2y ago

Reddit mods are calling for an ‘affordable return’ for third-party apps

www.theverge.com Reddit mods are calling for an “affordable return” for third-party apps

They want Reddit to respond by June 29th.

Some of Reddit’s most popular communities have posted open letters to the company with a series of requests regarding many key issues at the heart of the recent protests on the platform. They want a response by June 29th.

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Just stop moderating them already. Don't go dark. Reddit will revert. Don't make it NSFW to stop ad profits. Reddit will revert. Just. Stop. Moderating.
Let it fill up with nudes and hate speech and then sure, let's have Reddit forcibly remove you. They'll pull in a new team of mods but if they're just picked out of the blue, they're unlikely to find the time and energy necessary to do it well because this takes passion and many teams were assembled carefully over time with votes and selection processes for a reason. It's often a team effort of passionate people. Moderating poorly risks putting the subreddit on collision course with the community but hey that is Spez and gang's problem, not yours.
I don't think there is any other language that Reddit understands than this. Mods -- take a breather and see what the world has to offer. It's not just all about Reddit.
- Exactly. Stop moderating and remove any auto moderating bots. That's it. Let Reddit self destruct.
  
  But they can't do it because Reddit moderators almost always have nothing else going for them. They cling to their moderator status so feverishly, if they gave it up they'd have nothing else going for them.
  
  Great childish dehumanization for no reason
- Reddit will then replace them, as they've threatened and reiterated through all of this

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