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AssholeDesign

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This is a community for designs specifically crafted to make the experience worse for the user. This can be due to greed, apathy, laziness or just downright scumbaggery.

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Over on Reddit, /r/AssholeDesign was taken over by a moderator that had been radio silent for over two years. The linked Imgur album contains modmail screenshots and our entire conversation after calling them out for this betrayal.

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[–] Dark_Blade@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is gonna happen to every subreddit eventually. What remains to be seen is how long things last before subreddits start imploding.

[–] pizza_rolls@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Yup, every sub that participated or said anything against reddit's choices is going to have their mods removed. Even if you went public when reddit asked you to.

They will not risk this again closer to the IPO

[–] impulse@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Oh boy, some 14-year old finally got his first power-trip boner! Congratulations to him for bending over.

I hope the rest of you guys step back and let him enjoy the joys of modding alone or with other incompetent shills.

[–] douglasg14b@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To be fair based on the quality of this community it's not much of an improvement on that front.

There's more posts that have nothing to do with design and are just people venting than there are actual posts of asshole design here.

[–] Pitchfork@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

There's still very few posts here so we haven't been strict with the definition yet.

[–] Braggston08@kbin.social -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Honestly i get that you are angry/disappointed on a personal level. But its pretty normal reaction from reddits side. You were not cooperative to their request to open up the sub so they searched for someone who would do it.

I dont want to defend them, i allready cleared my account over there but from a business perspective its a normal reaction. If your employees (even if they work without payment) dont follow your instructions you search for someone who does follow them.

And the new mod might be a prick for backstabbing your protest but thats just a opinion. If there are enough users who want to keep using the sub, regardless of reddits shitty behaviour, its ok to reopen it and none of the old mods has a right to hold it "hostage" for their protest.

[–] CoderKat@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If your employees (even if they work without payment) dont follow your instructions you search for someone who does follow them.

If they work without payment, they're not your employees. And reddit isn't a registered charity either.

It is their site so they can technically do what they want, but it makes them assholes and is not "ok" as you put it.

[–] neonfire@kbin.social -1 points 1 year ago

It's a privately owned site, they can do whatever the fuck they want. Power tripping mods have been a problem this whole time anyway. I'm glad reddit is dying and i'm glad the mods are too.

[–] Brkdncr@kbin.social -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You should have redirected your community somewhere else to begin with. It’s not your site. They make their own rules up. You played chicken with the Hoover dam.

[–] Rekorse@kbin.social -1 points 1 year ago

They took a principled stance it's no surprise they wouldn't break it without good reason.

And they did redirect people to Lemmy as best they could. I'm actually shocked reddit let them send those DMs with the Lemmy community in it.

[–] neonfire@kbin.social -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

lol who gives a shit man. reddit is dead. You've lost your power. get over it. go get a real job

[–] ijustdoeyes@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I didn't think a lot of arseholes came over from Reddit however you've proven me wrong.

[–] neonfire@kbin.social -4 points 1 year ago

this is my design page buddy

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