Mods react as Reddit kicks some of them out again: “This will break the site”
1 percent of active mods will be affected, Reddit says.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/09/mods-react-as-reddit-kicks-some-of-them-out-again-this-will-break-the-site/Open linkView original on lemmy.zip
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The fact that humans continue to mod for free, to make reddit a profit which they will never see, baffles me.
It almost made sense back when it seemed like users felt they owned their content. Now that spez has made it clear that belief was wrong, providing free labor is a fool's errand.
It used to have more of a geocities vibe. I could create a new subreddit and it ostensibly belonged to me.
The big subs should just let it go unmodded for a week, I've been a mod of a big sub once and fuck damn people posted and commented some insane shit. Let r/aww go unmodded, that will fuck Reddit's advertisement. It would take half an hour before r/aww became r/gaww
I think automation tools “work” if one lets them do more false positives than not.
This is why I think a lot of Reddit is automatically modded now, because of the unfair treatment people report
That shithole left me.
0.1 % is what they say. Why are they even still there after all that happened? Is "power" really that important to everyone?
I never met one on reddit who wasn't just getting off on the power trip. I think the nature of that role just draws a certain type who wants to do a specific thing
The ones who don't, you never meet.
I've met a few here on Lemmy!
*looks around* 👀
I only mod /r/WestAllis because it was locked from new submissions; I just wanted to reopen it for public discussion and to promote a local board game gathering I run there (which has gotten maybe one redditor who is also on Facebook, which is where the bulk of promotion happens anyway). So, there: you have now met at least one, lol.
yeah in retrospect that was probably pretty harsh. there's probably a lot of moderators I interacted with that I just didn't even realize were chill. also, good on you. 😁👍
Their stock is at 200 something now.
Shit sells, man.
Good. We could do with a similar rule here on lemmy. I know there's probably a lack of people to fill all the needed moderator positions, but I'm pretty sick of seeing the same people moderating the majority of communities that I visit.
It becomes especially apparent when someone gets banned from one community and the powermod bans them from every other community that they moderate. It's rare that someone actually deserves that type of scorched-earth response.