I’ve been the main moderator of the same community since 2016. This evening, i approved my last comment.

I’m leaving for two reasons:

  1. Reddit went public a week ago. I didn’t volunteer to work for a publicly traded company, i volunteered to work for a community. As long as i live under capitalism i accept that my labor will generate value for shareholders, but damned if i ever do it for free. (this is not a Faulkner quote)

  2. April 1st is coming and i’m scared they might do another r/place. Doing in r/place 2022 and 2023 has left me dejected and bitter and i don’t want to feel obligated to participate again.

Leaving felt like ripping myself off of something warm i’ve been comfortably glued to for a long time. Still recommend it for anyone still giving Reddit shareholders free labor

EDIT: there are too many comments to respond to, but i’ve appreciated all of them! Thank you

  • @MataVatnik
    6•8 months ago

    No need to be an asshole about it, the important thing is that he moved on, the path he took is not relevant.

    • @woop_woop
      -3•8 months ago

      I didn’t think I was being an asshole. The questions I asked were genuine, and I think I was pretty neutral with pointing out how OP shares blame in the situation they are in.

      And, through all that, i summed it up with how silly this whole situation is - especially when you look at how OP is responding in the thread. This comes across as a “look at me, I did something good, tell me how nice I am” post. Given the rest of the situations context, just ugh.

      • southsamurai
        1•8 months ago

        “This is silly to me”. Followed by a bunch of snide questions.

        “the revolt failed because mods like you wouldn’t stand up”. Throwing blame on someone that did nothing that harmed you directly, and that even assumes a niche mod would have had any impact in the results at all.

        “I certainly don’t understand why you would move to another place in the Internet and announce this silly view.” Then you go on to call them silly again, and criticize them for making a post in the proper C/ for that kind of venting.

        Then your entire comment here is repeating that, doubling down on the same thighs, and then accuse them of begging for attention.

        I get it. You didn’t think you were being an asshole. You were. To avoid that in the future, try not using language that denigrates, belittles, or dismisses someone, and you are much less likely to end up being an asshole. And you 100% were being an asshole. If there were a textbook in being an asshole online, your two comments could serve as perfect examples of how to do it without resorting to cursing. That’s pretty much the only thing you could have done to make it worse without going entirely off topic.

        One asshole to another? You gotta either learn not to be an asshole, or own that shit and not pretend you aren’t.