Reddit CEO Steve Huffman said he wants to end user-led protest by instituting a rule that would allow users to vote out moderators who have overseen the protest. NBC News' David Ingram shares the latest.

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman said he wants to end user-led protest by instituting a rule that would allow users to vote out moderators who have overseen the protest. NBC News’ David Ingram shares the latest.

  • Kenraali@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    If only this was an option since forever.

    Power hungry mods who want their own fiefdom to rule over are nasty.

  • JamesGray@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Cool, so now the alt-right nutbags who control r/canada can take over all the other Canadian subreddits and promote far right propaganda and hatred in all the local subs too?

  • Hyperz@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Well that surely wouldn’t backfire in the most spectacular way ever. I mean, it’s not as if Reddit has ever had any vote brigading and botting issues, right? Right?

  • GadgeteerZA@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Which is why I sat for hours this morning, manually deleting all the posts in my subreddit. He is welcome to now hand it to someone else…

        • IncognitoErgoSum@kbin.social
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          1 year ago

          I’ve seen reports here from this morning where people are saying that they’re even restoring comments deleted with Redact.

          From a technical standpoint, adding a database table that is a comment revision history is trivial and barely requires any alternation of existing code. Even reddit could do it.

          I’ve always suspected that they did it a long time ago in response to redact.

  • buedi@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I am sure they will find a lot of “users” who will vote… and then they can claim it was a fair game, haha. I am really enjoying this from afar. Not a day passes until another hilarious “press statement” from that spez. I really loved Reddit for what it was with all the smaller niche communities. These are the ones I miss here, but I hope growth continues and good people come over to populate the fediverse and bring over their unique ideas and discussions.

    • FrostBolt@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      Not a day passes until another hilarious “press statement” from that spez

      It really is something new every day, isn’t it? And it’s begun to be entertaining to watch the collapse

      To quote a reddit admin’s (kn0thing) -11k downvoted comment from an infamous incident 8 years ago:

      Popcorn tastes good.