Replace the mods with who? Reddit doesn’t have an endless supply of compliant free labor they can just assign willy-nilly to whatever subs they desire. Especially now that the masks are off about what Reddit admins really think about moderators.
I’m giving the most plausible scenario. They don’t need a mod from r/pics to take over; they can use anyone who is power hungry enough to do the job.
Not saying I like it, or agree with it, just giving the most plausible option for Reddit to take at this point.
Because, let’s be clear about this, Reddit is winning this battle even if they won’t win the war. This overall event spells the end of the site as we know it…or knew it. The malicious compliance, changing to NSFW, the broad interpretation of the rules…it doesn’t matter. Reddit is going to win this, or appear to win this in the short term, even if it entirely kills their future. They’ll kill a 20 million subscriber subreddit to do it if they need to.
And I’m pointing out how this “most plausible scenario” ends in ruin for Reddit. If Reddit’s most popular subs are being run by people whose literally only qualification for the role is that they are power hungry, what kind of subreddit will those end up being? The mods won’t be doing anything to cultivate the quality of the place, they likely won’t even know what “quality” is. They’ll just come up with a bunch of rules to enforce, throwing their weight around pointlessly and alienating anyone who sticks around long enough to interact with them. They probably won’t even be good “janitor” moderators because proper janitoring is a lot of hard work that doesn’t necessarily result in you receiving the sort of adulation that a power-hungry person would actually crave. Why spend hours dealing with meaningless spam that only bots will see you blocking when you get more of a thrill from bossing around people who slipped up on some technicality or rule that you implemented primarily so that people would slip up on them?
And if the admins try ordering you to do the spam-patrol grunt work with the threat of kicking you out, well, you don’t actually care. They’re not paying you and you have no interest in the community itself. Rinse and repeat.
Replace the mods with who? Reddit doesn’t have an endless supply of compliant free labor they can just assign willy-nilly to whatever subs they desire. Especially now that the masks are off about what Reddit admins really think about moderators.
I’m giving the most plausible scenario. They don’t need a mod from r/pics to take over; they can use anyone who is power hungry enough to do the job.
Not saying I like it, or agree with it, just giving the most plausible option for Reddit to take at this point.
Because, let’s be clear about this, Reddit is winning this battle even if they won’t win the war. This overall event spells the end of the site as we know it…or knew it. The malicious compliance, changing to NSFW, the broad interpretation of the rules…it doesn’t matter. Reddit is going to win this, or appear to win this in the short term, even if it entirely kills their future. They’ll kill a 20 million subscriber subreddit to do it if they need to.
And I’m pointing out how this “most plausible scenario” ends in ruin for Reddit. If Reddit’s most popular subs are being run by people whose literally only qualification for the role is that they are power hungry, what kind of subreddit will those end up being? The mods won’t be doing anything to cultivate the quality of the place, they likely won’t even know what “quality” is. They’ll just come up with a bunch of rules to enforce, throwing their weight around pointlessly and alienating anyone who sticks around long enough to interact with them. They probably won’t even be good “janitor” moderators because proper janitoring is a lot of hard work that doesn’t necessarily result in you receiving the sort of adulation that a power-hungry person would actually crave. Why spend hours dealing with meaningless spam that only bots will see you blocking when you get more of a thrill from bossing around people who slipped up on some technicality or rule that you implemented primarily so that people would slip up on them?
And if the admins try ordering you to do the spam-patrol grunt work with the threat of kicking you out, well, you don’t actually care. They’re not paying you and you have no interest in the community itself. Rinse and repeat.