Several subreddits had begun allowing porn and not safe for work content to protest Reddit. In response, the platform has removed entire moderator teams from the affected subreddits.
Several subreddits had begun allowing porn and not safe for work content to protest Reddit. In response, the platform has removed entire moderator teams from the affected subreddits.
You protest mostly to force the other side to either accept the demands or to discuss a compromise, through a show of power. The goal of a protest is not the damage itself; the damage is just a mean to an end.
When the goal is to damage the adversary, it isn’t a protest, it’s simply war. And IMO the moderators and other users should be warring Reddit Inc., not just protesting. They should actively seek to cause damage to the company as a goal.
In other words: it was good that they privated subs, posted John Oliver pictures, flipped subs to NSFW, but this is too little now. All those actions assume that they’ll take control over the subreddit later on, and resume businesses as usual. They won’t, the platform is already lost for them - they should be actively destroying the subreddits, so the enemy (Reddit Inc.) doesn’t use it against them.