This is why their moderators’ best weapon is to not moderate and let all hell break loose. Reddit will then be forced to pull this shit and it’ll go to hell fast. It’s their best weapon, better than going NSFW or dark in protest. Just silently stop moderating and let Reddit and advertisers notice when they aren’t.
Sadly people are quite dedicated to doing work for free for some reason
Well, it’s not a huge mystery or anything…people love the communities they build up. You feel a sense of loyalty to the people and to the idea behind the community.
From the outside looking in, I can see it being “working for free”, but by that measure wouldn’t any instance of you contributing anything that benefits others to be “working for free”?
Half of the tech support knowledge I have comes from people “working for free”.
I think the sad part about Reddit is that there’s still a lot of people that want to hold on to what they’ve built up, and Reddit is banking on that to force them to change.
Well, it’s not a huge mystery or anything…people love the communities they build up. You feel a sense of loyalty to the people and to the idea behind the community.
Dude. Its about power and control. It has little to do with any sense of loyalty. I’m sure there are a few that have some measure of loyalty, but very few mods are doing it because they just love the topic they moderate. They’re doing it because it gives them power and control and they love that. Absolutely no one can convince me otherwise.
I don’t agree, not all mods are power hungry, some subs are what they are today because of their mods.
I think there’s plenty of mods on both sides of that argument.
Some do love the communities they’ve built up and some just love the power trip in their miserable lives.
I think it’s mostly about wielding power tbh
Totally this. This is a brand spankin’ new mod, hardly someone who has built the community. Heck he snuck up on the lead mod within a matter of hours after being made a mod.
People like you would think that
Whis understandable and actually great! But if they get screwed over by a profit hungry company for doing work for the community.
Damn, this subreddit will surely meet it’s demise
Having no mod is better than having a bad one
Just let it burn down at this point. Shorting this stock is going to be easy easy money
Remember kids, “the market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent”.
Counter-point: just do it, pussy, you’ll be fiiiiine!
r/wallstreetbets has entered the fediverse
Can you short an IPO?
If you’re a mere mortal you have to wait for your broker to have a sufficient number of shares available for shorting. If you’re a giant hedge fund or other financial entity with a blatant disregard for the rules, then sure. You just short the stocks naked and issue a failure to deliver if you can’t locate enough shares to cover.
I am not a broker, this is not financial advice, don’t sue me if this doesn’t work, etc
Was thinking the same thing earlier.
But basically, you’re guaranteed to double your money. You literally can’t lose.
Yeah, no it literally can’t go tits up can it?
Services like Stripe allow people in over 100 countries to match face to government-issued-ID to prove their identity (at a cost of about $1.50 per verification).
AHAHAHAHAHAHA Are you for real right now?
“Identity theft is not a joke, Jim! Millions of families suffer every year!”
In 3 days when third party apps die it’s going to be so fucking funny lmao. Lemmy is gonna explode.
That is a problem… if it does, there needs to be an announcement made on time by the biggest instances to NOT register on them, but register on smaller instances.
People are going to all be sheep and go to the biggest one regardless, assuming it is just like Reddit.
And if that happens Lemmy will be in a bad spot, because the network can’t handle a mass exodus from Reddit. Which in turn will lead to people coming back to Reddit announcing that the Fediverse is unstable and broken garbage.
So he scabs as a total noob first time mod, AND his whole plan is rely on bots that won’t work in a few days and require govt id to mail someone some chips?
Fucking lulz
Shoutout to the mod who just bailed immediately 😂
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I really could care less
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Would love a subreddit drama over here lol
I mean right now it feels like most posts are subreddit drama.
It would be a shame if people posted about them on linkedin
Lmao so fucking stupid
Wow just wow
Oof. I read a decent amount of comments, definitely getting shill/snitch/power seeking vibes, add to that the admins…what a shit show
Incoming revolving door of Mods who get burnt.
The line of people who want the authority but whom cannot handle the responsibility extends around the block.
Mod turnover will go through the roof. Make no mistake, this is not an untried strategy from Reddit. You get rid off those who can do the job well but are not on-board, you replace them with sycophants who cannot do the job but will toe the line. When shit goes south you hang them out to dry and get in the new batch. Very well known corporate strategy.
