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

True, but Reddit let this problem fester for a long time.

What's interesting to me here regarding this, is Reddits current preparation timescale. This isn't going to be enforced until March 31st, 2026. This tells me that Reddit would have been unprepared for a complete mass-walkout of community moderators during the 2023 Reddit API strikes. A large chunk of Reddit during that period was genuinely inaccessible. But after a few token gestures and a few examples made of some especially rebellious mod-teams, most of the striking moderators returned.

A huge opportunity was missed by people running major communities to functionally degrade Reddit in at least the medium-term as a website. You can't just hastily promote random people to replace moderators Reddit is either forced to remove or who leave voluntarily. The average person is likely too lazy, too arbitrary and too corrupt to effectively oversee communities of notable sizes.

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Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
The quality of reddit took a massive hit after the strike and never recovered.

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- Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  it took another one from the series of purges this year too. i think the purges did alot more damage than reddit is letting on. since they were doing it for months on end, i was seeing a real decrease in users posting, and mostly it was replaced by bot posting.
  
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Yaztromo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
I was on one of those “especially rebellious mod-teams”. We were even interviewed by Ars Technica about it all at the time.

On advice of a majority of our users, we took our sub offline and kept it that way until Reddit booted us as mods. Honestly, this was the outcome I was expecting — hell, I was pretty open about goading them into it. What was the alternative — to cave to the platform that was abusing us so I could keep working for them for free?

That’s the part I didn’t understand about my fellow mods from other subs. Many of them caved pretty quickly. Their identities seemed to be so tied up in being a Reddit mod that they couldn’t let it go, even though the relationship was obviously very unequal. Too many other people stood up after witnessing the mod abuse to take over from those who got the boot, just asking for the Reddit boot to be applied to their necks instead.

Well, I wish all the mods the kind of treatment they forgave/ignored the last time around.

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- Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  at least you wernt like that anti-work mod that went ON FOX, that actually drew negative attention to the site.
  
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  - Yaztromo@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    I have way too much self-respect to ever show my face on FOX 🤣.
    
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Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
actually, thier purges since the election was too effective, and removed so much users and mods by banning them. plus the shadowbans have dramatically increased, because they made the filters to sensitive to "potential bots/spammers)

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