Reddit subs with millions of followers plan to extend the blackout indefinitely

Re:Reddit subs with millions of followers plan to extend the... by mrandish on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @04:20PM (#36316451)

This may prompt Reddit to push ahead on their threat to take over key subs that stay dark by replacing the moderators with their own. Of course, Reddit can't afford to scale that to very many popular subs as modding those is extremely labor intensive.

Worse for Reddit, dumping long-time community moderators en masse would be crossing a Rubicon that could tip Reddit into a death spiral of low-effort moderation reducing content quality and engagement which will feed back on itself. The mods going dark for longer may in fact be hoping to goad Reddit into responding with such self-destructive stupidity.

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Re:Reddit subs with millions of followers plan to extend the... by ranger207 on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @04:39PM (#36316843)

I'm really not sure the big subs would suffer all that much. Many of them are already modded by a clique of mods and are large enough that there's not really any community to be had there anyway. It would be pretty terrible for the small communities that were reddit's most valuable part

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Re:Reddit subs with millions of followers plan to extend the... by CryptoBanker on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @05:19PM (#36317529)

Replacing a few mods that moderate many large communities with paid mods is ripping the door wide open to lawsuits

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Re:Reddit subs with millions of followers plan to extend the... by post-it on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @06:07PM (#36318255)

What damages would who experience?

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Re:Reddit subs with millions of followers plan to extend the... by narism on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @09:16PM (#36320043)

Defamation for starters. See Neibich v. Reddit and Berger v. Reddit. So far section 230 has shielded them from much of these but the law has been targeted over the last couple years. So far the Supreme Court hasn’t addressed questions on the scope of section 230. I’m guessing the thinking goes if section 230 scope is narrowed and moderators are on the company payroll that could move them from a content provider (not liable) to more of a newspaper publishing articles (liable).

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Re:Reddit subs with millions of followers plan to extend the... by heyparkerj on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @04:27PM (#36316580)

Did Reddit actually make that threat or was that just a fearful suspicion from the userbase?

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