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several subreddits are voting on the future of the community, but are currently losing to returning to normal
(lemmy.world)
r/pics, gifs, among others are voting on whether to return to normal operation. As lots of people supporting the black out aren't using Reddit at the moment the voting is currently going in favour of returning to normal
I like this idea, and went back to upvote it. Steve's narrative so far has been to deride the protesting moderators as "not wanting to moderate". This makes it clear that the mods want to moderate, but Steve is taking away the tools they need. Their alternative to opening is even more strict moderation, after all.
Interesting that they made it a upvote poll and not a Reddit poll. Are they throwing a bone to those of us still using third-party apps until they die? Or is it possible the mods have some tools to detect upvote manipulation that they wouldn't have if it were a poll?
Look at what r/science did also. They announced they would open next week, but directly tied their opening with the mod tool Improvement announcement that was recently announced, and indicated that they would close up again if Reddit doesn't deliver on schedule.
That's a good point, I don't think Most 3 party apps show polls, sync definitely doesn't.
Good to know about r/science, some others are taking a similar stance. r/formula1 are opening (with restricted access) for this weekend as there is a race and also to show good faith that they're prepared to meet the admins half way. Then they plan to reassess after a meeting they're having with the admins Monday.
I would love for this idea to spread. I want reddit to be exclusively a place filled with John Oliver content.
Tying their opening to commitments made to them is smart.