Mildly Infuriating

"we respect the protests, but we will remove everyone that will protest"

the part "decide that don't want to be a mod anymore" is so infuriating and unrespectful. Like they don't know what's goin on...

Fuck em. This is my first post on Lemmy and I'm happy it exists.

Dear person volunteering your time and effort for what you thought was a worthy endeavor. We're trying to commodify your work so we can make a killing so don't fuck it up for us.

Subreddits belong to the community of users...

Spez, read that again. Slower this time.

A few days ago I didn't have a single reason to leave reddit. Yet, with so many reasons now, here I am, and I look forward to lemmy and kbin.

“Reopen this, or else!”

But they’re carefully avoiding to say or else what. My guess is every next step option would cost them resources at the scale of subreddits they’re reaching out to, so they’re hoping that the empty threat alone will cause some to relent without costing them anything. Right?

Subreddits belong to the community of users…

So you're providing tools to allow democratic control of subreddits, right?

Right?

Alright. They can hire some employees to moderate all of Reddit then.

Reddit: "Subreddits are for the community of reddit users who rely on them."

Community of reddit users: "We think the sub should stay private, and if you force it open, we'll spam sexy John Oliver and porn."

Reddit: "wait no not like that"

This message is mind-blowingly tone deaf.

I love the condescension here - your protest is "taking a break from moderating"

"Hey mod! Go back working for free so we can make money or we'll take action you peasant. You own nothing. Kneel and obey."

Steve Hoffman probably

lol, "subreddits belong to the community of users..." clearly doesn't belong to the users. That's the whole problem

Open it back up and just stop moderating it? Make them mildly infuriated that you're acting your wage.

Moderating is volunteer work. *Spez exhibits unlikeable characteristics. Why volunteer for someone who exhibits unlikeable characteristics?

*Edited from "Spez is a narcissist. Why volunteer for a narcissist?"

Roses are red, violets are blue. Open your sub, or we'll boot you too.

"Subreddits belong to the community of users". Followed by "a path forward to make sure your subreddit is available... which is it?? lol

Im a reddit mod with a sub over 20 million - today they removed our top mod, and then sent us a message saying that 'we requested a re-ordering'. It's total bullshit.

It’s hilarious to me that they are telling subs that they can’t just switch the NSFW button on like that, after they recently made the vape communities go NSFW against their will.

Fuck em. God its nice to be able to say "fuck em" without having to worry about elon or spez getting butthurt and banning my account.

Reddit preaches democracy but suddenly when this same democracy votes to focus on John Oliver content, they threaten to take control.

From "redit is 4 evry1 guise lets be demcratic" to "no, not like that. Fuck it I'm taking this shit "

What a disaster man

They are slowly taking away the platforms of free speech. First they came for the self hosted websites; then they changed the search engine functions; then they came for twitter; now they are at Reddit. Make no mistake this is not just about an IPO. This is about controlling how the public communicates. Discourse is discouraged.

Can’t wait to see Reddit crash and burn

I really hope Reddit dies a slow painful death, it's already mostly bots talking with each other in the main subs. They got too greedy and think they're so large their sh* don't stink. Apologize for the crass, but man I just hope we get more major blunders and fuckups from spez&co

Yeah this type of stuff brought me Lemmy.

Fuck Spez, Lemmy is doing alright. (I like community ran solutions better anyway)

It's interesting how during numerous examples of users trying to fight mod teams over changing direction of the sub, new rules, unwanted new mods etc., and getting admins involved, the answer was ALWAYS the same "Subs are owned by their creators/mods. If you don't like it you can always create a new one".

Suddenly they belong to communieties? Communities that in numerous examples voted by themselves to stay closed? How absolutely full of shit they are...

In short, you will be replaced.

I’m so glad that we have an alternative to Reddit!

What is reddit smoking? This message is so out of touch

LMAO I got this too. Probably just gonna open 'er back up with minimal mod-activity. Let the bots and NSFW problems flow rampant.

"Subreddits belong to the community" is not what reddit says when mods abuse their power

Fuck Reddit

Fuck u/ModCodeOfConduct

I just deleted three of my reddit accounts. I am done. As an artist, I have more work to do on my primary current account. I feel I should delete my art from reddit so that they can not make money from my art and music.

It's ridiculous that they are referring to the protest as a "break". Are they that dilusional?

r/modcodeofconduct is spez. I guarantee it

"subreddits belong to the community of users who come to the for support" good way to justify kicking a mod with a passion for such a community and forcing people to post only the things you want.

Because if you force people to have fun they'll be happy, of course.

Mhm I just got info that a certain Poo the bear wants to talk to you about strongarming communities. But don't worry, his methods definitely work.