this post was submitted on 04 Jul 2023
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Malicious Compliance

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People conforming to the letter, but not the spirit, of a request. For now, this includes text posts, images, videos and links. Please ensure that the “malicious compliance” aspect is apparent - if you’re making a text post, be sure to explain this part; if it’s an image/video/link, use the “Body” field to elaborate.

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[–] Odinkirk@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Five gets you ten that Reddit will purge the moderators, get lackeys into the mod positions, do a content prune to get rid of NSFW-ish posts and comments, then try to bring it back as "business as usual".

Reddit has already demonstrated that they have no problem breaking their own rules.

[–] frshmt@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (8 children)

r/interestingasfuck is still unmoderated and it doesn’t look like that’s gonna change any time soon. I doubt they have anyone to take over that many subs

[–] UnanimousStargazer@feddit.nl 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I doubt they have anyone to take over that many subs

They don't. Even if people step in, new mods aren't as motivated as the mods that were dismissed.

[–] 25thSkye@monyet.cc 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That’s what those “mods are nazis” types don’t understand. Sure some mods are power tripping assholes, but most of them aren’t and are passionate about their communities.

Many who volunteer for the job also don’t stay long because of the work it entails, in addition to being called a nazi when some dumbfuck clearly breaks the rules and then harasses you for it.

My mod friends from my country’s subreddit stepped down because they didn’t want the abuse anymore after banning many racist and homophobic assholes. They all targeted their (the mod’s) username and made threads stalking all their activity and mass downvoting everything they did.

[–] UnanimousStargazer@feddit.nl 1 points 1 year ago

This is indeed an important aspect as well.

There's a group of people that somehow feels hurt on a personal level because their account got banned and as a result now oppose any protest from moderators on Reddit.

It's the same people that think they can moderate themselves, but yes, they'll find it it's hard work with people disagreeing with them whatever they do as a moderator.

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