• God@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      No moderation would get them immediately banned and replaced. It’s not a sustainable form of protest. It may lead to lower moderation levels in the short and medium term. But in the long term it means the permanent replacement and takeover of subreddits by admins and their puppets.

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        I seriously doubt reddit has that level of manpower or cronies to spare. The site is seriously not sustainable if they have to do the paid labor it would require to do all of this themselves.

        Doubly so on weekends. Which would, conveniently, be when such a protest could start. The 1st of July is a Saturday. Imagine you being the guy being told “We need you to stay in the office on Saturday playing frontpage whack a mole against our entire userbase. There WILL be porn in there. So much porn.”

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          I seriously doubt reddit has that level of manpower or cronies to spare. The site is seriously not sustainable if they have to do the paid labor it would require to do all of this themselves.

          My idea is they have lower quality alternatives for free as well, which are the bootlickers. I’m sure there are many bootlickers ready to take on free labor (and half-ass it due to being inexperienced and/or stupid) who would readily replace existing moderators if Reddit admins allowed that.

          It would obviously fuck the quality but yeah.

          Doubly so on weekends. Which would, conveniently, be when such a protest could start. The 1st of July is a Saturday. Imagine you being the guy being told “We need you to stay in the office on Saturday playing frontpage whack a mole against our entire userbase. There WILL be porn in there. So much porn.”

          Lmao. Yeah they’d have to get many many bootlickers for this hahahah. I know they’ll struggle, but I think they’ll manage, they’ll just have to spend an ungodly amount of effort and probably a bit of those sweet profits on this.

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      Except, the local alternative here is completely deserted.

      The local community is deserted because it’s deserted. Which sounds like a dumb thing to say, but the community on reddit survives because the users and content are already there. They have no reason to come here if there’s no content for them to interact with. But we all know that a minority of users post a majority of content, and nobody wants to post content where there’s nobody to interact with it. The ones that post content have to be the first to leave, and then the rest might follow.