Reddit has called moderators actions “malicious” and against the wishes of the community members. The numbers tell a different story. These are COMMUNITY protests and marking them otherwise is simply misinformation from reddit staff.
Don’t even get me started on the “It’s not ok to show people NSFW content when the don’t want to see it.” message that reddit has been sending out. The people clearly want this and even if they didn’t, REDDIT HAS A NWFW TOGGLE! As well as nswf blurring. No one who hasn’t flipped that toggle is seeing nsfw content.
When spez says “We don’t want to show NSFW to users” they mean they don’t care how many users voted, they are saying “We don’t want to give a bad impression to users that will use Reddit no matter what”.
They just don’t care about anything else that isn’t money, if they could replace Reddit users with tiktok users they would be thrilled, even if they lose 12+ year old accounts with thousands of comments.
With this I’m not saying the protest is useless, it has the power to basically kill Reddit if enough users participate in it.He means “NSFW hurts ad revenue”
Yup. Keep up the pressure.
Don’t really need or want my data during my time in reddit, but it was an easy form to fill, and I spent years making it (although not as many as some of those 10+ year-old accounts), and if it is a pain in the butt for them to send then screw it, its mine and I want it.
11+ years, ran shreddit, stuff keeps popping up, sent request to see what’s left.
It seems the Redditors are fighting against Spez here. Good.
Before the protest happened, most of the subs that I was on took a community vote about whether to take part in the protest and for how long.
The admins’ new mental gymnastics routine is pointing out that users who are logged in and voting are only a tiny portion of actual site visits, which are mostly anonymous no-account lurkers, so it’s still the minority holding the subreddit hostage from the majority even when there’s an overwhelming majority on the polls.
Of course, this assertion makes “the wishes of the community members” literally whatever the fuck the admins want to say it is since as soon as those masses create an account and express an opinion, they become part of the trolling minority whose opinions are to be discarded.
So I read what they said to mean “the content creators decided to close, the content consumers want you to be open”. Honestly, no one is posting/making/contributing without an account.
If the actors refuse to take the stage, the audience cannot force them to perform. The theater manager lifting the curtain should not change this.
You’re not wrong about your second paragraph, but since you seem to question how I got to my interpretation about admins making up what the “community wishes” are, I think you’re missing some context for what I said.
My comment specifically is referencing another recent post in which the admins said community polls aren’t truly signifying what the community wants because logged-in users don’t compose a significant portion of unique visitors.
I agree. Anyone who’s surprised that snoosite is spreading misinformation hasn’t been paying attention. It sucks. But at least we have the fediverse. :)
