Damn, /u/spez is scamming all reddit moderators to work for free.
“We’re open but we’re not going to approve anything”
Quiet modding
Good news for scammers
The new description is also good
This is the way. Reddit cannot expect people to dedicate the same amount of time in volunteer work if they don’t enjoy the platform.
This is the best malicious compliance so far, still reddit could ‘force’ them to remove the approval restriction.
But subreddits like pics doing the john oliver thing are completely missing the point, reddit dont care if they do that, it’s still getting thousands of views and upvotes because its ‘cool and funny’, its such a ‘we did it reddit’ moment. Just stop using reddit, let the subreddits go to shit with no moderation, make a sticky linking to alternatives.
The point of the John Oliver pictures is to make it hard for him to NOT at least spend a segment of his next show talking about it.
I think it will have the opposite effect people want. It will drive traffic to reddit to see the funny pics, it wont suddenly stop the masses using reddit, a garbage experience has to occur for that.
These guys are good. I love it!
14 days? Haha, that’s good. Almost feels like a scam.
r/piracy, r/scams… They’re forcing the best subreddits open!
r/scams was anti-scam, though.
Should rebrand to allow scam guides only.
Why continue to mod it then? Let the place wreck itself with whatever nefarious modder shows up to do the dirty work.
Maybe malicious compliance is more effective than a full strike.
I think this is their way of not modding but not being replaced by other people who would mod as normal. Malicious complicance as @sisyphean said
That’s basically what /interestingasfuck is doing. Anything goes within global rules.
It’s hard to just quit something you’ve nurtured for years.
I was never a mod, but i was an avid reddit user for close to 15 years. It was a sad day when I deleted my accounts, and it wasn’t a decision i made lightly.
I think this is the direction they should all take. Open but “quiet quit” and either do like /r/scams is doing with requiring approval but working on their own timetable, or let the subs devolve into unmoderated bot-a-thon mess.
And I was just banned from r/WatchPeopleDieInside for calling them out on bending over to Reddit admin.
Did you feel like you die inside? Maybe you can post that to /r/WatchPeopleDieInside…oh wait…
I’m not sure if I buy this. /r/videos was the first sub to go dark early and hasn’t been brought back. If the admin were really going in and forcing subs to open you’d think they’d start with the sub that started everything and actually got coverage. Not some random subs.
If I were Reddit, I’d first target subs who aren’t able to fight back well. Then, after I’ve proved that I’m serious and not bluffing, I’ll go after bigger subs. This is why many subs are allowing submissions again. In their sticky posts, they often mention that Reddit isn’t bluffing.
