• balls_expert@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOP
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    I think, on Reddit, the analogy is closer to the landed gentry: The people who get there first get to stay there and pass it down to their descendants, and that is not democratic.

    you have been muted and can no longer contact the moderators of /r/modcoord

    this mf is going to give people a voting system to kick out mods, and they’re gonna use it to kick out the mods he just picked who stopped the subs from going private

    that would be really funny, i think

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      They literally threatened to ban r/WorkReform when it planned to elect mods. You can’t make this shit up.

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        The current workreform mods perma ban you for even commenting on the blackout. Fuck them too. Burn it all.

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      A part of me believes they will give some bs reason to keep their “scab” mods immune, but I would love if they didn’t and the chaos that would ensue.

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      This is basically Stalin saying “the kulaks are too privileged”, not because he wanted to distribute the land, but because he wanted to expropriate it to bruteforce economic development.

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      You’re right, a former mod of The_Donald was trying to become a mod of r/aww this week during the protests. So that’s exactly what’s already happening, Reddit is about to get a whole lot worse.

      I’m on Lemmy now so I’ll watch from afar with 🍿

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    He’s talking about democracy but there was no democratic vote in place regarding the API costs they’re going to implement. So he’s only about democracy when he thinks it suits him.

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      Can we vote out the admins too? The CEO? No? But muh democracy Steve!

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    Ok this one surprised me. Seems like they’re starting to actually get worried.

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    He somehow seems to genuinely thing that there are enough replacement mods just waiting around that he could nuke the mod teams of huge subreddits like r/aww and be fine

    I don’t think most of the people claiming on reddit that they are willing to replace mods understand how crazy of a job it is to moderate a community with 20 million subscribers. Reddit will end up literally full of blatant right wing agitprop in literally every subreddit. Communities will get banned for child porn because their mods won’t see it in the hundreds of submissions per minute. Spam will become commonplace, especially if bots get removed (and so far it looks like they will).

    It’s genuinely funny seeing so many users getting mad about the blackout and demanding new mods, but not realizing at all how much worse it will be.

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    It was the powertripping mods that kept reddit from being profitable?

    I thought it was users on third party apps. Or the Apollo devs doing a bunch of unnecessary API calls.