The title is from this video, although that one is very short.
I'm glad I've given up on Reddit after the blackout, this proposal to vote out moderators will only encourage raiding, as only the people who pay attention to the votes will decide who stays on. And let's not forget that one of the cornerstones if Reddit has always been that you can make your own sub.
It's amazing that they have had years of people complaining about mods and it's always been "if you don't like the moderation policy of a community, you can find one that better suits your tastes" but when it impacts them suddenly there is a need for a policy change and democracy.
I see he also mentions revenue sharing and running subreddits as a business.
Users being paid for the content they create sounds nice conceptually, but I would fully expect whatever implementation Reddit comes up with to be a disaster. Once money is involved on large platforms you see every crypto / nft / hustle-culture bro in a twenty mile radius show up trying to make a quick buck off of their latest scam, and a general appeal to whatever is the lowest common denominator that can be easily pumped out.
I'm fully expecting that to either be a disaster, or more likely to not even happen in the first place given that a lot of CEO interview talk is hot air.
Monetization is cool until one remembers this is never a meritocracy and the money will go to the people with the best business plan, not the best content
If someone from r/dataisbeautiful is on here, could you make a graph of the subs and their subscriber numbers which took part in the blackout? We could start some useful deduction from that.
I've not been keeping up with Reddit, bit what is the general mood from users?
I remember seeing some threads announcing blackouts getting tons of comments saying that it won't help and the blackout should be longer. Not to mention the movement of people wanting to torch their comments.
Is there any truth to them saying that this is only a minority of angry power tripping mods? Like, this seems a very odd move for Reddit to make unless they were super out of touch.
The majority of users don't even know about 3rd party apps and probably are just inconvenienced that their subs are private.
Reddit management also wants to make it seem like it's "a minority of angry power tripping mods" so they can shift the blame and make the protest lose credibility
Apparently Reddit has been restoring deleted comments, since they technically own them. Not sure if that's true though; just saw it mentioned somewhere today.
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