Opinion: anyone who takes over a sub reddit because original mods closed it in protest, should face community outrage
We should not let people take advantage of the situation to back stab strikers. We should discourage this behavior, and show anyone who does this that it will not be taken kindly.
If this happens to any sub reddit you know, comment it here so we can be aware of it.
From my perspective, I've basically left Reddit. Hypothetically, I 100% agree with you, but from a practical standpoint, I don't really care what happens over there.
Honestly just let Reddit cannibilize itself and stabilise into whatever it wants to become. Getting angry because a few hundred million people have a hundred million opinions and takes is a fool's errand.
Why don't you just focus on enjoying Lemmy and finding a new way to integrate Reddit into your life (or out of it).
You're going to see the pendulum swing back in the other direction. People who remain on reddit will be all in favor of reopening, and they'll start pushing an anti-mod circlejerk. Even users who had energy for two days worth of protest will get bored and decide they want everything back. People will blame the protest for being annoying, failing to understand that protest can't be effective if it doesn't agitate.
Eh, whoever takes up that offer is going to learn in short order why the protest is happening in the first place. As will the rest of the community once the content quality drops into the gutter because the would-be replacement mods can't keep up with getting rid of the garbage. You try moderating a subreddit of any significant size with gimped moderation tools. If anything, this would accelerate Reddit's fall into irrelevance as users start looking elsewhere for a place that isn't overrun by spambots of various flavors.
Honestly, leave them, those who are happy to be called worthless, deserve to stay on Reddit, it’s not like the CEO has been silently insulting them, he’s literally taking a press tour telling everyone who will listen just how little he thinks if he’s users.
Whomever stays after that has absolutely no self worth and sees their entire life’s value in Reddit.
Don’t let their meaningless existence have any impact on your life, all you would be doing is encoring them, you’d be giving them the attention they are soo desperately seeking.
Being a mod is a thankless job a lot of the time. If I had put a significant amount of time into building and participating in a community, only to be replaced by virtual scabs, I'd be rather insulted and seriously consider going elsewhere.
If that happens, a lot of quality people leave the site, content suffers, more people leave, death spiral, you're picked up by somebody at a dirt cheap valuation and they gut you for the nostalgia of what your brand used to mean, an expensive trophy because billionaires have the kind of money to play that petty. Meanwhile, new sites take your place and rinse, repeat, basically the history of the internet.
Perhaps a hyperbolic comparison but you could kinda compare it to the US government forcing out american indians and giving their land for free to white colonists to own.
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