Comment on Mods react as Reddit kicks some of them out again: “This will break the site”

• db2@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  *ulterior

  source

  • krunklom@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    While ulterior is probably a better way to say that alternative motive also makes sense given the context.

    source
  • tabular@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Thanks, I wanted to say that but I couldn’t figure out how to spell it.

    source

    • db2@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      That’s what I guessed. Alternative is a fine alternative word though.

      source
  • SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    *exterior

    source

    • logi@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      *widdershins

      source
• NOT_RICK@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  The motive is these mods hold a decent amount of power on the platform that they wish to reduce. They don’t want a repeat of the API protests.

  source

  • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Now /u/spez will have all the power

    source

    • jballs@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Yeah that is exactly it. They didn’t want mods to be able to disrupt the site again, so they’re looking to make that more difficult.

      God, I am so glad I left that place.

      source
• goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Gotta boost user numbers.

  Or obscure them considering not letting people see sub count only daily/weekly activities

  source

  • pimento64@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    That’s it. It’s the illusion of fairness and it takes away reddit jannies’ ability to show off their powermod status, and that’s the only incentive they have not to use sockpuppets for every sub they mod.

    source
  • FaceDeer@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    This is actually another of Reddit's decisions that I'm in agreement with. Subscriber count isn't a very useful number, it largely just measures how old a subreddit is. You can already see how old the subreddit is much more accurately by looking at its founding date.

    source

    • goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      If they’d added, yes. But removing it completely is just a way to hide how many are on the platform.

      Or left in a protest

      source

      • FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        You’ve got that backwards.

        Active users are literally all that matter. When a user is banned permanently from Reddit, they aren’t unsubscribed from any subs. They’re still included in the total subscriber number.

        Showing total subscriber numbers is hiding the details. Showing active user counts is the opposite.

        source
  • FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Total subscriber number is useless, daily/weekly/monthly active users is infinitely more important and useful.

    source
  • ronl2k@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    The user numbers were bogus anyway since Reddit didn’t automatically decrement the user number after banning a member. The banned member had to manually unjoin the subreddit. So the membership count was inflated with banned members.

    source