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Re:The note Reddit sent to moderators threatening them if th... by ahepp on Friday June 16, 2023 @12:59PM (#36359972)
If mods on Reddit really believed they were irreplaceable, wouldn’t it make more sense to protest by quitting?
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Re:The note Reddit sent to moderators threatening them if th... by revscat on Friday June 16, 2023 @01:29PM (#36360504)
No one is claiming to be irreplaceable, although if you have evidence to the contrary you're welcome to provide it.
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Re:The note Reddit sent to moderators threatening them if th... by rpearl on Friday June 16, 2023 @01:15PM (#36360239)
But that's not why the protest is happening...?
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Re:The note Reddit sent to moderators threatening them if th... by Havoc on Friday June 16, 2023 @01:57PM (#36360911)
>If mods on Reddit really believed they were irreplaceable

I was going more for "very hard, especially in bulk and on short notice" than irreplaceable there.

>wouldn’t it make more sense to protest by quitting?

Already did a while back...used to mod some big-ish subs.

Going private seems like a reasonable intermediate step though. A bit like workers holding a strike instead of straight to mass resignation

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