Comment by sandoze
2 years ago
I hate to say it. From a PR move this is a well crafted email. I can support and relate to the argument. If the moderators are so crucial to the subreddit that they’re in charge of, their loss (and possible movement to another platform) will reflect that as community members also move on. That’s the real protest. Instead closing subs felt a lot like burning down your own house.
It's a basic "divide et impera" - the first thing you do to break a strike is trying to delegitimize the leadership's mandate.
Sure, the PR of people who never browsed reddit
If you read a bit deeper with the context of how reddit has operated:
>Subreddits belong to the community of users who come to them for support and conversation.
No, subreddits always belonged to mods, and users complaining about power modding has fallen on deaf ears.They never cared about moderator antics outside of a few specific instances across 15 years.
>Moderators are stewards of these spaces and in a position of trust.
This makes it sound like moderators are voted in, or hired. No, it's literally a factor of who has been a moderator the longest. Without admin intervention or the user deleting their account, the head mod of r/pics would be some 16YO inactive account. If they came back they can boot off everyone. Sure Admins would fix it, but why does a mod have that power if they are merely "stewards"?
their tools don't reflect their words.
>Redditors rely on these spaces for information, support, entertainment, and connection.
Yes, and taking away 3rd party apps definitely definitely helps that reliance. Making the mobile website an unusable ad to the app helps that reliance. I'm sure one day old reddit will be gone and RES will be non-functional and they will send a similar message.
>Our goal here is to ensure that existing mod teams establish a path forward to make sure your subreddit is available for the community that has made its home here.
And that comes to today's topic: is some small subreddit really worth threatening? I've heard other subs as small as 20 subs getting this message. There is no real "community", and I'm guessing such a move will simply make a small sub unmoderated, and then banned as part of the global rules. Why does Reddit care about such small guppies?