can't replace the moderators effectively. Well, I'll cheers to their stupidity!
Who they gonna replace them with? Paid employees? That'd go against their whole business model! XD