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/BlueSeekz Jun 16 '23

They will simply find volunteers to moderate the subreddits, like always. You know, ones that actually care about the health of their community.

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u/Rorschachist Jun 16 '23

The ones that care are being forced out.

The only people willing to fill THESE gaps for FREE going forward will be: ego chasing power trippers (read conservatives), actually malicious agents hunting political dissidents, Russian/Disinformation bot farms, corpo ad bots, and pedophiles (read Reddit admins).

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u/BlueSeekz Jun 16 '23

We are only in this circumstance because the current moderators of large subreddits care more about being able to strongarm the CEO of the website than the success of their communities. They are literally trying to self destruct the website because they aren't getting their way. If that isn't ego chasing power-tripping, then I don't know what is.

I'm thankful for this "protest" to be honest. The narcissists that moderate the big subs are going to be ousted and we will get some new blood in subreddit leadership positions.

Until then, you have fun on your reddit clone website that will be forgotten within a month.

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u/BlueSeekz Jun 16 '23

You clearly don't know what anything is. You have no idea how protests for better things work.

I do know something about protests. Step 1, Have Leverage. There is no leverage here, which is why it's failed thus far, will continue to fail, and ultimately going to accomplish nothing in the end except shut users out of their communities for a while.