"We're open but we're not going to approve anything"
this post was submitted on 18 Jun 2023
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Quiet modding
Good news for scammers
Damn, /u/spez is scamming all reddit moderators to work for free.
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.
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.
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.
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.
14 days? Haha, that's good. Almost feels like a scam.
These guys are good. I love it!
And I was just banned from r/WatchPeopleDieInside for calling them out on bending over to Reddit admin.
Did you feel like you die inside? Maybe you can post that to /r/WatchPeopleDieInside...oh wait...
Why continue to mod it then? Let the place wreck itself with whatever nefarious modder shows up to do the dirty work.
Maybe malicious compliance is more effective than a full strike.
That's basically what /interestingasfuck is doing. Anything goes within global rules.
It's hard to just quit something you've nurtured for years.
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.
r/piracy, r/scams... They're forcing the best subreddits open!
r/scams was anti-scam, though.
Should rebrand to allow scam guides only.
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.