Reddit CEO seeks to end site protest by allowing users to vote out moderators

3 years ago by Ruweg to c/tech

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.

The title is from this video, although that one is very short.

I'm glad I've given up on Reddit after the blackout, this proposal to vote out moderators will only encourage raiding, as only the people who pay attention to the votes will decide who stays on. And let's not forget that one of the cornerstones if Reddit has always been that you can make your own sub.

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Brusparrow 3 points 3 years ago

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.

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Trebach 2 points 3 years ago

Here's subs that took part in the blackout, but the subscriber counts are grouped together into 40m+, 30m+... down to 1k and below. It's not exact and the numbers have likely changed since, but it's a starting point.

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Brusparrow 1 point 3 years ago

Thanks, man.

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