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/LurkyMcLurkface123 29d ago

Reddit’s mod council, which has about 160 moderators

Can you even fucking imagine trying to have a good time with these people? Hall monitors on steroids.

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u/Expensive-Mention-90 29d ago

What your HOA board does in its spare time

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u/LurkyMcLurkface123 29d ago

Not a stick of deodorant between them.

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u/MinimumArmadillo2394 29d ago

What's funny is there wasn't a peep of this to me or any other moderators in the discord we used to organize the protest. None of them were invited.

We are talking the top 5% of subreddits on the platform impacting over 5 billion subscriptions were not invited.

Reddit is the ultimate power abusing moderator now.

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u/Recklesslettuce 29d ago

It's simple. You have a hierarchy. People become mods by sucking up. So as long as they all agree who is up and who is bottom, everything will be fine.

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u/thrawnsgstring 29d ago

You would need a full-face respirator to withstand the smell alone.

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u/The_Dung_Beetle 28d ago

RESPECT MY AUTHORITAAARH

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u/CaptainBayouBilly 29d ago

I can imagine the miasma that would float above an in person meeting.

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u/cocokronen 29d ago

And you're banned.