The correct response is scorched earth, time to delete the protesting subreddits. the CEO has zero respect for those folks who built those community’s, might as well help remove the actual value of reddit.
this post was submitted on 16 Jun 2023
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Deleting the subreddits would be an easily reversible action for admins. Users will need to edit over comments to actually make a change that wouldn’t easily be reverted. Idk, maybe it could be. It would have to be a lot more users too.
I'm positive they made a backup before announcing the change. We would have to edit the comments to something not easily detected like random words.
They can restore comments from backups. If you're deleting posts, it's almost better to come up with or find some kind of post scrambler so they can't do a basic search and restore.
I've been considering what to do with my old Reddit account. I haven't deleted it yet because I feel like it could still be of some use (and I kind of want to go through there and save some memes I've posted and stuff). I have thousands of comments/posts on there. It would be incredibly time consuming to edit every single one. Is it worth it to take the time to actually do that?
I really hate the idea of that dickhead profiting off of content I created and I'd like to take a more proactive approach to this whole thing. Plus, I'm curious as to what the impact/reaction would be - if any.
There are several tools what may help you archive then overwrite your content. Check them out and let us know what you decide to do. The content is what makes Reddit special. If that content is not only reduced but available in a better format over here… it’s a win for everybody but the IPO bagholders
"There are several tools what may help you archive then overwrite your content."
You'll have to do it multiple times as some subs come back from private. I've noticed that on my accounts.
Yeah, that's exactly what reddit needed. For a bunch of angry mob trolls who don't want to respect community guidelines to go ahead and vote out mods enforcing said guidelines. Reddit gonna be straight up 4chan in less than a year.
Huffman has said Reddit is not profitable and in Thursday’s interview he said that Reddit’s annual revenue is less than $1 billion. Meta, owner of Instagram and Facebook reported revenue last year of $116.6 billion.
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Wow, one of the rules of r/redditrequest is not bring drama, flaming or accusations, so now they're completely going over their own rules bringing all of that because some users might not like how some mods run the sub.
I don't think he understands trolls and spammers are the most crying babies when you take down their posts and tell mods are running a dictatorship, haha.
This will mean fetish prone subs are going to be taken over by OF spammers, some clothes subs come to mind.
what I thought about kind of became true: everything he does right now is to make more profits, to work towards the IPO.
What he doesn't realize is that's not how this community works. It's in many ways crowdsourcing content and tools from the community, and the community won't be crowdsourcing just for him to make a profit. And the same goes for mods; they wanna moderate communities they are proud of on a platform that gives them freedom. If they get too much pressure from admins or the CEO and don't like the direction the platform is going in anymore, they WILL leave.
he doesn't realize what he's doing.
Let's get him on an AMA to discuss further. Oh, wait...
That AMA was such a bullshit fail. But it was entertaining.
Lmao I called it earlier today. He's more worried about this than I thought though because this is really soon. Forcibly reopening subs is a powerful move from Reddit's end, but it's the nuclear option. It takes any perceived power away from protesting mods, and will risk Reddit paying for moderation in the future. He's trying to scare the strike... it means it's working.
After debating for a few days and watching u/spez spiral even further out of reality. I nuked my account. All comments and posts edited to gibberish and then deleted followed by my account.
Spez is a fucking dick.