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[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 year ago (2 children)

As much as Steve has already shown he's willing to lie outright (especially we characterizing his talks with the Apollo Dev) I really can't put it past Reddit to lie about the mods "encouraging" porn posts.

[–] [email protected] 78 points 1 year ago (1 children)

r/mildlyinteresting did not encourage it, and Reddit lied about that, and their removal and suspension was revoked by a different admin than the one who removed and suspended them. Here is the post, "The Reddit Admins are lying - r/MildlyInteresting did NOT allow or encourage users to post ANY sexually explicit content, see draft of now-deleted announcement":

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Given how that's been going, and how that subreddit apparently got caught in the crossfire, it kind of makes you wonder what's going on behind the scenes at Reddit. With a different person revoking it ~~and apologising~~, it kind of seems like the admins aren't really communicating to each other, and that some are putting out fires that the others are lighting.

EDIT: No Apology, just an explanation.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I can't imagine that everyone in the company is like spez.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yet disorder and ambiguous goals/requirements by management tends to have a domino effect.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I wonder how many people were hanging around hoping to cash out after the IPO and are realizing it's not going to go as well as they thought because they're being led by spiteful idiots.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I didn't see anything about an apology, where can i see this?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

In the comments on one of the articles on The Verge about this, someone claiming to be a mod over there said they were reinstated. I know you can't really prove that, but maybe that's where this notion comes from?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

they have been reinstated, thats confirmed and you ca go look and confirm for yourself, im talking about i never saw an apology from any admin or reddit

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

My mistake, it wasn't an apology, just an explanation stating that the subreddit was caught up in some crossfire.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I think there was a comment later, in another thread, where all the reinstated mods later had their permissions changed so that literally the only thing they could do was modmail, nothing else. Don't completely remember if it was the same group of mods, but I think it was.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It was. Seems the admins are infighting now. They were all banned and removed, then reinstated, then had all their mod permissions removed a few hours later

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Just once again shows that, as always, users are the one that makes Reddit Reddit.

Polarized actions like this is just Reddit showing off their inability and ignorance to the community.

All I can hope for right now is that every shitty things that happened so far is all because of spez and spez only. He’s the one and only almighty CEO and nobody can disagree him (basically Zuck 2.0?)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Par for the course at Reddit. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Consistency has never been their strong suit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That's nonsense, the 'C' in "Reddit" has always stood for "Consistency."

[–] jballs 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah the r/interestingasfuck mods didn't encourage porn either. They just said they were going to stop enforcing all rules but site wide rules and the users posted and upvoted porn. What the admins really want to say is that they need mods of successful subreddits to fall in line and keep running the site how the admins want it to be run.