“Hopefully this post is a beginning.”

Two IMO on-point excerpts of the article:

The highest-ranked replies are very critical of the post. “What good is our feedback when reddit seems perfectly happy to ignore all of it?” wrote one user. “What’s the point?” Another pointed out that Huffman called mods “landed gentry.” “Show, don’t tell,” wrote another user — to which the admin replied, “Agreed.”

“A beginning of what?” replied one user. “This solves nothing, and just wastes everybody’s time.”

Reddit’s administration is sounding more and more like an abusive SO trying to gaslight you into staying in the relationship. “Baby I’ll listen to you, I swear.”

    • sim_@beehaw.org
      24·
      1 year ago

      And don’t forget outright libel against the Apollo dev before he came back with recordings.

    • Enigma@sh.itjust.works
      19·
      1 year ago

      The only reason why they decided to pull this stunt is because more mods left than they expected and they’re realizing there aren’t enough qualified people out there to replace them.

      • athos77@kbin.social
        18·
        1 year ago

        I hardly think that’s fair. They also completely underestimated the quality impact there would be on reddit from losing mod tools, and they’ve also had just about enough time to start to realize how very very much they don’t know about accessibility needs for the disabled.

        • Enigma@sh.itjust.works
          15·
          1 year ago

          The fact they completely forgot about disabled users. I really don’t understand how that got past the lawyers.

          • themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.works
            4·
            1 year ago

            I mean personally I hadn’t though about blind users (which maybe says a lot about me) but I’m not a corporation it’s honestly baffling that reddit would forget too, and that nobody pointed out (or if they did they got shut down).

            It’s straight up insulting that once pointed out publicly, reddit didn’t immediately walk back its behaviour.

        • athos77@kbin.social
          11·
          1 year ago

          pad the numbers

          Which is exactly why they’re running /r/place again tomorrow: they’ve lost traffic and the need to pad the numbers so they expect (probably rightfully) that /r/place will give them numbers to offset their losses.

          Of course, they’re going to totally ignore the image that comes out of /r/place, which is probably going to be “API - fuck /u/spez”. Or maybe they’ll invite xQc and his cult to grief the instance again. Or do the thing where admins can ignore the rate limits again.