That's what I've been saying. Let the admin remove some mods from a subreddit like r/pics with millions of users. I guarantee anyone the appoint will be very done with modding within a week. It's rich that reddit is threatening to remove any porn posted to r/pics right now, since that will literally become the norm if moderators get removed.

It's like they expect mods to just appear out of thin air and act the same way as the current mods do

Yeah this has been the most obvious answer. The Reddit mods should walk, en masse. If spez wants to be like musk so bad then let him have it. Completely unregulated subreddits going to absolute shit. Advertisers pulling out. Just stop helping them run their own website and it will run right into the ground. Fuck ‘em, they killed all good will this go around and when called on it they’ve doubled and tripled down. I’ve got zero sympathy.

It gets worse.

One of the reasons why those Reddit powermods are in power is because they're willing to moderate a subreddit for 8h, 12h, perhaps even 16h a day. They take it as a job; the replacements won't, at most they'll be willing to check the sub twice a day and that's it.

So to replace every single of those powermods you'll need at least a half dozen new mods. Good luck finding them, Reddit! And if Reddit does find such huge amount of mods, you'll get huge mod teams that will be fucking hell for the users and the mods themselves.

I looked at that mod code of conduct account and they're posting a bunch of "who wants to be mod here" in a lot of subreddits.

People will line up to do it for free, but not to the level Reddit would expect them to. When communities get too many problematic posts Reddit will scold the mods and expect them to do better. It's foolish that they threaten to remove the mods.

I think thousands would line up to moderate... But they have no idea what that entails and would quickly lose control

I just hope loads of the people lining up to replace them are also anti-spez and wait just long enough to make them feel comfortable before they start protesting themselves.

sounds like you're eating shit though.

I remember a sub did that, I think they had a 12 hour approval window. I forget which one, but I think reddit already came down on them.

"Hey Reddit, we heard you loud and clear that sending your servers too many requests costs you money and makes you unprofitable. No problem, we'll ease the burden by allowing only one post an hour."

They're trying to drive hold outs of the site. I suspect it's working for some.

R/DnDMemes got the same message and is planning to request an intimidation check tomorrow morning. 🍿

Ehh, you might as well waste as much of the admins time as possible.

Yes. Reddit will do exactly that. They give exactly zero fucks about community cohesion, mod powers, spam bots, literally nothing matters except keeping the flow of generic doomscrolling content flowing so the ad revenue checks keep showing up.

Twitter is killing itself, threads has nothing to do with it.

That's all on Twitter really. Twitter shot themselves in their one remaining good foot just as Threads was releasing, Meta couldn't have paid for better timing.

All Twitter had to do to make Threads a pretty ineffectual launch was...nothing. They couldn't manage that though.