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Megathread for Reddit Blackouts and News - Rest of the Week(?) (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago by alyaza@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org

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hey everyone. if you want to post links or discuss the Reddit blackout, its aftermath, and what's happening going forward, please localize it to this thread in order to keep things tidy! thanks! we'll see if we need to cycle the thread again before the end of this week, but i don't know that we'll need to

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[–] nyankas@feddit.de 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I would honestly love to see that. It would make their situation so much worse. They rely on people moderating subs voluntarily. They don't have the manpower to do it themselves. The subs would probably get flooded with spam and NSFW content. And if there's one thing advertisers hate more than the current blackout, it's their ads being displayed between questionable porn.

So if reddit really did this, I wouldn't count it as a loss for the protesters. Instead, I would go get some popcorn.

[–] 00@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

Absolutely. And even if people stepped up, theres a ton of institutional knowledge that they would loose. This might even lead to some of the people that stepped up quitting, making the situation even worse.

[–] Osayidan@social.vmdk.ca 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That's what the protest should have been, disabling automod rules, and the human mods going on vacation. Maybe announce a "no rules until further notice" to entice additional chaos from regular users.

[–] pm_me_weird_thoughts@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

damn! now i want to see that happen. it would be so much fun to see the reddit without free mod's labour reddit admins would probably want to die if that happens lol

[–] CmdrShepard@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago

This is actually against their TOS so if this happened they could just seize the subs as "abandoned" or "unmoderated". I agree it would be effective but it would also give reddit an easier out when dealing with the situation.