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Reddit Blackout was just mods choosing to be a personal army for app developer (self.unpopularopinion)

submitted 6 months ago by QuantumSpecter to c/unpopularopinion

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In my opinion, the Reddit Blackout was essentially moderators acting as a personal army for app developer.

Even goes the ancient rules of redditquitte

Ask people to Troll others on Reddit, in real life, or on other blogs/sites. We aren't your personal army.

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[–] PorradaVFR 28 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I was a 14-year Redditor that contributed both to them and app platforms. Nuked my account on principle because of how they decided to treat the community that built them. Nobody asked me to, I acted on my own discretion because it was (in my view) the right thing to do. Same reason I ditched Twitter.

The mods were acting on the same basis - they had supported a platform that made decisions they opposed. It wasn't in service of anything other than doing the right thing.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago (1 children)

This is the first unpopular opinion I’ve seen that’s truly an unpopular one. Through this lens, I’ve been a personal army for Victoria, people that think Alexis Ohanian is an idiot, people that think transparency to unpaid moderators is important, and people that think API pricing matters. I didn’t realize I was such a troll.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

If it was an app developer who precipitated it, so what? It had to be someone. That does not invalidate the choice of everyone else who participated in it. If you're going to hold an unpopular opinion, it should be a better one.

[–] owenfromcanada 10 points 6 months ago

There's a difference between rallying others to troll someone, and shutting down a subreddit you own. The mods weren't forcing anyone to "participate", they simply stopped providing a free service.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Upvote for being an unpopular opinion.

But a very firm what-the-fuck-ever for it being a dumb take on things.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Reddit never offered a chance for apps to pay; this became very clear during negotiations.

Mods left because a lot of moderator tools developed by moderators requires API access and Reddit was very slow to develop acceptable internal tools. At that point, a lot of mods got frustrated and left.

[–] QuantumSpecter -3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

The vast majority of mods, including the organisers of blackout, are still using Reddit.

here is list of organisers of blackout taken from Moderator Coordination subreddit.

Femilip - active
Buckrowdy - active
TheSebtacular - inactive
LustyLizardLady - active
demmian - active
LunarOlympian - inactive
esoterix_luke - active
SpicyThunder335 - active
YourResidentFeral - active

So 77% are still active.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

You might be right, but I moderated three subs and haven't been back since June (or whenever it was they killed my app)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

I didn't say all mods.