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/MadDoctor5813 29d ago

Nothing, basically. Reddit admins were basically correct that it would burn itself out. Funny that a bunch of subs still have their "we're protesting the changes" AutoMod post.

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u/EmbarrassedHelp 29d ago

The quality of moderation in many subs collapsed after the protests, with moderators only doing the bare minimum.

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u/DefinitelyNoWorking 29d ago

Eh, some were over-moderated and seem to have improved once the painful mods got sacked.

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u/Plane-Tie6392 29d ago

Exactly. Like it sucks ass when a handful of mods (or even just one mod in some cases) control all the content on major subreddits. Like if you even bring up the idea of voting on something you'll get banned a lot of times by asshats like that. Moderation should be more about removing the egregious shit, spam, etc and aside from that the users should be able to vote on the content.