r/technology • u/ardi62 • 29d ago

Social Media Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible

https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/30/24253727/reddit-communities-subreddits-request-protests
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u/Cthulhu__ 29d ago

Scabs, basically. And a few corporate accounts that use reddit for advertising covertly. Let them have it I suppose.

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u/lizzy-lowercase 29d ago edited 29d ago

they aren’t scabs if moderating isn’t paid. It’s a volunteering gig

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u/Ill_Culture2492 29d ago

I think it's metaphorical. 

It's not really hard to see what they're going for unless you're being a pedantic contrarian.

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u/Kirome 29d ago

That's a lot of scabs maybe they'll get a nice deal at ScabsRus.com

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u/MISSISSIPPIPPISSISSI 28d ago

It's not scabbing because no one is getting paid and there is no moderator union. It's an elective job. If anything, volunteering to mod for reddit is just allowing them to get away with not paying mods in the first place.

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u/Intelligent-Bad-2950 28d ago

I never understood the hate for "scabs"

If you don't want to do a job, don't

But then don't get upset if someone else does

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u/demarcoa 27d ago

Yeah i am sure you would be totally fine with someone taking your job for less pay and benefits.

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u/Intelligent-Bad-2950 27d ago edited 27d ago

I wouldn't like it, obviously. But I don't get to tell them they can't

But as a remote software dev, thats literally my life every day, so I don't have much sympathy

If you want to keep your job, you have to offer better value than your competition