Steve Huffman, the Reddit CEO, told NBC News in an interview that a user protest on the site this week is led by a minority of moderators and doesn’t have wide support.
“Congratulations, you’ve just been promoted as the lead moderator of /r/Whatever. We’re going to need you to unlock the subreddit.”
“What? What happened to the other mods?”
“Don’t worry about it. Just unlock the subreddit.”
“Why don’t you just unlock it? You’re the owners, you can do whatever you want.”
“We’re going to need someone to moderate it when it comes back online, and we don’t have the money for that kind of manpower. Please focus, I need you to unlock the subreddit and prepare for the community to come back online.”
“Yeah, I’m not going to do that.”
“That’s unfortunate, but I can’t say I’m surprised.”
You’ve been removed as a Moderator of /r/Whatever
This is turning out to be even more fascinating than twitter
He’s really doing us all a favor by giving us absolute certainty that ditching reddit is the right move.
Strictly speaking, he’s correct that it’s a minority of moderators because there’s a lot of zombie subreddits on there which didn’t take part in the protest. Still not a good look to be picking fights with your biggest contributors.
That idea of users voting out moderators off their positions if not implemented properly it could be abused. With how many bots and throwaway accounts there are, a voting system for that I don’t see going well.
Maybe I’m missing something, maybe they end up implementing it well. Either way I doubt I’ll back to reddit. I quite like it here.
If these rule changes happen, should we login to reddit to vote against spez’s hand-picked mods as needed, (and campaign against them?), or is it best to stay off there still?
How to kill a company 101. I think we should take notes from Elon Musk and this clown.
I’ve seen a lot of suggestions to delete your content before deleting your account, and if you’re in Europe, to file a GDPR data removal request. Since reddit is nothing without the content, that seems like the way to go.
I was going to do that, but then I realized that over half my comments were: “LOL”, so I just deleted my account.
