Over on Reddit, /r/AssholeDesign was taken over by a moderator that had been radio silent for over two years. The linked Imgur album contains modmail screenshots and our entire conversation after calling them out for this betrayal.
Yup, every sub that participated or said anything against reddit's choices is going to have their mods removed. Even if you went public when reddit asked you to.
They will not risk this again closer to the IPO
Yeah, they obviously won’t take a risk with ‘uncooperative mods’.
Oh boy, some 14-year old finally got his first power-trip boner! Congratulations to him for bending over.
I hope the rest of you guys step back and let him enjoy the joys of modding alone or with other incompetent shills.
Looks like it's been removed. I'm seeing a total of 7 posts since 2 weeks ago when sorting by new.
Is it still there? I couldn't find it. In the meantime, I posted this :D https://www.reddit.com/...
It's really flying under the radar.
I always thought a subreddit was created and if the creator stepped down, they could decide to hand it over or nuke it, similar to a discord server or something. Never realized the "I made this" meme was reddit in a nutshell. I'd be pissed if some of the communities I've spent years building got handed off to someone else without my say.
"You'll own nothing, and you'll like it."
I once made a sub, and no one joined it. I then found out that you can't shut one down. Every. You can abandon it, and reddit will hand it over to the first person who asks for it, but once a sub is open it can never, ever be closed.
You can hand it over though. Or at least, that is how things used to go.
There's a hack for this: remove all mods including yourself, subreddit is now unmoderated, report the unmoderated sub to admins, they nuke it. However the name won't be available again.
Tried that. It didn't take. Even though I tired remove myself, I was put back on somehow.
And the unmoderated sub can be picked back up by anyone who requests it. It's how a lot of old porn subs got turned into subs about cats.
Still true!
My one gift to humanity was r/dndcats and it’ll last as long as reddit does.
😂🤣😂
Star a dndcats Lemmy community hahaha
I just don’t have time to moderate 3 posts in 8 years. Live/Work balance being what it is…
My first post was a great photo of a cat behind a DM screen. So I asked the poster if I could use it as a banner image. She wanted to be made a full admin or no.
So no, and it went downhill from there.
That last message to /u/ModCodeOfDoWhatWeSay is a bit heartbreaking, like there's somehow still a chance that this is all one big silly misunderstanding and if only Reddit knew all the facts, they would absolutely revert that decision.
Reddit doesn’t give a shit they are just happy that they can lay themselves on the back that they got a subreddit to “cooperate” without removing an entire mod team. They just had someone else do it for them :))
Pathetic.
So are you telling me UGMadness was an asshole, by design...?
Let’s be honest, everyone here is on a power trip if we’re using the word “coup”
“Internet drama”, this isn’t a national government being overthrown, this is a bunch of piss babies pissing uncontrollably
They seem to be just their to tongue bath the boots of spez and his IPO. Hell for that matter if they are also a top mod on a few big subs, they might be banking (literally) on the IPO being good. Would there be any reason to see the initial stocks would be open to current mods for all the subs before the open public? (I dont know if that is allowed in these types of matters)
What a massive piece of shit.
Honestly, chances are Reddit didn't even ask them either. They could have been dead in a ditch for years for all Reddit gives a shit, they just need the content public again asap. And I would not put it past them to "access" a dead mod account to achieve those ends
Thanks a lot for sharing. What a shame.
Thanks for providing receipts. Hope we can get the community to come here.
Well welcome to lemmy, sorry that happened. Such a dick move.
How many subreddits has this happened to now? What a clusterfuck. The whole site has gotten so bad.
Keep your mod teams clean boys and girls.
Damn bro, aint that some shit
Great read thanks for sharing, and sorry for it happening.
To be fair based on the quality of this community it's not much of an improvement on that front.
There's more posts that have nothing to do with design and are just people venting than there are actual posts of asshole design here.
Not trying to be rude, but were you going to reopen the sub and be business as usual?
Sounds like they were gonna put it to a community vote
Honestly i get that you are angry/disappointed on a personal level. But its pretty normal reaction from reddits side. You were not cooperative to their request to open up the sub so they searched for someone who would do it.
I dont want to defend them, i allready cleared my account over there but from a business perspective its a normal reaction. If your employees (even if they work without payment) dont follow your instructions you search for someone who does follow them.
And the new mod might be a prick for backstabbing your protest but thats just a opinion. If there are enough users who want to keep using the sub, regardless of reddits shitty behaviour, its ok to reopen it and none of the old mods has a right to hold it "hostage" for their protest.
If your employees (even if they work without payment) dont follow your instructions you search for someone who does follow them.
If they work without payment, they're not your employees. And reddit isn't a registered charity either.
It is their site so they can technically do what they want, but it makes them assholes and is not "ok" as you put it.
Thats your opinion…as long as the company pays the servers its their right to manage them as they want. And its the right of everyone of their customers to leave the platform if they dont like it (thats what i did).
Maybe volunteer would have been a better word than employee but that doesnt change the essential part that its reddit whos paying the bills for the servers and the technical staff so in the end they have the last word.
But thx for replying instead of just stupid downvoting.
It's a privately owned site, they can do whatever the fuck they want. Power tripping mods have been a problem this whole time anyway. I'm glad reddit is dying and i'm glad the mods are too.
They took a principled stance it's no surprise they wouldn't break it without good reason.
And they did redirect people to Lemmy as best they could. I'm actually shocked reddit let them send those DMs with the Lemmy community in it.
You're the same group of mods who all teamed up and went dark to silence subreddits you disagreed with.
You also regularly remove posts that have thousands of upvotes because of vague rules like
"No low effort content"
"no recent reposts over 6 months"
"all posts must abide by Hanlon's Razor."
Locking threads because you didn't like the jokes in them
Welcome to lemmy, but I hope you don't bring this kind of powermodding into the fediverse. It's a growing place, so it doesn't need such a high level of moderation. Also users have a lot of power over the mods. They can see every action you make and make their own community with the same name and rules, but on a more open instance.
I didn't think a lot of arseholes came over from Reddit however you've proven me wrong.
hi, this was entertaining to read really happy to see loud disobedient mods being replaced and removed you have no sympathy from me. when it comes to reddit, decide for yourself if you want to continue using it or not. don't hold the community hostage. you don't own it. grow up
Oh sorry I guess you own it then right? Poor baby lost his community so sad. You literally only think as far as "I don't like it so it's bad". Besides the fact the post shows they were still giving people access to the community the whole fucking time you ass-clown.
I know for a fact you read the first part of this and said "I know exactly what this is about" and show down to the comment section to post a bunch of bullshit.
So why do you think you are owed reddit communities again?
The entire point of a protest is to cause inconvenience and annoyance. It’s how you get people to pay attention. Otherwise you’re just the crazy man yelling at clouds.
@lemmy.world
This is a community for designs specifically crafted to make the experience worse for the user. This can be due to greed, apathy, laziness or just downright scumbaggery.
go to feed...
@lemmy.world
This is a community for designs specifically crafted to make the experience worse for the user. This can be due to greed, apathy, laziness or just downright scumbaggery.
go to feed...
This is gonna happen to every subreddit eventually. What remains to be seen is how long things last before subreddits start imploding.
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