Powermod of over 1000 subs. Permanently online. Bans users for no reason and posts inflammatory comments and pins them in threads. One example - Do you remember the r/Art drama where the artist got her art removed by a mod who said it was AI art (it was not) and berated the artist for her style? Yep, that's awkwardtheturtle.
Basically the worst of the WORST of reddit mods with no life outside of reddit.

reddit mods cant stand to lose their 'power' kek
its the only thing they have

Apparently awkward was responsible for a lot of the John Oliver spam in the subs he modded. Might be why he's finally gone now. He even contacted John Oliver on Twitter to cry about his suspension and ask for help lol See pic related

'deny the right' not sure the users had that in the first place

imagine working for a corp for 15 years for free 💀

It's funny to get this upset. Reddit users turned from majority of techies to full blown normies who want to share their mundane daily life with other normies. Reddit is Facebook 2.0 for a few years now. Some niche subs were still cool, but the old reddit edgyness was gone. Everything over there is sanitized to a huge degree and there's a reason most people hate reddit mods.
The majority doesnt give a rats ass about 3rd party apps or how reddit betrayed the mods with no modtools. They want to shitpost, see memes, updoot and dont care about the reddit 'community'. The site has gotten too big for that.

At least here consolidation of subs is impossible meaning mods dont get to build little empires without recourse from the users.

I mean you can do it yourself. I turned federation status off for me to get a feel for kbin, interact here and see whats on here. If I get bored I might turn it back on and see what's happening in other places.

This is good imo. Let the user decide what they want to see.

I thought the same thing today lol
Some /m/worldnews thread and the topics was 'Texas installs panic buttons for classrooms'...yeah nice 'world'news. I guess when your whole world is the US

Honestly if I was an admin I'd ban politics from my instance completely lol. Have the magazine already blocked as I knew how it would turn out ¯_(ツ)_/¯

This is delusional on multiple levels. Reddit owns the subs. They will simply replace mods of the biggest subs, smaller subs will falter and some will be replaced by other content if reddit allows them to stay shut down.

It's funny seeing the meltdown of mods as if they're holding it all together when there are hundreds of people in line to replace them - for free. Besides if a subs content goes to shit new ones spring up. Reddit is that big.

It was a nice but meaningless statement that won’t accomplish anything except shutting down some fan favorite subs.
Normies don’t care, normies probably didn’t even know the protest was happening or why it was happening until some of their subs went dark. And last I checked comments on reddit the most upvoted are making fun of mods and their shutdown.

Good riddance. I like the no-downvote style but overzealous mods just create their own pillow fort of the same 5 users regurgitating the same shit over and over.

Huffman characterized the Reddit protesters as a small but vocal cadre of angry users who are not in touch with the greater Reddit community.

Although I guess people on here don't want to hear this, he's right on that one. Price to pay with the normiefication of reddit. No more community. Only consumers.

please NEVER interview mods lol unless you want some new cringe entertainment like with the antiwork mod

They're not gonna replace all of them at once. Some admins will get assigned to work their way down the list (ranked by subscribers probably) and while this is going on I predict a lot of smaller subs are gonna falter resolving it.

People are already making separate subs so smaller ones might eventually get replaced.

That's always how it works out tho. If you work for anyone you never do it as an unspoken agreement as the rules will change later on. No matter the assurances.

You know it's a good meme when people are getting mad over words

Juicy in what way? Pedo-admins like Aimee Chanellor or more vote manipulation?

I don't think any of this matters much for reddit unless spez is me-too'd or somehow nuked on a smilar level.

They have to control what you read and it's always the same argument. 'Dogwhistle', 'Groomer', 'Nazi', 'Pedo', etc...
Funny thing is you never see this IRL and it's only the terminally online who write like this. IRL discussions are much more mellow and you can talk with people about stuff, even controversial topics and you can always drop it and be good.

Every comment in this thread you could've found on reddit and copy pasted it here. Same quality of discourse.