Main points: He plans to make moderators popularly elected to more easily vote them out.
Hopes the next frontier will be subreddits as businesses.
He does not want Reddit employees to take on the work. Moderator hours were valued at 3.2 million last year, 3% of reddit’s revenue.
popular elections in an ecosystem 1/4 bots, in which the admins hold ultimate unilateral authority.
Spez is such a nice guy, protecting the innocent users from the greedy elites who control the site. /s
1/4 bots, 1/4 advertising, 1/4 Onlyfans “entrepreneurs” and 1/4 users. What could possibly go wrong?
1/4 bots, 1/4 paid advertising, 1/4 Onlyfans “entrepreneurs” and 1/4 users. What could go wrong?
come work for free
No thanks
builds an entire self-hosted instance of an open source, federated social media network…
So you do all that work for nothing just to be able to be voted out? 😂
He plans to make moderators popularly elected to more easily vote them out.
I totally second this idea. The last time we tried to get the internet to seriously decide on something we got Boaty McBoatface.
Hopes the next frontier will be subreddits as businesses.
Even better. All posts in these subs can be advertisements, perfect.
He does not want Reddit employees to take on the work. Moderator hours were valued at 3.2 million last year, 3% of reddit’s revenue.
Yeah, don’t even spend 3% of revenues as a cost of doing business. The soon-to-be-community-elected mods will do it for free. Super.
The last time we tried to get the internet to seriously decide on something we got Boaty McBoatface.
And lo, the Internet looked down upon it’s handiwork, and verily, t’was awesome.
All posts in these (business) subs can be advertisements, perfect.
And nobody will ever go there. And, two years down the track, u/spaz will hoik up the pricing or cut them off entirely because they’re making money off of a non-profitable Reddit. “We want to work with the business subs but they’re not interested in talking to us and have all thrown their toys out of the pram and shut down”.
Imo in 2 years down the track reddit will be scrubed of nsfw, and then sold to someone else who will maybe try to integrate it with facebook/other social medias to try and get new users
Doesn’t matter what changes he makes I’m never going back to that site that it’s filled with karma farmers, bots and onlyfans spamers
Honestly fuck reddit. I was so tired of it, but there was nowhere else to go. At least I can develope a more healthy relationship with social media here
Yea I’m actually glad there’s an exodus of people who care. The ones who don’t, I don’t care about them either.
Well this will bring me back to reddit… So I can vote out the mods who want to reopen the sub.
That’s a good reason
I was logging into Reddit to delete my posts (Which Chrome removed the Nuke Reddit History extension, thanks I guess) and on the front page was just gross homophobic memes. Yeah, I don’t think I’ll ever going back.
When the subreddits went private I visited reddit three times, then a couple of times the next day, then once the following day. I haven’t visited today and honestly I’m not missing it too much. If I get the urge to visit I just come here and it acts as my reddit nicotine patch.
Yeah I’ve been the same, and when I’ve browsed the comments there is so much aggro. Makes me wonder if it’s always been like that and I was just blind to it.
Overall, the experience here is 1000 times better than Reddit
Oh you want to have popular elections for mods? Do it, see what happens. Poll crashing is a fucking sport.
Oh yeah, and:
“If you’re a politician or a business owner, you are accountable to your constituents. So a politician needs to be elected, and a business owner can be fired by its shareholders,” he said.
CEO of a company doesn’t even understand business ownership. Business owners cannot be fired. They can be bought out. Shareholders are owners. C-level employees are almost universally also owners. Nobody can just “take away” ownership; it has to be bought, and an owner of property is the person who gets to decide whether to sell it or not. What an idiot.
No way we’re gonna see reddit elections and campaigns this is hilarious
Ok, reading the article, removing mods through voting doesnt sound too bad when you consider that turtle-something mod, who moderates way too many servers and removes/bans every post/user talking shit about them. Finally we can get power hungry mods out the fucking door.
Too bad they only decided to work on it to kick those mods keeping the blackout alive. Like why do they want to fight their userbase so badly
Right? How does he not see that this is a terrible idea.
Probably because he has back end control to make sure elections give him what he wants with the veneer of popular support.
The bigger, sadder problem is that it would actually work. There’s never been a more divided time in the world than now. You’d think everyone would see how disgraceful Reddit’s actions have been and want nothing to do with the platform anymore, but realistically not everyone cares. It’s already happening where you can simply tell mods that they aren’t being paid for their time and instead of them thinking logically, they go ahead and ban you to silence you.
It’s not like they don’t know it’s not paid, if it’s a fun hobby people choose to support the communities they love they’d spend the time anyway. But with every move to make Reddit more corporate it makes the sites reliance on volunteers more exploitative.
Eh. a large majority of subreddits are moderated by just a few people as top mods. They’re not modding out of the goodness of their hearts. They’re modding because they’re being paid to. (but not by reddit. It gives them a shit load of influence over what’s on their subs, and companies find that… useful.)
Isn’t that against the rules if it was proven? Or is it only if the mods post things that financially benefit them?
Whose rules? The company makes the rules, they can change them for whatever reason or no reason at all.
I meant reddits current rules, not what they might become.
I thought it was against the rules for mods to profit from their subs. If the mods of /r/pics started posting McDonalds pictures because McDonalds paid them reddit wouldn’t like that at the moment.
Not saying it isn’t happening either, you’d need proof to do anything though.
tone deaf much?
While undeniably shitty, how amazing would it be if after instituting popular voting on mods more subreddits voted to go private? Not likely but it is tempting
In r/trackers we had a vote to close the sub or remain open. 1st option won, but one mod overrule it so it stayed open lol
I feel one of the reasons many subs have not gone indefinitely dark is that the mods too are attached to their communities, and probably rightfully so. If they are going to get booted out, which may easily happen when you leave it up to the Reddit horde to decide, then they might just decide to shut down the sub.
I made a hard decision to leave my sub two years ago; I couldn’t keep up with the ever-backing up mod queue, and I was going through a divorce (good thing, I promise), and work was picking up steam. I had adopted it from /r/redditrequest several years ago because it was a fun novelty sub with like 8 posts that had clearly been dead for a couple years, with [deleted] as the creator. I revived it, and now it’s a nearly 1.2M user shitposting sub. It’s beautiful. It’s my baby and all growed up… and it’s name is /r/FUCKYOUINPARTICULAR.
Miss that place. They even tried to participate in the blackout.
Is the CEO going to be popularly elected too?
Lol this is gonna be awful
He referred to the mods as landed gentry, which is such a gross and lazy way to try to get people on his side. It has a major flaw too: mods are unpaid, the whole idea behind gentry is that they make money from owning their land.
Let me help you out spez, you piece of shit, if you want to criticize the millions of dollars of unpaid work that mods do for their communities try comparing them to an HOA committee, that at least has a kernel of truth.
It’s even more hilarious when the label is much more accurately applied to capital owners such as himself; they are the ones actually making money off of other people’s labour via their ownership (of a company rather than land).
Spez is a fucking dick.
They’re just looking for admin-friendly volunteers to cross the picket line and kick out protesting mods. It’s unsurprising that it’s come to this, and has already started in various reddit’s (such as /r/AdviceAnimals, which still exists, apparently).
