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    1 year ago

    I can already hear the voices of mods wishing him good luck moderating reddit on his own (in fact, I was certainly able to hear my own saying so before I de-listed myself as a mod).

    I am impressed at how badly they are managing something that was initially merely “not the best idea” and now has become a true shitshow.

    RIP reddit, you may very well survive this, but you’ll never again be “the front page of the Internet”.

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    Okay if you want to talk like that make Reddit a CO-OP or shut up.

    How can this guybhave such a persecution fethish when he litterally holds all the cards.

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    I really wish users, who are the only ones that bring real value to a site like Reddit, could vote out the CEO. I guess we are voting with our feet, but it’s a shame that we have to go through this stupid lather/rinse/repeat cycle with every user contribution site.

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      reddit is the means of production, but all of the value produced comes from the users, who are unremunerated

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    Funny. That is a feature I wanted for a long time. Question is how in the world will it be implemented. Probably going to pull another Elon and only allow Reddit premium members to vote. Kinda shows the blackout is working and he is trying to find a ‘good’ PR way to weasel his way out.

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    Not for nothing, but a key feature of fascism is that you’re “enemy” is both weak and strong at the same time.

    So the blackout is not a big deal AND the mods coordinating the blackout are too powerful…

    ACAB - All CEOs Are Bastards

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      Meh. “Fascism”? That tactic is used in politics all the time against most prominent leaders and groups, no matter where they come from. They’re both inept and totally powerful and Machiavellian.

      It’s the whole thing about “will bear them with humor and ridicule” but also “look at their evil actions”.

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          My point is that I don’t know what’s specifically “fascist” about it if virtually everyone uses it.

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            “Fascist” is an adjective. Like “green.”

            A bad example: l don’t know what’s specifically green about it if virtually all plants look that way.

            Everyone is using a fascist tactic. It doesn’t become a benevolent tactic because everyone uses it. It’s still fascist.

            Edit: here is one of the better known essays on fascism, which might be of more use than my clumsy attempt https://www.openculture.com/2016/11/umberto-eco-makes-a-list-of-the-14-common-features-of-fascism.html. Humans have been rollicking around brutalizing each other since before we climbed down out of the trees, and using fascist tactics long before we had a word for it.

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    Might have been welcome a year ago. But in this case, ‘too powerful’ means ‘nobody should be able to stand up to me on MY website’.

    I’d love to see some kind of voting process for mods or policy be enacted only to have the users vote for even more lockdowns.

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    @AllonzeeLV

    If you’re a politician or a business owner, you are accountable to your constituents. So a politician needs to be elected, and a business owner can be fired by its shareholders

    This comparison is so stupid; is spez gonna send me an ID or something? Will I need to hand Reddit my birth certificate or anything in order to keep using it and sign a contract with them or something? Where is that contract gonna be registered?

    Anyone would be able to look for any place where there is a vote, then join the community, vote whatever they want and then casually walk away. Or you could follow all subreddits or a bunch of them that you want to influence (say any pro-ukrainian ones). Then you’d cast a vote to whoever you’d like and walk away.

    It’s so ridiculous!

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    So what will happen is that mods who enforce unpopular rules in a subreddit, such as “no NSFW”, will get voted out. This can’t possibly go wrong. /s

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      Unless there is some kind of cooldown time (but even then), mods will constantly change…

      Group A votes Mod B off and places Mod A there. Group B doesn’t like that and votes Mod A off and places Mod B (or a similar) back.

      The longer that goes on, the more users (and even Mods) will get annoyed and leave that sub. There will probably the be originalsub, splitsubA, splitsubB. All of these subs will be weaker than the originalsub was before.

      So basically the same what we see in current politics. Instead of finding a solution together, it just creates larger gaps between the members.

      It feels less like democracy but more like temporary dictatorship that oscillates between opinions.

      A better solution would be to have multiple mods with different opinions finding consensus together. But that’s easier said than done…

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    I’ve seen some here openly despair that leaving reddit didn’t do anything.

    Spez, CEO of Reddit and former mod of the r/jailbait subreddit losing his shit very publically for days proves otherwise.

    …And it’s also a reminder that the reddit community we loved has already been destroyed by ownership, anyone returning would be returning to a shadow that disdains its own users and works to disempower them with every update. They’re even undeleting user’s deleted posts. If they can’t respect users enough to be able to delete their own content, why enrich them?

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        Back in the olden days of reddit, mods didn’t need to accept their position. So, it was a troll tactic to promote people to moderator of a controversial sub and then take a screenshot. I have no knowledge of spez’s moderating history, but I imagine this is the most likely scenario.