“If a moderator team unanimously decides to stop moderating, we will invite new, active moderators[…]. If […] at least one mod wants to keep the community going, we will respect their decisions and remove those who no longer want to moderate from the mod team.”
We knew they would do that
Kind of weird how much they seem to want to destroy reddit - right before selling it, too
Their application of the “Moderator Code of Conduct” is shoddy and slapdash to say the least.
I was a mod for /r/Edinburgh and after a post about people handing out anti-semitic leaflets (and the subsequent fascist-baiting and ban-hammering) I started getting reported by butthurt nazi supporters for abusing them in the thread, Modmail and DM’s, but I’m the one that got a permanent account suspension (even though according to the CoC that shouldn’t have happened), the UK mod-relations admin and other admin just ghosted me and another mod who tried to get involved and help.
To put a festering cherry on the shit-sundae, some of those pro-fascist scumbags are still active and commenting.
So after all these years now we get a tool to deal with problematic mods?
Only when its inconvenient for spez. Normal users get fucked by shit mods for a decade, radio silence.
That is some fucked up repugnant shit.
Not only the protesting mods will not return back, but those strikebreakers will end up with crappy tools and consumers with a terrible app increasing spam and reducing engagement.
But Spez has contradicted this, which his odd: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/reddit-says-it-won-t-overrule-mods-and-force-subreddits-back-open/ar-AA1cBvUP
i mean, it’s Spez so the chance of him lying is pretty high.
Sure, but was he lying then or is he lying now? It’s hard to keep track of all his bullshit sometimes.
Seems like something that a scumball could reconcile easily enough; “we’re not overruling mods or forcing a subreddit back open. We’re just removing voluntarily inactive mods, and if whoever happens to step in after we do that wants to reopen the subreddit then that’s entirely their decision.”