If you elect me as head mod I promise to only ban people who I don’t like (I hate everyone)
I’m afraid to say I’m a mod on FB lol, but it’s a UK US based weather group that I’m very passionate about with 92k members.
Basically as a mod, never argue with a member, never show a member up to the rest of the group, there are better ways to deal with things other than flat out banning someone. Being a mod should be keeping things under control so the group remains a good place to go. That’s all.
Our main problem is the fake accounts from the Military pilots wanting to speak to the lovely ladies or make you a killing with bitcoin lol.
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Yep, I have experience with volunteer work (not on reddit, in an actual organization with good intended objectives).
The organization is great, we are ALL volunteers, from the directives to the everyday volunteers. ALL money made goes back into making the project reach wider, don’t want to give many details but money goes into giving out free or very accesible education and health-related services to those in need. We have access to the numbers, its all transparent.The coworkers are nice, its a very niche area of work and we all know one another (so you also make connections with some important people in the field). Some of us have long lasting friendships. The directives of the organization are a mix of founders and the longer lasting volunteers that want to take on those roles. All positions are decided by vote of the community, anyone from the community can apply to any role and pitch in their ideas to make it better. We do that every six months.
It opens many many doors for you, can’t begin to count the amount of stuff I learned, the amount of opportunities that stemed from that (internships, jobs, grants… etc) and volunteers get to use all services the organization provides for free (so I got free education, very discounted health-related services for my family, etc.)All this to say this is a nice place with a nice working environment (all things reddit is not), that actually gives voice and opportunities to everyone involved.
All that, and we still can’t make most of our volunteers stay longer than a few months, because when any other compromise comes up, volunteer work is the first thing to go (which is logical, that’s life). So good luck to reddit, getting anyone to stay without the proper tools and right in the middle of the IPO dumpster fireI have zero modding experience, but I know that doing the job well would be harder (and more time consuming) than it looks.
I’m guessing that most new mods that reddit will end up with just want the “power” but will fall on their faces when it comes to performance. I’m grateful to the good mods on every site/sub/instance who do it for free. Thanks, everyone!
You are exactly right. Those signing up don’t know what they are signing up for. They just want the perceived power that comes with the title.
Hence my comment about seeing a revolving door of mods in the near future.
I’ve modded a fair few subs. It’s difficult, boring and thankless work for no reward beyond the satisfaction of smoothly running a community you’re passionate about…or power tripping, for those who’re into that.
Most people who end up becoming mods will burn out pretty fucking quick. Not to mention, there’ll be cases where a sub requires a certain subject matter expert for mod work and…well, those ain’t easy to find.
Grabbing popcorn 🍿
I’ve deleted all my content I can across 3 accounts and a decade of posts and comments one thing though I have thousands of coins. I’ve never bought any before they are all rewards from posts. I kinda want to spend them on something.
I kinda want to spend them on something.
How about comments promoting the Fediverse?
I deleted my 11 year old account history yesterday. And will be deleting my account on Friday. I’m gonna delete my other accounts today, save for my porn account, which I’ll keep until they pull a tumblr. I don’t feel so bad about it since they don’t get any advertising dollars from those subs.
I’d suggest hanging on to those empty accounts for a while, just to be sure you’ve gotten everything. Even if your profile page looks blank, you may have comments older than the 1000 comment limit that still exist, as do any comments/posts made in subs that have gone private.
I went through and gilded a bunch of posts telling people how to move to tildes/fediverse/etc, or who pointed out major flaws in reddit’s positions.
Oh, I also unsubbed from all the subreddits I was in, didn’t want me included as part of an inflated subscriber count.
I didn’t think of that! The inflated subscriber count!
Reddit seems so clunky compared to Lemmy now. I used the official ap anyway so the whole 3rd party thing didn’t actually affect my direct experience. But obviously their actions affect us all.
Anyway, I like using lemmy straight on the mobile browser, just looks so much nicer among other things
His replies to negative feedback is either “deal with it xoxoxo” or “you’re right but I don’t really care lol”.
Something tells me it ain’t gonna work.
