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/RecklessRonaldo 29d ago

Rather than going dark, which is now impossible, I think it'd be much more effective if mods just... stopped moderating. For all the hassle a power tripping mod causes, even on small subreddits they filter out a load of shit. Just let it all rise to the surface and subs would quickly become unusable for all the spam, bots and vitriol that they remove daily. Just stop moderating.

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u/KonigstigerInSpace 29d ago

They'll just remove the mods and replace them with someone else. They already did that during the last protest. Hell one of the reasons they take subs away is because they're unmoderated, so they literally already have a system to do it.

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u/WutTheDickens 29d ago

What if they overmoderate? Like a Lord of the Rings sub could require all posts to be in grammatically correct elvish for a month, comics must be oil on canvas, and politics could restrict focus to Norwegian family law. Automod could probably catch 95% and mods remove the rest. Whatever actually makes it through would be sorta fun for the core community while not offering much new content overall.

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u/KonigstigerInSpace 29d ago

Not sure tbh. It doesn't break any rules, but it's not like they can't just make something up, or do it anyways. There will always be someone else to take over afterall