That’s a recent quote from Reddit’s VP of community, Laura Nestler. Here’s more of it: This week, Reddit has been telling protesting moderators that if they keep their communities private, the company will take action against them. Any actions could happen as soon as this afternoon.
Reddit CEO calls unpaid moderators’ concerns “noise”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOm_UKGyrZg
This is abusing volunteers. If there are 140,000 active subreddits and if 10% of the moderators hang up their aprons, then Reddit has 14,000 unmoderated subreddits. They can close the subreddits, pay someone to moderate, try to pawn them off on a new sucker, or have bots run the subreddits. The question is, in the meantime, will the spammers abuse Reddit like their mods are being abused by Reddit? Let Reddit deal with these problems. If you’re a mod, why are you giving your time away for free to a company that doesn’t care about you?
If you’re a mod, I get that you care about your subreddit, but why waste your talent on someone who thinks your concerns are just noise?
The Minecraft Devs left Reddit:
https://comicbook.com/gaming/news/minecraft-devs-leave-subreddit-due-to-controversial-reddit-changes/
Leave Reddit? To quote Din Djarin, “This is the way.”
Not exactly. Most subs have more than 1 moderator.
Plus tons of mods moderate many subreddits. It’d be a much more complex statistic
That’s a big point. There are a lot of VERY prolific moderators, especially on the more popular subs.
Many subs do, but not all mods do all things. /r/AskReddit has about 41 million subscribers, 71,479 comments + 3,669 posts per day (or 75,148 total) https://subredditstats.com/r/AskReddit They have 34 moderators https://old.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/about/moderators How many submissions that don’t survive are SPAM? If you’re a spammer and you hit an active subreddit like that, it could help market your porn site a ton. If /r/AskReddit lost 10% of their moderators that’s 3 or 4 mods. That would hurt. Not that /r/AskReddit is protesting.
Reddit appears ready to toss out moderators who do not cave in. https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/29/23778997/reddit-remove-mods-private-communities-unless-reopen Surely the old “If all the mods become inactive for at least 60 days, someone can request the sub on r/redditrequest. The first person who requests it gets it.” I’m sure they will want to backfill positions but on highly active subreddits, that could be a daunting task and I guess we’ll see what hits the fan.
Spammers must be salivating, like “Yes Splez! We would be happy to take over this sub for you!”