Things are moving fast again, so this is going to be another quick and dirty post… Reddit is now removing mod teams without any pretense of speaking for mode…

  • michikade@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Without a doubt. It’s a cesspool over there right now but at least those communities were marked NSFW and the subs were polled to verify that was the direction they wanted the sub to go (because ‘democracy’ and ‘mods are landed gentry’ and so forth)

    They have archived those subreddits for the time being. I found this:

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      If reddit wants to exercise such substantial control over key aspects of the performance of the work, determining how moderating is to be done and the need to meet contractually agreed-upon quality control standards, perhaps they should look into some of those

      …oh god what is the word?

      Employees.