What tf is going on over there I’ve not been to Reddit since the 11th
The people that cared distanced themselves already so a new majority of indifference starts to emerge. Those that are still active on Reddit are now more likely to just want things back to normal.
Reddit is now filled with a bunch of people saying “we don’t even NEED mods! they just make everything worse!”, because this is apparently their first time on the Internet.
I had a Hacker News discussion where in separate comments, a guy said:
- all the moderators should go away because they’re not needed, and he doesn’t agree with their decisions
- but there should still be moderation
- but he’s not going to do it because he’s not here to do unpaid labor
- but of course he wouldn’t pay for there to be moderators
Internet discourse in a nutshell
Yeah. My tendencies are pretty tame anymore, and my inner troll just started salivating.
Either only the scabs are left, or there’s a concerted smear campaign against the mods who helped with the blackout. I lean towards the latter, but it’s probably both.
There’s a lot of upset users who had no idea that a protest had been planned for weeks ahead of time or that the protests made the news.
They just showed up looking for their content, and having it cut off is like when your heroin supplier leaves town.
I talked to some kid who was furious he couldn’t see r/starwars.
And he blamed it all on the mods.
When I explained the whole history of what was happening, he said he supported the protest but wanted to subs to go public again.
:/