interestingasfuck has been unmoderated and closed for weeks now. Other subs are going to get the same treatment, and going dark is worse than going NSFW. The most effective form of protest any sub can engage in at this point is forcing Reddit to fire and fail to replace them.
I guess people just don’t want to moderate anymore.
Y’know, if they had walked everything back - or even just reduced API costs - right away, no one would have left. Now their top content creators have left, and nothing they do will repair the damage.
An even better strategy for Reddit would have been to prevent Spez from making public statements about it. If the protestations had been ignored it would have blown over quickly.
Unfortunately…
Reddit demands moderators remove NSFW labels, or else / Anyone who opposes Reddit’s “final warning” will have their mod powers removed.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/6/23786474/reddit-nsfw-moderator-protest-final-warning
I wonder if Reddit realizes that subreddits are going NSFW because they don’t have the tools to combat NSFW content.
This isn’t a threat by moderators, this is self preservation. They literally have no where else to go.
They take away the NSFW tags, then they will be blamed for any NSFW content that gets public attention.
So it’s a lose/lose situation.
Let 'em.
interestingasfuck has been unmoderated and closed for weeks now. Other subs are going to get the same treatment, and going dark is worse than going NSFW. The most effective form of protest any sub can engage in at this point is forcing Reddit to fire and fail to replace them.
I guess people just don’t want to moderate anymore.
The ultimate “nobody wants to work”
Except it was for free and everyone took the piss out of you for doing it.
Y’know, if they had walked everything back - or even just reduced API costs - right away, no one would have left. Now their top content creators have left, and nothing they do will repair the damage.
An even better strategy for Reddit would have been to prevent Spez from making public statements about it. If the protestations had been ignored it would have blown over quickly.
They brought gasoline to a house fire, and now are wondering what happened.