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Reddit Ramps Up Its Threats To Protesting Mods, As Ad Buyers Leave (www.techdirt.com)
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The landed gentry are only in charge until the king comes to town and chops off a few heads. At least that seems to be the case at Reddit, where CEO Steve Huffman pretended his complaints about current moderators — who were protesting his decision to effectively cut off API access to tons of useful…

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[–] maple@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

At the end of the day, Reddit is just a message board. The absolute hubris to think that one could seriously go public with a message board website... It's baffling.

Honestly, Reddit missed the ship to IPO. They should have done it a decade ago if at all.

Without mods, Reddit will become overrun with bots, rendering the precious data Reddit so desparately tries to monetize practically useless.

[–] Tandybaum@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I mod a small/mid size sub that is still blacked out. Should I leave it private or just let it get overrun with spam?

[–] Olgratin_Magmatoe@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

You don't owe reddit anything.

[–] Chonk@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Shift the community to lemmy and write a pinned post on reddit about the change.

Request members to delete their reddit post.

[–] CaptPretentious@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

That would have been a lot easier before the API change. Not sure if that's an easy task anymore (pegging old content)

[–] Martin_AAurelius@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sell promoted posts directly, admins have made it abundantly clear they're in it for money over community, get your cheddar too.

[–] KairuByte@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I’m a mod over on r/NoahGetTheBoat and I haven’t even opened reddit more than a couple times since Apollo died.