cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/35555.

A fellow mod informed me that about it as I was laying in bed. Reddit sent a message to the mod team and after 1 hour demoded me. I didn’t even had time to see it, never-mind respond to it.

Looks like we rattled reddit enough to start shooting. There goes all that fancy talk about our protest not affecting them much.

Just FYI for now. It’s late here so I’ll see how we proceed tomorrow.

  • honkhonk@kbin.social
    65·
    2 years ago

    It’s amazing that the threat to unmod people actually worked, and a lot of subreddits are reopening, saying that “they have no other option”. It shows that mods care more about their place in their subreddit than the community they supposedly did their protest for.

    • TheLastAnarchist@lemmy.fmhy.ml
      381·
      2 years ago

      Exactly. They say the threat is that the sub will be reopened and then counter the threat by… reopening it?

      The sub is getting opened either way. The choice they have to make has nothing to do with whether the sub opens or not, it’s about the principle of the protest. They’re showing quite clearly that they never cared for that aspect. They just want the “i’ma good mod you guys, honest” rep. Cowards.

      • bamboo@beehaw.org
        5·
        2 years ago

        I think time will tell. Maybe opening it up and maintaining mod status will let them be able to burn it down from the inside. /r/pics has shifted the protest into only allowing pictures of John Oliver. Had all the mods been removed and replaced and the sub opened, then thats effectively the end of the protest.

        • tehmics@lemmy.fmhy.ml
          1·
          2 years ago

          /r/pics is one of the strongest protest subs on my feed right now, I think it’s the right idea. /r/interestingasfuck is even better.

    • syllogi@kbin.social
      12·
      2 years ago

      I came to the same conclusion in a post on a sub that was debating whether they should re-open permanently or not. I’ll leave it to you to imagine how well it went over, but it should be added that this behavior doesn’t only affect mods or power users; it’s true of the userbase in general. People will latch onto anything they can in order to defend crossing their own picket line.

    • Tempiz@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      10·
      2 years ago

      Reddit mods crave the “power” they get from donating their time and labor to a mega corp.

    • SubArcticTundra@beehaw.org
      41·
      2 years ago

      Well, if your choice is failing+personal loss vs. just failing, then which one would you expect most people to go for!?