These people running Reddit are idiots.
this post was submitted on 21 Jun 2023
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I don't think it's possible that they could have handled this worse
If there's one thing I've come to realize during this whole debacle, it's that they absolutely can, and probably will tomorrow.
That's fucked up. What there reasoning behind that?
I think it went like this:
Mods make thier subs private in protest
Mods get threatened to lose mod powers if they dont reopen thier subs
Mods reopen thier subs but only as nsfw subs
Admins decide to intervene by disabling nsfw
Admins accidentally (or on purpose idk) disable nsfw on porn subs
I don't think it's porn subs.
Some subs went to allow NSFW (and porn) as protest, as you said, and reddit admins disabled the NSFW tag on those subs which decided to allow porn and become NSFW.
And so disabled the NSFW warning on porn posts.
"Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by imcompetence."
¿Por que no los dos?
I swear I've heard the term malicious incompetence before.
To add to that, if a sub is tagged as nsfw, there are no ads (to not scare of advertisers). Some sub mods indirectly invited users to post porn, so they became nsfw subs by protest.
It was great thinking IMO. They just care about the advertisements and investors. They don’t care about who will watch what content.
Mods also made a poll to ask if the community is okay making it NSFW
This is great watching the drama from my new "home" here on kbin. I'm so happy that you all are here too, giving me tons to read.
Is it though? It kind of feels like you broke up with someone but are still getting constant updates about who they're currently fucking the minute you left.
I guess that's some people's kink.
lol it's more about seeing how your ex is crazy and digging themselves a hole after you left them.
Yeah this is all real "dodged a bullet" energy and I love it.
I think it's more like reading about how your ex, who was showing erratic behavior that caused you to break up with them, has been burning down their own mansion and waving a gun at the firefighters so they stay the hell out because the ex is trying to protect the mansion's property value!
It's more like watching them post about how bad a date went or hearing about how they got kicked out of Wendy's.
I haven't subbed to any reddit related magazines/communities here but they pop up on all. I do think it's probably healthier for people and this platform to move on. I do get why people still want to hear about shenanigans.
It's an ongoing shit show, and given the migration, it does affect us. So it is worthwhile to keep an eye on it.
Plus, many of us Reddit refugees cared about the communities we participated in. Even if we don't care for Reddit as a company anymore, we do care about the communities we left behind.
It will naturally taper off after the end of the month exodus happens and people settle down into their new communities. Lemmy doesn't have the underlying culture associated with it that reddit has developed over the last decade or so. That is something that will develop over time. until then we're all ex redditors more than we are lemmites (lemmings? lemmiers?).
While lemmings cosplay could be fun I don't really like the name that much.
https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lemmings_Cosplay.jpg
Same, props to the heros posting these!
They have to pray Apple doesn’t hear that. Else they’d get a warning or get straight up booted from the AppStore.
That would be hilarious, the site would really be fucked if they did that.
Without defending the reddit admins as they seem to go bonkers atm but I am genuinely interested if there is any possibility to verify for us any claims made?
There are screenshots of the mod log showing the "Moderator Code of Conduct" admin account going in and reverting the NSFW settings on multiple subs. Yeah screenshots aren't always trustworthy but that's really the best you're going to get with this. It's not out of character for Spez though, so I'm not giving Reddit the benefit of the doubt.
As one of the mods of r/TIHI I can assure you the screenshots were real.
Thanks. I hate that they're real.
Thanks, and thanks for fighting the good fight over there. Moderation is a tough and mostly thankless task and I can't even imagine it on a community the size of r/TIHI.
Any chance you're modding a similar community here on kbin or Lemmy?
They have long since abandoned logic. Just let it burn, I say.
I knew this would happen as soon as some sub went NSFW to protest and i still hate that it happened like WTF do they even check what they're doing or do they just don't care anymore cause even greedy bastards should know how stupid this is.
The answer won't susprise you...
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