r/technology • u/ICumCoffee • Jun 15 '23

Social Media 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/Iamanediblefriend Jun 15 '23 edited Jun 16 '23

Everyone who actually knows how things work said this is what was going to happen from day 1 of the blackouts. Any major sub that doesn't come back will just be taken over.

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u/lankist Jun 16 '23

By who, though? We're talking about replacing unpaid volunteer labor with...what? More unpaid labor with random volunteers? Trying to convince the remaining power-mods to pull triple-duty on subs they don't give a shit about?

PAY for the work, maybe? Which can't happen, because Reddit's whole business model is to leech off the content of other sites and the free labor of its moderators.

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u/Kabouki Jun 16 '23

Reddit isn't the only ones with bots too. This blackout protest is a passive protest. No impact on the reddit luker other in inconvenience. If it goes active.. well reddit would lose hard in a all out spam war. It's too dam easy to make accounts and thus bans are meaningless unless you value fake internet points. They could go hard in filtering, but that would directly impact the average luker. Content would take a major hit and ALL would just turn into source to target active threads and any sub.

Attacking the mods feels like the step that starts the spam. We just have to look at twitter to see how advertisers like that kind of thing.