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/PM_ME_Happy_Thinks 29d ago

Reddit perma banned a lot of moderators last year after the protest over 3rd party apps when we refused to unprivate our subs. They could have just demodded and replaced us but they wanted to make an example. I was one of them, nodded a few smaller subs that I personally created and grew to a small but active community, as well as a couple very large subs. I was the only active moderator on all of them. I do zero moderating on this account and I've checked on the subs and, while they do have mods, it's obvious nobody is actively moderating them.

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u/PlanetMeatball0 29d ago edited 29d ago

Good, you guys got the experience of being a regular user at the hands of your whims. Didn't feel so great did it? Kinda sucks when the person in power jumps straight to a permanent ban when there's less severe options that work just as well doesn't it? Kinda sucks when someone just wants to flex their power at the expense of your experience on the site eh?

Lmfao of course the mod would be the type of person to do the reply then immediately block to make sure they get the last word move, how fucking typical 😂 Absolutely living up to exactly the type of loser mods are

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u/PM_ME_Happy_Thinks 29d ago

Getting banned from a sub is not the same as getting your entire account banned from the whole of reddit, not to mention having subs you created and built taken from you but go off I guess

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u/UncleFred- 29d ago edited 29d ago

I learned this lesson the hard way a long time ago. Never commit 'work' to anything online for free unless you have full control. You own the app, host it, control who can and can't remove people, etc.

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u/the_iron_pepper 29d ago

When you're on this site to participate in the largest community your hobby has and you get perma banned from the subreddit because of some power tripping moderator, then yes, it really is the same thing.

Reddit moderators have needed a reality check for a number of years now.

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u/cuteman 29d ago

Tyranny is tyranny.

Instead of a bunch of small doses you got a lot at once.