Cool, if we’re doing votes and democracy, I vote we remove Spez.

Isn’t that how it works?

It's amazing that they have had years of people complaining about mods and it's always been "if you don't like the moderation policy of a community, you can find one that better suits your tastes" but when it impacts them suddenly there is a need for a policy change and democracy.

It's gonna be funny if users vote in favor of the protest and against pro-spez mods.

Maybe he will start editing other people's votes too!

Allowing moderators to be voted out? That's just like in my favourite game "Among Us"

What could possibly go wrong ?

im so gonna create bot accounts if this goes through

I see he also mentions revenue sharing and running subreddits as a business.

Users being paid for the content they create sounds nice conceptually, but I would fully expect whatever implementation Reddit comes up with to be a disaster. Once money is involved on large platforms you see every crypto / nft / hustle-culture bro in a twenty mile radius show up trying to make a quick buck off of their latest scam, and a general appeal to whatever is the lowest common denominator that can be easily pumped out.

I'm fully expecting that to either be a disaster, or more likely to not even happen in the first place given that a lot of CEO interview talk is hot air.

They've waited a long time to profit from our conversations online for a long time. I mean back in the day reddit didn't host any content directly until self posts were created. For images and videos you'd always link to YouTube or giffy. Reddit ran quite cheaply and effeciently.

First Reddit wanted to own the content which is starting offering to host images and videos inside it's product and now they're about to paywall it off and wrap it in adverts for their own client. It's about taking your content and owning it in the sense they can charge for it and it's taken a few steps to realise this.

Whether kbin or lemmy or any alternative survives, people should always prefer the approach of keeping content platform netural. Outside of individual forums and walled gardens. Host things outside of slack, outside of Reddit, outside of Facebook so that it's open to the whole internet and for new platforms in the future.

Reddit users who want to continue to enjoy Reddit communities should still try and host outside the platform for the benefit of others.

Reddit is frequented by many IT guys (no gender implied).

Reddit is angering the IT guys.

Reddit doesn't seem to know they your NEVER mess with the IT guy.

Bots voting out the humans.

This cannot possibly end well. Beyond its likely initial purpose of ending the protest, how does it work after that? There's only so far you can go with stopping bots from voting moderators out and taking over subreddits. Even if you somehow get rid of all the bots, it's not that difficult for a coordinated group to take over a subreddit, especially smaller ones.

This seems like shooting from the hip.

Nice sub you got there, would be a shame if someone just took it over.

WAIT!!!! Spez IS a Reddit moderator, literally his userpage says "moderation", can you vote him out?

How would that even work? You can't see which mod or AEO monkey is responsible for mod abuse. And you probably can't vote out spez either.

There's just something about COVID that seems to make all tech companies go from questionable to full-on evil.

Isn't this just a Motte and Bailey

Completely ignoring the real issue in favor of "the silent majority"

Anyone shorting Reddit stock the moment they do their IPO? I would if I could lol

This could ruin every controversial sub on the site

The Snoo Platform's playbook is now provocation...

Snoo likes its chaotic platform.

Let's see what a rating a cesspool gets on Wall Street, because this is how you make the remains of Reddit one

If someone from r/dataisbeautiful is on here, could you make a graph of the subs and their subscriber numbers which took part in the blackout? We could start some useful deduction from that.

I've not been keeping up with Reddit, bit what is the general mood from users?

I remember seeing some threads announcing blackouts getting tons of comments saying that it won't help and the blackout should be longer. Not to mention the movement of people wanting to torch their comments.

Is there any truth to them saying that this is only a minority of angry power tripping mods? Like, this seems a very odd move for Reddit to make unless they were super out of touch.

this will surely sit well with the already pissed off community