i think the ideal course of action is to continue the blackout indifinitely. As spez said, the impact isnt that significant. 2-3 days blackout in a year is nothing. But personally, the best course of action is for the mods to agree and abandon reddit entirely and start/joined a new platform. Reddit for me is a lost cause. while Spez is the head of reddit, nothing will change.
I saw someone wearing Rammstein "swag" while I was shopping. I mean, who cares? Reddit's employees don't have to get shamed for their asshole employer.
That's clearly just a statement put out to make the userbase look like they're unhinged and a blatant attempt to garner some sympathy.
Employees shouldn't be wearing reddit 'swag' outside because it's just incredibly tragic. Corporate branded clothing is for wearing when you're gardening, mucking out the chickens etc.
It has the same energy as when a show or movie tanks and the producers and actors blame it on “racism” and claim they received death threats. It’s to redirect the discussion and garner false sympathy for the sociopathic global corporate. Unfortunately it keeps working.
He has data to back his claim. This isnt the first time reddit had experience backlash from its users and many times, people just simply move on. Casual users will continue to browse reddit thru their official app and loudest voices are usually the minority. Unless the mods continue to close their respective subreddit or/and move to other platform, I don’t see reddit going down any time soon.
I've been following this since last week and I havent seen, not once, people advocating violence or harassement towards reddit devs and employees nor towards subs, mods, and users who have chosen not to be part of the protest. In fact, I saw the oposite, people asking others to be civil and reminding them that taking such course of action wont only be futile but counterproductive.
This seems like another lousy attempt from spez to mischaracterize/misrepresent those who are "unhappy" about the changes.
I could be wrong tho, reddit was a big place.
I hadn't seen anything like this either. I've only seen civil disobedience, but not violence. The groups most alienated this time are those who are unlikely to resort to such threats I think.
There are a lot of crazy people all over the internet who take anonymity as an invitation to make people feel unsafe, so I don't doubt the company has gotten some insane messages. But despite that, I agree; it's utterly delusional to think that Reddit staff would be targeted for physical violence due to some shady API changes that came from up top... and I'd think that the effect sending such a memo would have is net negative, not positive, for office morale. Anecdotally, if my boss told me that the decisions they've made put me at risk for an attack (digitally/physically/emotionally or otherwise), why would I show back up to work?
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