Main points: He plans to make moderators popularly elected to more easily vote them out.

Hopes the next frontier will be subreddits as businesses.

He does not want Reddit employees to take on the work. Moderator hours were valued at 3.2 million last year, 3% of reddit’s revenue.

  • @Kurumatron
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    751 year ago

    Doesn’t matter what changes he makes I’m never going back to that site that it’s filled with karma farmers, bots and onlyfans spamers

    • Cap
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      101 year ago

      When the subreddits went private I visited reddit three times, then a couple of times the next day, then once the following day. I haven’t visited today and honestly I’m not missing it too much. If I get the urge to visit I just come here and it acts as my reddit nicotine patch.

      • charles15
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        51 year ago

        I just wish it wasn’t always the first few results when you look up information on certain topics. Especially for really niche issues since it’s often the only place with answers right now. That’s basically that only time I visit reddit at this point.

      • @[email protected]
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        41 year ago

        Yeah I’ve been the same, and when I’ve browsed the comments there is so much aggro. Makes me wonder if it’s always been like that and I was just blind to it.

        Overall, the experience here is 1000 times better than Reddit

      • NotMyOldRedditName
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        31 year ago

        Removing relay from my home screen has helped a lot. I’ve accidentally gone to old reddit a couple times and didn’t click on any links but most times I catch myself and come here instead.

        • crilen
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          21 year ago

          Yea I had to swap my icons… Easy way to break the habit.

    • eatmoregreenfood
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      81 year ago

      Honestly fuck reddit. I was so tired of it, but there was nowhere else to go. At least I can develope a more healthy relationship with social media here

      • code_stoic
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        31 year ago

        Reddit was pretty dope when the most popular post of the day had only 2k upvotes. They can keep their millions of users. We only need just enough.

        • Scotty_Trees
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          31 year ago

          That’s also what kind of makes me curious about Tildes too, slowly growing for them is intentional.

    • ethane
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      61 year ago

      Well this will bring me back to reddit… So I can vote out the mods who want to reopen the sub.

    • crilen
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      61 year ago

      Yea I’m actually glad there’s an exodus of people who care. The ones who don’t, I don’t care about them either.

    • ColonyOfMischief
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      31 year ago

      I was logging into Reddit to delete my posts (Which Chrome removed the Nuke Reddit History extension, thanks I guess) and on the front page was just gross homophobic memes. Yeah, I don’t think I’ll ever going back.

  • WabiSabiPapi
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    391 year ago

    popular elections in an ecosystem 1/4 bots, in which the admins hold ultimate unilateral authority.

  • BlinkerFluid
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    331 year ago

    come work for free

    No thanks

    builds an entire self-hosted instance of an open source, federated social media network…

  • @SpaceNoodle
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    They’re just looking for admin-friendly volunteers to cross the picket line and kick out protesting mods. It’s unsurprising that it’s come to this, and has already started in various reddits (such as /r/AdviceAnimals, which still exists, apparently).

  • ForbiddenRoot
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    211 year ago

    He plans to make moderators popularly elected to more easily vote them out.

    I totally second this idea. The last time we tried to get the internet to seriously decide on something we got Boaty McBoatface.

    Hopes the next frontier will be subreddits as businesses.

    Even better. All posts in these subs can be advertisements, perfect.

    He does not want Reddit employees to take on the work. Moderator hours were valued at 3.2 million last year, 3% of reddit’s revenue.

    Yeah, don’t even spend 3% of revenues as a cost of doing business. The soon-to-be-community-elected mods will do it for free. Super.

    • Loccy
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      101 year ago

      The last time we tried to get the internet to seriously decide on something we got Boaty McBoatface.

      And lo, the Internet looked down upon it’s handiwork, and verily, t’was awesome.

      All posts in these (business) subs can be advertisements, perfect.

      And nobody will ever go there. And, two years down the track, u/spaz will hoik up the pricing or cut them off entirely because they’re making money off of a non-profitable Reddit. “We want to work with the business subs but they’re not interested in talking to us and have all thrown their toys out of the pram and shut down”.

      • @[email protected]
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        31 year ago

        Imo in 2 years down the track reddit will be scrubed of nsfw, and then sold to someone else who will maybe try to integrate it with facebook/other social medias to try and get new users

  • supernovae
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    191 year ago

    So you do all that work for nothing just to be able to be voted out? 😂

    • @crwcomposer
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      111 year ago

      Yeah, way fewer people will be willing to put in the effort modding if they can just be voted out. And subreddits that are supposed to represent minority opinions will just get voted out by the opposition.

