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.
Reddit CEO slams protesters, says he'll change site rules
3 years ago by SocialSpirit to c/fedia
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.
@spaceraser Yep, that’s the script right there. 😒
He's really doing us all a favor by giving us absolute certainty that ditching reddit is the right move.
@jerry That’s what I thought! I’m bringing 🍿 in for tomorrow’s instalment.
To be honest, I didn't expect the Reddit CEO to get this defensive about the decision. It seems like with each move he's just putting more gas on the fire. He probably should have just stayed quite and let the inconvenience of the blackout make the Reddit community shift their anger to the mods to finally open up again.
The assumption here is the CEO is unusually smart
@Zigzagged4044
You are so right. He couldn’t have made it any worse if he’d just stayed quiet.
This is expected. Of course Reddit wasn’t going to allow their subreddits to be hijacked.
I’m glad I deleted my account. Crappy company. Worse CEO.
Oh I think it's the fine rarified air they breathe and Musk, well he has a well known record. /s
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.
Spez showing he’s only slightly less of a moron the Musk. Nice.
Well, this is turning out well. Yay Reddit. Yay Fediverse.
I'm pretty sure it is widely supported
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.
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.
go to feed...
go to feed...
"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
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