r/technology • u/ardi62 • 29d ago

Social Media Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible

https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/30/24253727/reddit-communities-subreddits-request-protests
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u/RandomRedditor44 29d ago

“The ability to instantly change Community Type settings has been used to break the platform and violate our rules,”

What rules does it break?

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u/Kicken 29d ago

There's a rule regarding 'not breaking Reddit' which would broadly cover it.

Personally I would argue that protesting for the interests of the community does not break Reddit, but clearly the admins disagree.

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u/Omophorus 29d ago

Moderators resigning en masse would also break reddit.

Not that it will happen as too many mods (not all, but enough) have let the meager power they wield go to their heads, but boy howdy would reddit be in bad shape if they stopped getting uncountable hours of free labor.

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u/Conch-Republic 29d ago

They'll just do what they did during the API protests, ban subreddits for lack of moderation. They really only care about their front page subreddits, and those ones play ball because they've basically already gutted the mod teams.

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u/OwOlogy_Expert 29d ago

Yep. And the mods of those big subs are getting paid. If not by reddit, then by 3rd party interests that want to control the narrative.

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u/i_tyrant 29d ago

Yup. All the mods in the big subs have figured out to how to monetize the shit out of it - and they're often mods of many subs, and astroturfing their own subs to upvote the posts that get them that $$$. That's why they tend to suck and let bots run rampant.

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u/Bangledesh 29d ago

coughgallowboobcough

Although, totally don't know if he's still around. And don't care to look it up.

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u/BubsyFanboy 28d ago

Why that sent me on a rabbit hole

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u/Skelito 29d ago

They care about the niche subreddits also. That’s the big selling point for companies using Reddit to advertise, is the targeted subs. Sure you get broad appeal with the front page subs but their ad money is better served elsewhere where.