this post was submitted on 27 Jun 2023
172 points (100.0% liked)

Technology

58011 readers
2930 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.


Our Rules


  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots


founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 

Some of Reddit’s most popular communities have posted open letters to the company with a series of requests regarding many key issues at the heart of the recent protests on the platform. They want a response by June 29th.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Just stop moderating them already. Don't go dark. Reddit will revert. Don't make it NSFW to stop ad profits. Reddit will revert. Just. Stop. Moderating.

Let it fill up with nudes and hate speech and then sure, let's have Reddit forcibly remove you. They'll pull in a new team of mods but if they're just picked out of the blue, they're unlikely to find the time and energy necessary to do it well because this takes passion and many teams were assembled carefully over time with votes and selection processes for a reason. It's often a team effort of passionate people. Moderating poorly risks putting the subreddit on collision course with the community but hey that is Spez and gang's problem, not yours.

I don't think there is any other language that Reddit understands than this. Mods -- take a breather and see what the world has to offer. It's not just all about Reddit.

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

Exactly. Stop moderating and remove any auto moderating bots. That's it. Let Reddit self destruct.

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

But they can't do it because Reddit moderators almost always have nothing else going for them. They cling to their moderator status so feverishly, if they gave it up they'd have nothing else going for them.

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

Reddit will then replace them, as they've threatened and reiterated through all of this