Comment by sandoze

2 years ago

There were communities on Reddit that did a poll in Discord on whether or not they should go private. Given the where and who the audience was, what voices do you think were ‘overwhelming’ representative?

In the end it was a way for many moderators to hijack a community and transfer it to their next pet social space (Discord seems to be the current favorite).

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Applejinx  2 years ago

The ones I was in, asked what to do ON reddit, and I personally saw subreddits vote to go private.

It would depend on the subreddit. r/stoicism (aka r/bro-icism ;) ) seemed very unimpressed and self-involved, and didn't see how the concept of 'virtue' entered into it. r/datingoverfifty overwhelmingly sided with its mods, in part because that subreddit was so actively moderated that women over fifty could post there without getting harassed, and scam artists were quickly run off by the mods. As such, that subreddit had experienced moderation as a positive force and trusted its mods' opinions, and its mods were repeatedly in touch with the subreddit explaining what they wanted to do and why, and asking whether they had user support.

Looks like we saw different experiences, is all I'll say.

  • isanjay  2 years ago

    > The ones I was in, asked what to do ON reddit, and I personally saw subreddits vote to go private.

    This has been my experience too.

why_zoia_fan  2 years ago

I don't understand what you have to gain from lying about this interaction elsewhere. Why is the truth so impossible for you to bear? The community repeatedly asked (and STILL is asking) in Discord and Reddit for capable moderators to take over. No one has stepped up. It's fine. That's how communities work. You alone do not get to dictate what a group does. I wish you could communicate what your real deal is because it's not the "hijacking" of a community (which isn't even yours???). Perhaps stop trying to make this all about you. How sad.