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“Reddit cannot survive without its moderators. It cannot.” - The Verge (www.theverge.com)

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That’s a recent quote from Reddit’s VP of community, Laura Nestler. Here’s more of it: This week, Reddit has been telling protesting moderators that if they keep their communities private, the company will take action against them. Any actions could happen as soon as this afternoon.

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[-] TheOneWithTheHair@lemmy.world 58 points 1 year ago

Reddit CEO calls unpaid moderators' concerns "noise"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOm_UKGyrZg

This is abusing volunteers. If there are 140,000 active subreddits and if 10% of the moderators hang up their aprons, then Reddit has 14,000 unmoderated subreddits. They can close the subreddits, pay someone to moderate, try to pawn them off on a new sucker, or have bots run the subreddits. The question is, in the meantime, will the spammers abuse Reddit like their mods are being abused by Reddit? Let Reddit deal with these problems. If you're a mod, why are you giving your time away for free to a company that doesn't care about you?

If you're a mod, I get that you care about your subreddit, but why waste your talent on someone who thinks your concerns are just noise?

The Minecraft Devs left Reddit:

https://comicbook.com/gaming/news/minecraft-devs-leave-subreddit-due-to-controversial-reddit-changes/

Leave Reddit? To quote Din Djarin, "This is the way."

[-] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

if 10% of the moderators hang up their aprons, then Reddit has 14,000 unmoderated subreddits

Not exactly. Most subs have more than 1 moderator.

[-] priapus@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 year ago

Plus tons of mods moderate many subreddits. It'd be a much more complex statistic

[-] PeachMan@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago

That's a big point. There are a lot of VERY prolific moderators, especially on the more popular subs.

[-] zeppo@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Spammers must be salivating, like "Yes Splez! We would be happy to take over this sub for you!"

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