Reddit CEO tells employees that subreddit blackout ‘will pass’

Re:Reddit CEO tells employees that subreddit blackout ‘will ... by joecot on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @02:35PM (#36314739)

The problem is that reddit's entire system depends on unpaid labor from volunteer moderators. And they just pissed a lot of those moderators off.

Yeah, reddit can reopen those subreddits if they want to and kick the mods. But who are they going to get to moderate it? They can't afford to hire staff to moderate themselves, reddit is already unprofitable. Are they going to do an application process for scab mods? That will be an extremely unpopular fiasco.

The end result is either reddit capitulating, or becoming an absolute shell of its former self. Most likely they will compromise, charging third party apps for API access but an amount that is feasible. That is capitulation, because the entire point was to kill the third party apps entirely.

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Re:Reddit CEO tells employees that subreddit blackout ‘will ... by stcroixx on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @02:43PM (#36314879)

Moderation is the worst part of Reddit. If this succeeds in running off these folks, I’d consider that the best outcome.

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Re:Reddit CEO tells employees that subreddit blackout ‘will ... by danaris on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @02:49PM (#36314973)

Moderation is also the best part of Reddit. You just don't notice the moderation that's good—almost by definition.

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Re:Reddit CEO tells employees that subreddit blackout ‘will ... by dendrite9 on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @03:07PM (#36315281)

I used to hang out on a forum where people regularly said they liked it because there was no moderation. Conveniently forgetting that if you woke up at 3am the boards had posts from Thailand, or India, or Russia and in the morning they were cleaned up.

That board never had no moderation, it just managed it in a way where most people either didn't realize, or appreciated it. Then if someone crossed one of the few lines they would start screeching about how for X years there's been no moderation and the boar has gone to shit.

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Re:Reddit CEO tells employees that subreddit blackout ‘will ... by Asdrubalini on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @02:56PM (#36315072)

I personally woudn't mind not having moderators, as the ones we have at the moment are really bad and have pushed their political views in apparently impartial subs (like /r/politics).

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Re:Reddit CEO tells employees that subreddit blackout ‘will ... by ebiester on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @03:28PM (#36315623)

I mean, why not create your own subreddit then? All you have to do is create it with a small group of people to see it, post good articles, and keep a 24/7 watch to kill the comment and post spam going to viagra and obvious trash.

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Re:Reddit CEO tells employees that subreddit blackout ‘will ... by Asdrubalini on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @03:36PM (#36315737)

I'm not interested in unpaid labour, I barely have time to do the paid one.

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Re:Reddit CEO tells employees that subreddit blackout ‘will ... by joecot on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @04:01PM (#36316106)

So to be clear: you're fine with all the moderators leaving, but you don't want to moderate, but you also don't want there to be no moderation. You would like an arbitrarily "good" moderation you agree with completely, from someone else. Fantastic. Online community in a nutshell.

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Re:Reddit CEO tells employees that subreddit blackout ‘will ... by Asdrubalini on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @04:13PM (#36316303)

I just want reddit to moderate the moderators (there are very few that push an agenda), to me it doesn't seem an archaic idea.

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Re:Reddit CEO tells employees that subreddit blackout ‘will ... by gizmo385 on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @04:08PM (#36316229)

It feels like there is a bit of contradiction inherent in your position here, no?

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Re:Reddit CEO tells employees that subreddit blackout ‘will ... by Asdrubalini on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @04:10PM (#36316252)

Why would it be?

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Re:Reddit CEO tells employees that subreddit blackout ‘will ... by johngladtj on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @06:08AM (#36323700)

Because any good ones get banned by reddit?

Is this an actual question?

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Re:Reddit CEO tells employees that subreddit blackout ‘will ... by xx_ns on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @07:52AM (#36324463)

Any examples?

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Re:Reddit CEO tells employees that subreddit blackout ‘will ... by the_snooze on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @03:05PM (#36315239)

I frequented /r/cfb and /r/collegebasketball, which are terrific and very on-topic. Very little drama there. I can easily imagine those going to the dumpster without their mod teams.

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Re:Reddit CEO tells employees that subreddit blackout ‘will ... by joecot on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @03:09PM (#36315315)

I think the general reddit community underestimates how important moderation is. Yes, you have some moderators who go overboard, push a personal agenda on something that's supposed to be a neutral subreddit, etc. But subreddits without active moderation very quickly (in order of increasing tragedy) lose their focus, get overtaken by spam, or become hangouts for Nazis. reddit closes unmoderated subs for a reason.

Also a large chunk of the people who complain about moderators are actually upset that moderators stop their subreddits from being overtaken by Nazis. If you want completely unmoderated anonymous public discourse, go to 4Chan and see how it goes there. Though even that is moderated.

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Re:Reddit CEO tells employees that subreddit blackout ‘will ... by Asdrubalini on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @03:24PM (#36315551)

I don't want zero moderation, I just want good moderation, which is not the case when you have a few mods that push their agenda over many enormous subs.

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