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    deleted by creator

    • @[email protected]OP
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      It’s not like they don’t know it’s not paid, if it’s a fun hobby people choose to support the communities they love they’d spend the time anyway. But with every move to make Reddit more corporate it makes the sites reliance on volunteers more exploitative.

      • Flaky_Fish69
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        21 year ago

        Eh. a large majority of subreddits are moderated by just a few people as top mods. They’re not modding out of the goodness of their hearts. They’re modding because they’re being paid to. (but not by reddit. It gives them a shit load of influence over what’s on their subs, and companies find that… useful.)

        • NotMyOldRedditName
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          11 year ago

          Isn’t that against the rules if it was proven? Or is it only if the mods post things that financially benefit them?

          • FreeBooteR69
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            11 year ago

            Whose rules? The company makes the rules, they can change them for whatever reason or no reason at all.

            • NotMyOldRedditName
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              I meant reddits current rules, not what they might become.

              I thought it was against the rules for mods to profit from their subs. If the mods of /r/pics started posting McDonalds pictures because McDonalds paid them reddit wouldn’t like that at the moment.

              Not saying it isn’t happening either, you’d need proof to do anything though.

  • @HocEnimVeni
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    161 year ago

    So everyone who left wouldn’t vote and everyone who stayed can end the blackout

    • NotMyOldRedditName
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      51 year ago

      I’m not opposed to only going over there on old.reddit to vote the opposite of whats in Reddits best interests. Mods being a problem and you want them removed? Vote to keep them.

    • vyvanse
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      81 year ago

      Right? How does he not see that this is a terrible idea.

      • @[email protected]OP
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        41 year ago

        Probably because he has back end control to make sure elections give him what he wants with the veneer of popular support.

    • @[email protected]
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      41 year ago

      Ok, reading the article, removing mods through voting doesnt sound too bad when you consider that turtle-something mod, who moderates way too many servers and removes/bans every post/user talking shit about them. Finally we can get power hungry mods out the fucking door.

      Too bad they only decided to work on it to kick those mods keeping the blackout alive. Like why do they want to fight their userbase so badly

  • wrath-sedan
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    131 year ago

    While undeniably shitty, how amazing would it be if after instituting popular voting on mods more subreddits voted to go private? Not likely but it is tempting

    • ForbiddenRoot
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      61 year ago

      I feel one of the reasons many subs have not gone indefinitely dark is that the mods too are attached to their communities, and probably rightfully so. If they are going to get booted out, which may easily happen when you leave it up to the Reddit horde to decide, then they might just decide to shut down the sub.

      • @lka1988
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        I made a hard decision to leave my sub two years ago; I couldn’t keep up with the ever-backing up mod queue, and I was going through a divorce (good thing, I promise), and work was picking up steam. I had adopted it from /r/redditrequest several years ago because it was a fun novelty sub with like 8 posts that had clearly been dead for a couple years, with [deleted] as the creator. I revived it, and now it’s a nearly 1.2M user shitposting sub. It’s beautiful. It’s my baby and all growed up… and it’s name is /r/FUCKYOUINPARTICULAR.

        Miss that place. They even tried to participate in the blackout.

  • Nougat
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    131 year ago

    Oh you want to have popular elections for mods? Do it, see what happens. Poll crashing is a fucking sport.

    Oh yeah, and:

    “If you’re a politician or a business owner, you are accountable to your constituents. So a politician needs to be elected, and a business owner can be fired by its shareholders,” he said.

    CEO of a company doesn’t even understand business ownership. Business owners cannot be fired. They can be bought out. Shareholders are owners. C-level employees are almost universally also owners. Nobody can just “take away” ownership; it has to be bought, and an owner of property is the person who gets to decide whether to sell it or not. What an idiot.

  • Catch42
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    121 year ago

    He referred to the mods as landed gentry, which is such a gross and lazy way to try to get people on his side. It has a major flaw too: mods are unpaid, the whole idea behind gentry is that they make money from owning their land.

    Let me help you out spez, you piece of shit, if you want to criticize the millions of dollars of unpaid work that mods do for their communities try comparing them to an HOA committee, that at least has a kernel of truth.

    • Melon_Cooler
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      101 year ago

      It’s even more hilarious when the label is much more accurately applied to capital owners such as himself; they are the ones actually making money off of other people’s labour via their ownership (of a company rather than land).

  • decavolt
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    111 year ago

    He can stuff the votes with bots and get what he wants. Don’t think for a second that he’ll let people like you and I succeed at voting out mods who are on his side.