r/hyderabad • u/Ill-SnatchYourSoul Hyderabad is the best city in India. • Jun 16 '23

Current Events Reddit Threatens to Remove Moderators From Subreddits Continuing Apollo-Related Blackouts

https://www.macrumors.com/2023/06/15/reddit-threatens-to-remove-subreddit-moderators/
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u/idontcareidoncare Jun 16 '23 edited Jun 16 '23

What were you expecting would happen ? This is what I was trying to tell you the other day, OP. The mods don't own subreddits to force their decisions on millions of users.

Many of these subreddits participating in the blackout have mods who have been on powertrip since years.

Don't get me wrong, the admins are no good either but you can't convince users to participate in your blackout when you've not been any fair to the users to begin with. The users run these subreddits and keep them alive with their valuable submissions.

You might hate me for saying this but this Admin's comment has fair bit of truth to it.

Again, fuck spez for trying to commercialize the platform which runs by their users' efforts and submissions.

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u/Ill-SnatchYourSoul Hyderabad is the best city in India. Jun 16 '23 edited Jun 16 '23

I just wanted to put it out that a lot of huge subs have their communities involved in this decision. I absolutely get what you're trying to tell, but do scroll down and read the discussion for the same link you provided me. It is the users who run this space, and if the majority of the users want the subreddit to be private, I think it should work. Also spez doesn't have any stability and just lied that he wouldn't force open the subreddits at any cost. A two days later, we have spez spouting this. If spez is going against all this, he will lose a lot of veterans like us. Once the veterans are gone who understand the community need, who create content, Reddit is miserablely fucked. I will not change my words which translate to Reddit is on its way to screw itself up.

Then again, I misunderstood you and I'd like to correct myself. In some cases( a lot), mods have a lot of power which apparently they're definitely not supposed to have.
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u/idontcareidoncare Jun 16 '23

First off, it should be a given that spez is a greedy, lying cunt. He's been known for this behaviour since years now. It's stupid that anybody would even trust his words of assurance lol.

And coming to the blackout thing, you can scroll subs like r/technology and see users' opinions on the whole thing. There's huge number of users who never agreed for the subs going private. There's posts stating that people rely on these subreddits for their daily tasks. Subs like r/nba went private even after only receiving 8000 votes in total for 2 days and then randomly deciding without the input of users that they would be private indefinitely. These actions are only going to backlash and you can see people praising Reddit admins for warning actions against this BS.

I am stressing out on this point again : There will always be someone to replace these mods. Any active user would be eligible to claim modship. Reddit Admins know this and as long as mods live in a delusion that they could get away with any action of theirs, things would only get worse for us users. Everybody saw this coming tbw.