No, we will not be going dark. The reasons are simple:

  1. This form of protest has proven ineffective on reddit repeatedly.

  2. Shutting down the sub on a Monday will have an adverse impact on our readers, including possible production issues.

  3. We have avoided reddit “politics” intentionally and will continue to do so.

You are more than welcome to avoid participating on that day which will make the message far clearer to reddit through their metrics than shutting down the sub to folks in need who would be here anyways.

It’s disappointing to see the r/sysadmin mods take this stance, but I guess in a way it’s a good thing that they’ve shown their true colors.

Here’s hoping that c/sysadmin thrives and replaces it in the near future as the go-to place for all sysadmin stuff.

  • XKSS_
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    1 year ago

    Lol as if career sysadmins rely on a forum where 90% of people moan about their job, how they’re the only IT person being on call 24/7/365, having abusive users.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah, that is a pretty deluded take on the part of those mods. They really think their subreddit is to sysadmins as stack exchange is to developers

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      1 year ago

      As someone who loosely follows that sub I always have to step away pretty quick because folks are so negative about their jobs

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        1 year ago

        Yeah, I’m in the same boat. I used to post and try to help out people but around 2019 or 2020 the overall tone of posts and responses went in a negative direction where it didn’t really make sense to respond to the 100th post about “my boss is a micromanager” or someone complaining about a botched update that they installed ON patch tuesday.