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/r/scams forced to reopen (lemmy.world)
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https://www.reddit.com/r/Scams/comments/14c9hlo/reopening_but_not_for_the_reasons_you_may_suspect/

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[–] fessord@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

"We're open but we're not going to approve anything"

[–] DoucheAsaurus@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago

Quiet modding

[–] Fabriek@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Good news for scammers

[–] narwhal@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago

Damn, /u/spez is scamming all reddit moderators to work for free.

[–] gkd@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

This is the way. Reddit cannot expect people to dedicate the same amount of time in volunteer work if they don’t enjoy the platform.

[–] 1984@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago

The new description is also good

[–] verysoft@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This is the best malicious compliance so far, still reddit could 'force' them to remove the approval restriction.

But subreddits like pics doing the john oliver thing are completely missing the point, reddit dont care if they do that, it's still getting thousands of views and upvotes because its 'cool and funny', its such a 'we did it reddit' moment. Just stop using reddit, let the subreddits go to shit with no moderation, make a sticky linking to alternatives.

[–] curiosityLynx@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The point of the John Oliver pictures is to make it hard for him to NOT at least spend a segment of his next show talking about it.

[–] verysoft@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

I think it will have the opposite effect people want. It will drive traffic to reddit to see the funny pics, it wont suddenly stop the masses using reddit, a garbage experience has to occur for that.

[–] nevemsenki@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

14 days? Haha, that's good. Almost feels like a scam.

[–] SouthernCross@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

These guys are good. I love it!

[–] Rhoeri@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

And I was just banned from r/WatchPeopleDieInside for calling them out on bending over to Reddit admin.

[–] narwhal@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Did you feel like you die inside? Maybe you can post that to /r/WatchPeopleDieInside...oh wait...

[–] iSharted@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Why continue to mod it then? Let the place wreck itself with whatever nefarious modder shows up to do the dirty work.

[–] sisyphean@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

Maybe malicious compliance is more effective than a full strike.

[–] Blazze@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

That's basically what /interestingasfuck is doing. Anything goes within global rules.

[–] demonen@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's hard to just quit something you've nurtured for years.

[–] aeternum@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

I was never a mod, but i was an avid reddit user for close to 15 years. It was a sad day when I deleted my accounts, and it wasn't a decision i made lightly.

[–] resketreke@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

r/piracy, r/scams... They're forcing the best subreddits open!

[–] AmidFuror@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

r/scams was anti-scam, though.

[–] LoafyLemon@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Should rebrand to allow scam guides only.

[–] crossmr@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm not sure if I buy this. /r/videos was the first sub to go dark early and hasn't been brought back. If the admin were really going in and forcing subs to open you'd think they'd start with the sub that started everything and actually got coverage. Not some random subs.