Think this case in particular is pretty interesting. Former default subreddit and one of the largest on the site (Top 20 at least).
I think /r/videos is where we’ll see how things actually play out with the reddit admins. I’m guessing at some point the admins will step in and replace the mods.
I’m guessing at some point the admins will step in and replace the mods.
100%.
I’d be surprised if /r/videos stays dark past the cutoff date of the original blackout.
The pretense of Reddit being open, fair, and ran by the users is long dead. Reddit is now closer to something like Facebook than it is to the site I joined in 2010. The only different is that Facebook pays their moderation staff.
I’m enjoying the drama just a bit too much I think. There’s something quite satisfying when the ‘product’ bites back.
The apathy spez has for the users is on show every time he does anything.
Sure it’s entertaining to watch, and thanks to all the commotion I decided to give Lemmy a try, and glad I did! Now I’ve even got my own instance running. Sort of feels like setting up an old school BBS, back when MajorBBS was a thing.
The reality of the situation is that a large proton of Reddit users still aren’t even aware of what is going on. My wife mostly lurks, and had no idea of the current situation. We both primarily use the native mobile app, although I also have a paid version of Apollo.
It’s one hell of a brave move. i think reddit will just re-open the subreddit and put new mods in though. sadly
They 100% will. The sad truth is that, despite all the protest threads, there’s still a lot of users who have no clue what’s going on. In nearly every thread, I’ll see comments from people saying that this is the first they’re hearing of it.
The fact is that Reddit knows that a LOT of people have no clue about any of this, that they don’t care, and that they will continue using the site on the official app and won’t notice anything has changed even though the mods of all their favorite subs are being replaced with scabs.
I posted a slightly longer comment about this downthread but unlike other websites like twitter, reddit relies on users to be moderators. This is the one site that can’t afford to lose their power users, you can replace them with scabs but the scabs probably don’t know how to moderate a community that large and if enough big community mods quit reddit will never catch up. This is one of the only sites right now where the power users being happy actually does matter more than the average user, because they’re essentially staffing the site for free.
Good. This is just what Reddit deserves right now.
/r/music announced the same thing a few days ago. Hopefully other major subreddits join in as well. But as already mentioned, admins will probably just reopen them and throw in new mods.
