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Re:Reddit Strike Has Started by liberty-DNBWM on Sunday June 11, 2023 @10:15PM (#36287707)
This is ridiculous. I couldn't speak for all subreddits. But for some of the subreddits I loved, it just shows how ignorant, arrogant and dictatorial they are. Those moderators didn't contribute to the value of the subreddits. They don't provide any valuable content at all. How can they move subreddits to private without approval from creators? This is fucking ridiculous.
Re:Reddit Strike Has Started by john-radio on Sunday June 11, 2023 @10:18PM (#36287722)
That's exactly the question that all of the rest of us have about the reddit admins demanding millions of dollars from the app developers with a month's worth of notice. Why on earth are you criticizing the moderators? Have you never heard of the concept of a strike?
Re:Reddit Strike Has Started by jimbob45 on Monday June 12, 2023 @02:23AM (#36289138)
A strike hurts the company's owners primarily - much less so the company's consumers. This primarily hurts the company's users and does virtually nothing to the owners. Even worse, it highlights the dictatorial power reddit mods wield to be able to unilaterally decide to shut down their boards.

Don't hurt the people you want on your side.

Re:Reddit Strike Has Started by unclekev on Monday June 12, 2023 @10:23AM (#36293931)
> Why on earth are you criticizing the moderators?

Because 99 days out of 100 the majority of people including Redditors hate Reddit mods for being power tripping egomaniacs who actively censor any discussion that they don't agree with. It's a literal meme at this point how bad Reddit mods are - but today they are the 'heroes' because it suits the narrative.

It's amazing how many people have bought into the mods agenda regarding this whole 'strike'