They also suspended all our accounts for 7 days.
As the original creator and designer of the logo and banner, I also filed a DMCA against the further use of the r/TIHI logo on reddit.
“As the original creator and designer of the logo and banner, I also filed a DMCA against the further use of the r/TIHI logo on reddit.”
Thanks, I Love It.
Unfortunately that has no chance of succeeding. When you sign up to reddit, you give them a license to use the content you submit. It’s in the user agreement, section 5 “Your Content”: https://www.redditinc.com/policies/user-agreement
Under GDPR you have the right to your content, including data download and revocation. If you are banned from or restricted access to a website it doesn’t strip you of that right. However the complain should have probably been through GDPR and not DMCA.
This doesn’t hold any grounds in the EU as copyrights can’t be waived, and unless you got paid for it, you can withdraw consent at any time.
Under GDPR you have the right to your content, including data download and revocation. If you are banned from or restricted access to a website it doesn’t strip you of that right. However the complain should have probably been through GDPR and not DMCA.
The DMCA is used “successfully” with even less grounds on YouTube every day. But I suppose the difference lies in not being a mega corporation.
Yes, we are already talking about that in the mod team. Happy to find a new home in kbin, we were all pretty much done by this point
Just say that you’ll kill and eat Matt Walsh if you were locked on a room with him, worked for me
I want to try something… Less involved in getting me on more lists.
Honestly, people posting unrelated trash to subreddits with new moderators would be good. A dozen new moderators against thousands of non-bots just posting shit to reddit would be fun to try to moderate.
Not even rule breaking stuff so you can contribute more than once. Like submitting wikihow articles for laying down floor tiles in TIHI. and upvoting other posts that don’t belong.
Reporting misinformation in r/conservative (in good faith) worked for me.
It’s easy for them to attack the remaining subreddits when half of reddit, bent the knee at the slightest threat of having mod powers removed. Imagine how hard it would have been to do this if a majority of subreddits had stuck together.
Yes there’s an element of people not wanting to lose their power. But for every dickhead powermod there are dozens of small subreddits with a handful of people working hard to establish and maintain a community, largely altruistically and thanklessly.
Modding, when it’s done well by dedicated people with a passion for their subject, can be incredibly powerful. There are some communities (eg legaladvice, askhistorians) that are unique and just couldn’t exist without those people dedicating untold hours to tending to them to prevent them from descending into chaos. Not to mention the custom tools almost all of them rely on. You can’t just yank those people out and replace them without losing a lot of what makes those communities unique.
Have a read of Legaladviceuk announcement.
Yeah the issue with my sub is we’ve worked really hard to create the community we have. A lot of our users won’t leave. I’ve decided to use an automod sticky comment on every post letting everyone know where the rest of our official pages are. I have seen very little migration unfortunately.
We decided as a mod team to keep our sub open. We’re all migrating off Reddit but we’re keeping our accounts for our one singular sub.
Most people don’t pay attention to things around them and don’t tend to care unless it directly impacts them.
As long as you and other mods are carrying on in your roles, these people have no motivation to move.
If the subbreddits stop being moderated it will generally degrade the experience, people will become impacted and then be forced to take notice.
This is the gamble, someone might step up, they might decide leaving reddit is too high a price or you might cause people to migrate.
More than half the subs are modded by the same handful of power mods. No way they would give that up, they’re probably government run accounts anyway.
That was some weak ass protest anyway. Let’s protest for just 2 days! No wonder Steve Huffman just gloated about it all over and even called the mods “landed gentry”
It wasn’t just 2 days though? 2 days blackout was the first part. I mean, we’re literally in a thread about a sub being punished for continuing their protest and they’re not the only sub.
IMO it was always the right move to start with a limited protest. Giving users a chance to vote on next steps easily lets them counter reddit’s claims that people wanted the protest to end.
I like how you’re in trouble for allowing NSFW posts in a sfw community, oh but also you’re not allowed to mark things NSFW.
Reddit: “we will make up whatever rules we want, whenever we want, so that we can keep funding the payments on our BMWs”
Normally, companies try and implement changes in their product in a diplomatic way, but I guess Reddit never got that memo.
Since when they have a rule to prevent SFW subs from turning into NSFW subs? Did they add the clause just recently?
Jannies have never been good at relating to people, and reddit admins are like the jannies’ janny. Ban-happiness is inevitable.
Forums are an interesting model for real life human social structures. If you operate your social structural group in such a way that the only way of meting out punishment is exclusion, eventually you can create an outgroup that becomes a threatening competitor.
When your containment board is another website, you lose.
You are free to do whatever you want with your subreddit as long as do do exactly the things we tell you to do