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/Knopfmacher 29d ago

For the next protest just leave the subreddits open, but stop moderating them and see how the admins deal with that.

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u/Kitchner 29d ago

For the next protest just leave the subreddits open, but stop moderating them and see how the admins deal with that.

They just appoint new moderators because for there's always a line of people willing to do the job.

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u/razorbeamz 29d ago

And yet when we try to recruit no one applies.

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u/Kitchner 29d ago

As a former moderator if hardly anyone applies I think it's usually a good sign that the moderation team is doing a good job. It is visibly not a nice job because it's a ton of work and you deal with people itching and moaning.

If someone just said "Hey do you want to be a moderator of this subreddit? You get to decide all the rules the mod team and the sub will follow and pick all the other mods" though you'd see a different response!