this post was submitted on 17 Jun 2023
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Malicious Compliance
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There will be scabs eager to volunteer their time as moderators - at least for now - solely for the perceived power.
At least until the spambot onslaught begins and they start to find it incredibly difficult if not impossible to keep up with the endless flow of spam due to their lack of assistance tools and beneficial third party apps.
This is how I am protesting. For all my subs, we have switched off all our moderation tools.
Absolutely.
Worse than scabs. Brown nosers.
https://www.wiktionary.org/wiki/brown_noser
The rationale is: profit. Ultimately reddit relies on users for content, and they're hoping if the remove the organisers of the strike (the mods) and replace them with scabs, that the users will stop striking.
It seems more like they just want to give mods the illusion that they can make executive decisions about the subs they run so that they'll work for free to Reddit's benefit.
A few days ago, Reddit said that they "supported communities' decision to go private" (or something like that). Now that communities actually did it, they're backtracking.
Subreddits being controlled by the mods and community is just reddit's public face. Behind closed doors, the reddit admins see themselves as the masters.
Subreddits being controlled by the mod and community is just reddit's public face. Behind closed doors, the reddit admins see themselves as the masters.