They should really have used a polling site off Reddit to avoid that, but then, I suppose that if Reddit honestly got caught fiddling the scores -- like, say, a huge instant jump at the end -- that would be pretty catastrophic from a PR standpoint for the admins doing it.
that would be pretty catastrophic from a PR standpoint for the admins doing it.
After all the bad PR L's Reddit has been taking lately, I feel like they'd just add it to the pile. They clearly don't care about anything other than money at this point.
This is going to be interesting in the long term for a lot of subreddits when people sort by top posts. Similar to when ever sub had a net neutrality post stickied
u/spez tries to paint it was just mods trying to be powertripping and not standing for the communities. This refutes the sentiment along with the reactions of /r/pics and the likely coming r/aww action.
That though process won't even cross their mind. More like "See? The reopened communities are very active and actually generate MORE clicks now. We were right to force them open!". Only if the new direction would produce less clicks or advertisers are bothered by it ("I wanted to advertise my camera in r/pics but the new direction makes it unprofitable") they might look into where that "sabotage" is coming from and care about it.
Keep in mind, this is being done by the users. The sticky post actually contains a moderator being against this reaction, claiming if they keep "maliciously complying" Reddit will punish them.
So once again, the users are actually onboard - the mods are scared of losing their fake title. And I say that as a previous Reddit moderator that loved the community I had helped grow. I even hosted Reddit Talks, one of their failed experiments.
https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/1981f4ac-2580-43aa-b046-9aa467eb8b35.png I'd say he is not onboard, but will not interfere immediately as to not anger the users. Many comments are directly asking what's even the point of the effort to keep the current moderators if they're not going to act any differently, and he doesn't reply to those.
Hey man, replying just to let you know I'll remove my comments from this chain, but I'll keep the screenshot and as you've said, users can follow the link to read the context. I realized my post history was becoming way too Reddit focused today, while my previous usage of Lemmy was not related to Reddit at all - and I prefer things that way. Cheers!
I mean, looks like no matter what the current mods do, Reddit is determined to silence the organic community-driven protest. Eventually mods will have to play ball or be replaced, but this current attitude of "look admins, we're doing what you want, it's the users who are not" delays that inevitability in a way that does in fact support the community users in their desire to protest. All the mods quitting right now in anger would just be replaced with new boot licking mods who would ban these protest posts immediately.
I don't think there's any way for the community to win in the long run, but the current mods half-ass playing ball is allowing the protest to continue for now
On one hand, I really wish there was a RES add-on for Lemmy. Just so I could filter out the cascade of posts about reddit. I left the site and don't give a shit if it burns or not. On the other hand, this is pretty funny to read about.
I've been considering making something like RES for Lemmy. Not sure if I really have the time, but if nobody else steps up to it in the next couple of weeks, I'll see if I can.
I'm not well practiced in Rust, but that is a good idea. I have been meaning to learn Rust. Although an extension does allow for features that may not be accepted into Lemmy.
Exactly. We don't really need RES for lemmy because we have lemmy-ui project. It's all out of my wheelhouse, but with community contributions, there's a lot of awesomeness that could be added to it as optional elements.
It makes me sad to see what happens on Reddit, but actions like this keep my hopes up. Not for Reddit itself, but for the community and its people, wherever it will be. :)
It's good to see people are still willing to fight any kind of bs in droves like this. I was worried that would fade when the stress of the pandemic did. But it hasn't. We need people to fight to make the changes happen that we've known needed to happen years ago.
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