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.

  • coupland
    6•1 year ago

    Wait this doesn’t add up. The posted screen shot isn’t coercive. It’s asking if anyone on the mod team is willing to betray their fellow mods. If not, cool. Sounds like there were one or more mods on the /r/piracy team who chose the “betray” thing.

    • db0
      17•1 year ago

      I got demoded by reddit admins though

      • coupland
        1•1 year ago

        Understood, I’m not saying this wasn’t sleazy. Just saying that they appear to have gotten permission from x% of mods on the sub.

          • coupland
            2•1 year ago

            From reading the screen shots you shared:

            “We are reaching out to any moderators currently on the mod team who would be willing to take steps to reopen the community”

            and

            “If you have any question regarding your removal, you can contact the moderator team for /r/Piracy”

            I mean, it’s pretty obvious one or more mods rolled on you. I’m sorry I’m not trying to be argumentative with you, it’s very shitty and Reddit sucks. We wouldn’t be discussing this here if I was a friend of reddit.

            • db0
              10•1 year ago

              No really I’m telling you, I’ve seen the modlog, it was reddit admins. Other mods cannot remove me as I was the top mod.

              • coupland
                5•1 year ago

                You’re not following what I’m getting at. Reddit wants to have plausible deniability so they reach out to mod teams asking them to Judas on their fellow mods. We don’t know how many agreed to turn on you – maybe it was one, maybe it was 51%, maybe it was all of them.

                The mods go to Reddit and say “yes we’ll work with you to get the subreddit back up. But we don’t have access to demod the head mod.” Reddit says “say no more, I got u.” They demod you, and say “If you have any questions go speak to your fellow mods. WE didn’t make the decision, we were asked to demod you by your fellow mods.”

                Your fellow mods also have the extra perk that they can deny betraying you. “WE didn’t demod you, Reddit did! SEE the mod logs!”

                Plausible deniability all around.

                • db0
                  10•1 year ago

                  I mean fair point, I do suspect one mod might jave scabbed but I guess we’ll see. With pirates, there’s some reputation on the line in our communities. If people see your name backstabbing your peers for corporate overlords, it’s not a good look. I do know that the 3 mods I added recently are legit