Unfortunately…
Reddit demands moderators remove NSFW labels, or else / Anyone who opposes Reddit’s “final warning” will have their mod powers removed.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/6/23786474/reddit-nsfw-moderator-protest-final-warning
Let 'em.
interestingasfuck has been unmoderated and closed for weeks now. Other subs are going to get the same treatment, and going dark is worse than going NSFW. The most effective form of protest any sub can engage in at this point is forcing Reddit to fire and fail to replace them.
I guess people just don’t want to moderate anymore.
The ultimate “nobody wants to work”
Except it was for free and everyone took the piss out of you for doing it.
Y’know, if they had walked everything back - or even just reduced API costs - right away, no one would have left. Now their top content creators have left, and nothing they do will repair the damage.
This is what all mods should do. Their thanks for running a community unpaid for years on end is a middle finger for not letting reddit profit off of them. Users build, foster, and maintain subreddits and reddit swoops in and declares that it’s all thanks to them. Mods who get demodded should wear that fact with pride when contrasted against the ones who capitulated with similar threats.
I haven’t been demodded yet but I’m sure it’s coming. I linked directly to the new Lemmy community in a sticky post.
I wonder if Reddit realizes that subreddits are going NSFW because they don’t have the tools to combat NSFW content.
This isn’t a threat by moderators, this is self preservation. They literally have no where else to go.
They take away the NSFW tags, then they will be blamed for any NSFW content that gets public attention.
So it’s a lose/lose situation.
