Reddit Migration

If I had to guess, there are too many users who would become appointed as moderators, then just shut down the subreddit again. The admins need time to filter through the applications to find the genuine bootlickers.

Admin realized that despite all the applications, there were:

• People requesting the subreddit so they could continue the protests.
• People requesting the subreddit so they could give it back to the original mods.
• People requesting the subreddit so they could own it.
• People requesting the subreddit because they have strong feelings about "moderation" and want to /worldpolitics it.
• Absolutely no one who wanted to just do what the old mods did.

From what I could see, there no actual good-faith requests from people who genuinely cared about /TIHI and wanted to moderate it well and diligently. And like, who's surprised? It's a huge subreddit without a concrete community core, it's more of a content category. I don't think anyone except the mods cared about the community itself, because there barely was one.

That's the same issue they're running into with the other large subs. They're too huge and too general and everyone is just another face in the crowd, so there are very few people who care about that specific space in the way that makes for good volunteer moderators - in most cases, when those people existed for those communities, they were already recruited into the old mod team.

And all the people who want to mod are either activists for the protest, the sort of power-hungry weirdos that end up as powermods, but who showed up to Reddit too late, or somebody with an axe to grind about moderation in general seeing an opportunity in the massive unmoderated subreddit.

From the one time I tried requesting a sub there, they don't just let someone have a sub if they ask and it'd be banned otherwise, they probably won't give it to you if you don't have mod experience for example (the reason I didn't get the niche sub I was trying to revive, which is reasonable enough), or if they feel that what experience you do have isn't enough that you'd likely be able to handle the particular sub. TIHI is a big sub, so they'd not just be looking for any random volunteer, it'd have to be someone experienced with moderating sizable subs, probably. And those people are, well, exactly the kind of people angry with reddit right now.

If they had come out of the gate with that being the change, I would probably have paid for Reddit premium. Now though, not a chance.

That's what I was expecting would end up happening.

I was internally debating whether I'd pay for a premium Reddit account in order to continue using a third-party app. On the one hand, I could keep using the app that way. On the other hand, I'd be giving money to a company that not only openly tolerates but profits from hate and bigotry. Tough decision.

But then spez went and resolved that dilemma for me. Helpful fellow.

It does not make sense to me why the API charge have to be calculated by total traffic of all users of an app either. I've decided to think it is just an excuse to get rid of third party apps until convinced otherwise.

To my understanding it's a somewhat reasonable approach that has its upsides and downsides. I believe Twitter apps were all designed that way back in the day as well.

Whenever people say "Somebody should do something!" they very rarely ever add "and the somebody is me"