Mildly Infuriating

"we respect the protests, but we will remove everyone that will protest"

the part "decide that don't want to be a mod anymore" is so infuriating and unrespectful. Like they don't know what's goin on...

Fuck em. This is my first post on Lemmy and I'm happy it exists.

Subreddits belong to the community of users...

Spez, read that again. Slower this time.

Dear person volunteering your time and effort for what you thought was a worthy endeavor. We're trying to commodify your work so we can make a killing so don't fuck it up for us.

"Hey mod! Go back working for free so we can make money or we'll take action you peasant. You own nothing. Kneel and obey."

Steve Hoffman probably

“Reopen this, or else!”

But they’re carefully avoiding to say or else what. My guess is every next step option would cost them resources at the scale of subreddits they’re reaching out to, so they’re hoping that the empty threat alone will cause some to relent without costing them anything. Right?

Alright. They can hire some employees to moderate all of Reddit then.

What short sighted assholes

Roses are red, violets are blue. Open your sub, or we'll boot you too.

Open it back up and just stop moderating it? Make them mildly infuriated that you're acting your wage.

Reddit: "Subreddits are for the community of reddit users who rely on them."

Community of reddit users: "We think the sub should stay private, and if you force it open, we'll spam sexy John Oliver and porn."

Reddit: "wait no not like that"

This message is mind-blowingly tone deaf.

A few days ago I didn't have a single reason to leave reddit. Yet, with so many reasons now, here I am, and I look forward to lemmy and kbin.

Moderating is volunteer work. *Spez exhibits unlikeable characteristics. Why volunteer for someone who exhibits unlikeable characteristics?

*Edited from "Spez is a narcissist. Why volunteer for a narcissist?"

Subreddits belong to the community of users…

So you're providing tools to allow democratic control of subreddits, right?

Right?

Subreddita belong to the community is not what reddit says when mods abuse their power

Yeah this type of stuff brought me Lemmy.

lol, "subreddits belong to the community of users..." clearly doesn't belong to the users. That's the whole problem

I love the condescension here - your protest is "taking a break from moderating"

LMAO I got this too. Probably just gonna open 'er back up with minimal mod-activity. Let the bots and NSFW problems flow rampant.

Im a reddit mod with a sub over 20 million - today they removed our top mod, and then sent us a message saying that 'we requested a re-ordering'. It's total bullshit.

Fuck em. God its nice to be able to say "fuck em" without having to worry about elon or spez getting butthurt and banning my account.

"Subreddits belong to the community of users". Followed by "a path forward to make sure your subreddit is available... which is it?? lol

In short, you will be replaced.

a duty to keep these spaces active Redditors rely on these spaces for information, support, entertainment, and connection.

I thought it was private property lmao. Conversation spaces shouldn't act as public plazas when they're private.

Honestly, mods should just force the issue and make Reddit replace them. It's going to be a big problem if Reddit needs to find new moderators for hundreds if not thousands of subreddits. And that's assuming all the new moderators will play along and not immediately join the protest, go on a tyrannical power trip, or just go dark after a few weeks.

Why would anyone even want to be a mod right now? It's like your boss threatening to fire you from a job you're not paid for while the building is actively on fire.

It's ridiculous that they are referring to the protest as a "break". Are they that dilusional?

"subreddits belong to the community of users who come to the for support" good way to justify kicking a mod with a passion for such a community and forcing people to post only the things you want.

Because if you force people to have fun they'll be happy, of course.

Mhm I just got info that a certain Poo the bear wants to talk to you about strongarming communities. But don't worry, his methods definitely work.

Guessing they’ll just restore a backup from before the shutdown and install new Reddit backed mods. I can’t see this really going any other way. Maybe the subscribed users will drop out of the restored subreddit, but I’m guessing most people just won’t care.

Fuck Spez, Lemmy is doing alright. (I like community ran solutions better anyway)

I’m so glad that we have an alternative to Reddit!

I just deleted three of my reddit accounts. I am done. As an artist, I have more work to do on my primary current account. I feel I should delete my art from reddit so that they can not make money from my art and music.

Fuck u/ModCodeOfConduct

They are slowly taking away the platforms of free speech. First they came for the self hosted websites; then they changed the search engine functions; then they came for twitter; now they are at Reddit. Make no mistake this is not just about an IPO. This is about controlling how the public communicates. Discourse is discouraged.

It’s hilarious to me that they are telling subs that they can’t just switch the NSFW button on like that, after they recently made the vape communities go NSFW against their will.

OMG, can you play a reverse uno card on this? So much of this argument is the problem with the changes they are making. So frustrating.

r/modcodeofconduct is spez. I guarantee it

It's interesting how during numerous examples of users trying to fight mod teams over changing direction of the sub, new rules, unwanted new mods etc., and getting admins involved, the answer was ALWAYS the same "Subs are owned by their creators/mods. If you don't like it you can always create a new one".

Suddenly they belong to communieties? Communities that in numerous examples voted by themselves to stay closed? How absolutely full of shit they are...