I feel as if this is the first real sign that this shit has had an impact. Minecraft isn't a small community by any means, and them ditching the huge subreddit over this is shocking.
It makes sense from a perspective that their jobs just got a lot harder, they don't have any of the tools they used to, they are being threaten with termination if they don't volunteer their free time.
They’re doing the right thing in this case for sure.
Not having one of your official update/news mediums being fundamentally changed in how you and your customers interact with each other by a hostile third party is a good thing.
Shoving things onto twitter/discord/facebook wouldn’t be a good alternative either.
Bravo x 1000, I say! I was truly disappointed that the mods at sub Reddit for GW2 did not do the same; after initially going on blackout for a few days, they are now back to business as usual.
Especially when they got so much hate from it. Logged in once i heard it was back up and getting those comments as a mod i would have just left and let it die tbh.
I am happy here but i wish more people would leave. As with twitter i will miss the artposts the most...
But they quit without replacement? feedback.minecraft.net is not a replacement for a community
Seems more like a cost cutting measure (mods are paid by microsoft) than a protest. Some manager saw the opportunity to blame an unpopular decision to someone else?
There have been several this month and I, too, expect more to follow. Communication with stakeholders is fairly critical, so it doesn't make much sense to rely on the benevolence of third parties to maintain it.
I really hope that's the case. Forums are the peak of communication through internet, social media and discord will be always be inferior means of communication.
Agreed, you hear a few months back where Riot deleted their forums in lieu of Discord? Ridiculous, and it essentially means that any content there is lost forever unless someone reposts it.
I really don’t think it’s a protest on the part of Minecraft anyway; what they were really saying is that because subs were no longer enforcing rules and content moderation wasn’t happening anymore (or was being actively discouraged) and porn among other things was becoming more prevalent on the site, they didn’t feel comfortable having an official affiliation with Reddit, even if it was only with one sub.
The protest worked in a way, but I wouldn’t give Microsoft credit for actually backing the protests.
I give them tons of credit for this! With Twitter becoming, in my opinion, basically a Nazi echo chamber, the corporate brands and public personalities staying on the platform basically lends it legitimacy. It says "it's normal to hang out in public places where hate groups thrive and are encouraged". Microsoft making this choice is sending a public message that Reddit's conduct is making the place unsafe - that it's not perfectly normal to hang out in the subreddit that are lacking moderation.
It's not necessarily a perfect comparison because I think Twitter's leadership is directly doing things to promote harmful and hateful content, whereas reddit I think is just hurting it's relationship with its own community, but the throughline is the lack of moderation making the content more extreme.
Exactly. He could not care any less about any of this. He's just the faceman right now taking all the heat on purpose for that sweet sweet ipo cash out. Money is all that matters at this point. He's burning the entire company down to the ground just to cash out and disappear from public life.
And it’s not like this is some small indie game anymore… If Mojang thinks it’s right to back out with the best selling game of all time, why won’t other devs back out of Reddit?
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