• abff08f4813c@kbin.social
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    To all the folks saying that reddit couldn’t replace the mods, that it was too big an effort, that they couldn’t run a big sub all by themselves, I have only one thing to say to you.

    You were right.

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      I’m sure users will step forward if they care. Otherwise, it’s just a campaign optimization at work. Limit the breadth of organic content to deepen the brand-friendly content and push more paid media into the feed.

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        Yes they most definitely will…but increasingly such things likely will not happen on the Reddit platform, moving forward. There are actual reasons that the mods left - e.g. to moderate a sub of millions of subscribers takes effort, which needs tools to make that happen - and those reasons still exist.

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        I’m sure users will step forward if they care.

        This is the part I didn’t quite get. Like I am sure that there were users who requested this sub in r/redditrequest after r/TIHI became unmoderated.

        For some reason I don’t understand, these requests did not pan out and it ended up getting shut down instead.

        At the very least, users stepping forward doesn’t seem to be enough on its own.

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          From the one time I tried requesting a sub there, they don’t just let someone have a sub if they ask and it’d be banned otherwise, they probably won’t give it to you if you don’t have mod experience for example (the reason I didn’t get the niche sub I was trying to revive, which is reasonable enough), or if they feel that what experience you do have isn’t enough that you’d likely be able to handle the particular sub. TIHI is a big sub, so they’d not just be looking for any random volunteer, it’d have to be someone experienced with moderating sizable subs, probably. And those people are, well, exactly the kind of people angry with reddit right now.

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    I think it’s funny that in response to this people are STILL insisting that it’s easy to find new mods. TIHI, interestingasfuck, and shittylifeprotips have been closed for over a week because they have no mods. Before TIHI mods got banned, they offered multiple users complaining the option to take over moderating the sub and they said no.

    How does any of this point to it being easy to replace mods? Delusional

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    I personally never browsed TIHI. It was always one of those where linking it was more of a meme than actually browsing it in my mind. Similar to how a lot of people would comment “/r/unexpectedjohnmulaney” but very few people were actually subbed to /r/unexpectedjohnmulaney. Because who the heck wants a bunch of pictures of comments referencing John Mulaney jokes in their feed? It’s the old “subreddits as hashtags” bit.

    All that being said, it sucks because I know TIHI actually had more of a community than most “hashtaggy” subreddits. My understanding is it was a bit like a blend of ATBGE, MildlyInfuriating, CursedImages, or DIWhy.

    Reddit is killing real communities, and killing their own history in the process. All those comments throughout the ages linking “/r/TIHI” now link to a dead sub. As much as I may have found those comments annoying, there were people out there who would click that link and go browse or maybe even subscribe to TIHI as a result of those comments.

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      It’s only a matter of time until more subs start meeting the same fate. I’m glad to have found a new platform to move to. After reading the posts from the Apollo dev, it seemed like the writing was on the wall about Reddit

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      The thing about TIHI, interestingasfuck, SLPT are that they regularly made r/all. Content hitting the front page means views for Reddit. So it’s less about the sub’s specific userbase, and more that those “main” subs have broad user appeal that brings people to Reddit in the first place.

      And currently they’re all shuttered. Which means less content on r/all, which decreases the general audience appeal of Reddit.

      Quality management 👍

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        But I thought millions of people depended on the communities involved and that’s why they had to reopen.

        Doesn’t banning the community just fully go against their stated reasoning?

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          We are under no obligation to pretend that’s not a tissue-paper thin disguise for getting the moderators to act how Reddit wants here.

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      Yeah this is the dumbest move possible. I can only assume they’re trying to scare other mods into alignment because they can’t replace the moderators effectively. Well, I’ll cheers to their stupidity!

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      And who are they going to have take over mod responsibilities (for free) in all of these communities at once? This is why mods need to call their bluff and force them to try to replace them.

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        Saw someone complaining about the protest in a thread where the top mod was offering up the sub to whoever wanted it. I suggested they (person complaining) go ahead and step up and ask to be a mod. They replied something like, “I don’t wanna be an E-jannie…[blah blah].”

        These people assume that there’s plenty of other people who will step-up and take over. We’ll see I guess.

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          Whenever people say “Somebody should do something!” they very rarely ever add “and the somebody is me”

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    TIHI was a fairly large sub, with almost multimilion level of subscribers. If reddit wanted to increase traffic and get more eyes on ads, they’re doing quite a terrible job of it so far.

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      Reddit’s stance has just been so bizarre.

      So they want people to pay to not see ads? They literally sell that as a product, Reddit Premium. Why not tie API access to premium subscriptions? It’s not even unprecedented; Spotify does this.

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    In for a penny, in for a pound I guess.

    I didn’t think Spez would literally drive his platform to ashes, I thought there was a middle ground, but nope he is going straight to the logical conclusion to all this.