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Absolutego said:
Reddit is (supposedly, foolishly) planning an IPO pretty soon, and having your website usurped by a cabal of jannies on NGO and corpo payrolls to ban subreddits they dislike for political reasons negatively impacts your company's valuation.
Banning wrongthink on your own terms is one thing, having it dictated to you by your users implies your site is a bad investment because a bunch of tranny jannies can throw it into disarray at whim.
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Eventually they'll end up outsourcing the moderation tasks to a third-party company, like Faceberg does with Cognizant.


And then things will get real interesting.
 
Ahriman said:
Eventually they'll end up outsourcing the moderation tasks to a third-party company, like Faceberg does with Cognizant.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=bDnjiNCtFk4
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Yeah, I fully expect that if they wind up going public. Though I dunno if they'll be able to afford it, reddit users are the least valuable of any social media site. They're like .30 cents per user at best, and Twitter, who had a user value triple that pre-IPO, lived underwater in post-cashout hell for years, even with the media shilling them constantly, until Trump got elected and #resist/DNC funds started flowing in.
 
RiverFalcon said:
One thing that I don't get is why have reddit admins picked now of all times to grow a spine and defy the mods? From what I understand reddit admins have usually gave in at every opportunity and given the mods whatever they want, and have had little-to-no issue banning wrongthink subs left and right the last few years. It seems like normally they would have banned it and be done with it.
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From what I recall, this is a bit of a step up from previous times. Past protests were basically over in a day and could safely be ignored unless reddit wanted the excuse to remove some problem subreddits, or were about more generalized demands that something be done about a problem that some subreddits happen to embody. This latest thing is a protracted protest with some subreddits essentially being held hostage for demands that a specific list of subreddits be banned. So I wouldn't be surprised if Reddit admins are getting annoyed that some moderators are starting to feel entitled to demand subreddits they don't like be removed. Especially when Reddit likely has it's own internal data on how effective the lighter approach of quarantining a subreddit is working., and if it was going fine they could have been all set to let the problem subreddit die quietly until these asshole blew in and created a Streisand effect with their demands. Furthermore what they're demand be removed is a much thornier issue this time. It's easy to demand that "covid misinformation" - which is essentially a subset of "medical misinformation" - be banned. It's another thing to decide what counts as "misinformation".

Yes the vaccines, masks, and lockdowns work. However it's understandable for people to be hesitant about a new vaccine when of the several variants only one's had time to receive full FDA approval. Such people need to be talked into it, and that can't happen if they aren't allowed the chance to express their disbelief. Mask recommendations have varied widely over the course of the pandemic as the situation has shifted. So it'd be easy to end up banning people and subreddits for saying "don't wear masks" right as the official recommendation changes to "if you've been vaccinated you don't need to wear a mask". While for lockdowns there's a lot of room for debate. Some places had lighter lockdowns than others, and did about the same. So that's reasonably going to bring people saying the heavy lockdown is unnecessary, especially if they've seen their job or business destroyed purely because of the lockdown.

So that's a really big, shifting tangle that Reddit would probably prefer to minimize their involvement with. Which would require telling the mods making demands "No".
eternal dog mongler said:
I'm continually surprised admins let /r/Catholicism live without touching it.

It's been full of unapologetic fascists for years. Not like "everyone conservative is fascist #resistance" but like...literal fascists who hold out hopes for Franco's ghost coming back.
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They likely don't want to risk the headlines that'd come from messing with it. The second they quarantine it, much less ban it, and both clickbait and respectable news sites would be leading with headlines like "Reddit bans Catholicism!". Which would immediately turn into them attempting to defend their actions, as well as fend off demands that they ban "Judaism", "Islam", and "Atheism" as well.

Not worth it, especially when at a glance /r/Catholicism is a relatively small, quiet subreddit.
 
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Welp, the jannies got their way. NNN is gone.

Lets see if they are able to get Conspiracy gone too.
 
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Don't hit the bully back.
 
Absolutego said:
I'm guessing they decided the mods making fake subreddits promoting the boycott was a bigger "community interference" than the mass janny spergout.

Ah well, at least we still have /r/coronaviruscirclejerk.
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I'll give you one guess what the focus of the next janny spergout will be.
 
Fuck this, I was hoping some of the other subreddits joined forces tomorrow and it forced Spez to go on the biggest purge since Krystalnacht.

Instead he limply caves into troon demands the day before /r/aww or whatever the fuck joined.

In terms of pure drama I feel like we've been robbed of seething janny autism.
 
Absolutego said:
I'm guessing they decided the mods making fake subreddits promoting the boycott was a bigger "community interference" than the mass janny spergout.

Ah well, at least we still have /r/coronaviruscirclejerk.
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r/churchofcovid is pretty nice too. Also, let me reiterate in light of the janny victory:

THE WALKER BROTHERS ARE MORE BASED THAN REDDIT
 
Okay, so you guys did spot NoNewNormal getting banned. However, I haven't seen this posted yet:
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r/SubredditDrama - /r/NoNewNormal takes misinformation to a whole new level and creates a fake pedophilia subreddit.

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Here's an actual, genuine quote from a NNN mod that sums up their entire ethos:
"If you have to think about it, you’re already wrong."
EDIT: guess what
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The mod that said that is DLumis. Here's his reddit page, he's having a tough time.

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overview for DLumis

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The sun is taken care of. You take care of your hate and shit here. Seriously. If I wanted to kick anyone in their rear end for allowing this hate and abuse today it’s you. Now that I said that. Fuck you. And I wish you get banned for allowing your community to break ALL site wide rules. Including yourself with using Reddit as your own platform to exclude what you don’t agree with. Fascist scum. I’m never gonna be able to be kind to mods like you. Ever. Fuck you and your bunch of haters.
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