- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.world
1 percent of active mods will be affected, Reddit says.
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The fact that humans continue to mod for free, to make reddit a profit which they will never see, baffles me.
It almost made sense back when it seemed like users felt they owned their content. Now that spez has made it clear that belief was wrong, providing free labor is a fool’s errand.
It used to have more of a geocities vibe. I could create a new subreddit and it ostensibly belonged to me.
The big subs should just let it go unmodded for a week, I’ve been a mod of a big sub once and fuck damn people posted and commented some insane shit. Let r/aww go unmodded, that will fuck Reddit’s advertisement. It would take half an hour before r/aww became r/gaww
I think automation tools “work” if one lets them do more false positives than not.
This is why I think a lot of Reddit is automatically modded now, because of the unfair treatment people report
A few of those decisions would be sensible in another context, or if done in a different way.
Mod limits: it would be great if it wasn’t just part of a petty power janny mods vs. “waaah we need to wrestle control of the site back from this filthy landed gentry!” admins. And the way it’s being done I expect lots and lots of meat/sock puppets.
Also note that, while the number of mods might be relatively small, the number of subreddits affected will be way larger. We all know about the power concentration in that shithole.
Number of visitors and contributions: the idea here is to simply cook the numbers; larger numbers = better advertisement. Specially because they could show the old metric alongside the new ones, but they didn’t.
[Reddit] made a mountain out of a molehill. This was a combo of punishment for the few abusive mods who moderated hundreds of subreddits and would squat on them, performing no actions but lording over the users and other mods … and the few mods that took their [subreddits] private and held them hostage every so often when [Reddit] enacted an insanely boneheaded policy decision.
Emphasis mine. If you’re too eager to accept shit from the above, and complain when people don’t do the same, you are a toilet and deserve to be treated as such.
And no, odds are it isn’t “punishment”. Reddit Inc. doesn’t care about you enough to “punish” you. You’re simply some collateral in the power struggle, “landed gentry”.
Gregory_K_Zhukov also questioned whether Reddit automatically deletes mod-removed comments from profiles. They argued that this makes modding harder by limiting the amount of information available, including whether or not Reddit has previously punished a user for similar behavior.
I also criticise the decision on the same grounds this mod is doing.
I’m glad I left that shithole.
That shithole left me.
0.1 % is what they say. Why are they even still there after all that happened? Is “power” really that important to everyone?
The power matters for the sort of bootlicker still moderating Reddit because it’s what gives their lives meaning. And it matters for Reddit Inc. because it enables it to profit more from the site.
I never met one on reddit who wasn’t just getting off on the power trip. I think the nature of that role just draws a certain type who wants to do a specific thing
I never met one on reddit who wasn’t just getting off on the power trip.
The ones who don’t, you never meet.
I’ve met a few here on Lemmy!
Yeah. I feel like, if you aren’t powertripping, moderating lots of subs feels like a bother; and there’s a limit on how much abuse you go through before you say “fuck this, I’m out”.
*looks around* 👀
I only mod /r/WestAllis because it was locked from new submissions; I just wanted to reopen it for public discussion and to promote a local board game gathering I run there (which has gotten maybe one redditor who is also on Facebook, which is where the bulk of promotion happens anyway). So, there: you have now met at least one, lol.
yeah in retrospect that was probably pretty harsh. there’s probably a lot of moderators I interacted with that I just didn’t even realize were chill. also, good on you. 😁👍
Their stock is at 200 something now.
Shit sells, man.
Under new rules rolling out over the coming months, a small number of users will be required to leave some of their moderator posts so that they aren’t moderating more than five subreddits with 100,000 monthly visitors.
Good. We could do with a similar rule here on lemmy. I know there’s probably a lack of people to fill all the needed moderator positions, but I’m pretty sick of seeing the same people moderating the majority of communities that I visit.
It becomes especially apparent when someone gets banned from one community and the powermod bans them from every other community that they moderate. It’s rare that someone actually deserves that type of scorched-earth response.
