“We’re open but we’re not going to approve anything”
Quiet modding
Damn, /u/spez is scamming all reddit moderators to work for free.
Literally.always been the way.
Interestingly in some jurisdictions this may be illegal. I am United Kingdom. A friend worked at a medium size music festival (not Glastonbury but not just someone’s backyard). For a long time the deal.wqs.just a free ticket and food tickets for 8hrs work a day for the 3featival days and a day either side setup and takedown. As the festival made more profit for the owners the tax man got interested and found the ticket and food was less than minimum wage and started that the benefit of getting to see the whole thing and be communtity" was just the ticket price no matter what the “volunteers” said.
Interesting. Someone should ask a lawyer about it. A class action lawsuit against Reddit right before IPO would be hilarious.
The new description is also good
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.
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.
14 days? Haha, that’s good. Almost feels like a scam.
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.
It’s hard to just quit something you’ve nurtured for years.
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.
If I were Reddit, I’d first target subs who aren’t able to fight back well. Then, after I’ve proved that I’m serious and not bluffing, I’ll go after bigger subs. This is why many subs are allowing submissions again. In their sticky posts, they often mention that Reddit isn’t bluffing.
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…
r/piracy, r/scams… They’re forcing the best subreddits open!
r/scams was anti-scam, though.
Should rebrand to allow scam guides only.
