Daily Bard Digest 2024-10-12

At 10/12/24 07:57:38 in ModSupport with a score of 1 point:

the ease with which moderators get removed if they do something to affect Reddit's finances

Yes. People who act together to bankrupt the website they're using, generally aren't doing so in good faith. There's a difference between "Reddit hosts the largest Holocaust denial forum on the Internet, ask advertisers to boycott and communities to leave for the sake of their goodwill" and "Reddit turned off the golden goose for a set of developers who were collecting subscriptions to deliver Reddit to endusers ad-free while being a large load on Reddit's resources, without compensation, so we should make the site close down until they go bankrupt".

the new measures imposed to restrict protests

They forestall an action that could either be used for protest or could be used by bad actors to break the site for everyone. Possibly bankrupting the company. People like the political party that is hopefully about to lose the Presidency, the party whose 24/7 violent terrorist rally was hosted here for 4 years free of charge, whose leader and whose functionaries are a vindictive group.

I helped run the most effective protest that Reddit has ever had. We had a clearly defined goal, clearly defined consequences, a clear message to advertisers and importantly

We never went dark. Nor did we ask communities here to go dark.

We did ask Reddit to make a choice, and the Other Side of our protest made it exceptionally easy for Reddit to choose, since they were continually harassing everyone, committing crimes, engaging in terrorism.

And we remain in existence to document that behaviour and how we moved Reddit from "Hate is too hard to tackle" to "No hate groups, no hate speech".

It was a lot of effort. By a lot of people.

Who lifted hard, to keep Reddit from falling into being just another 4chan clone, untouchable by advertising, untouchable by people who want to use a public forum.

If there's no subreddit for what you want to discuss because some long term absentee subreddit moderator woke up and said, "yeah, stick it to the admins, punk rock aahh", and you get people following you around the site giving you death threats for opening one of your own,

Then the Watch Reddit Die people succeed in their covert goal of Making Reddit Die.

Protests aren't about forcing other people to do things. They're not about breaking websites. Protests are about inviting people with power to apply the power they have to end an untenable crisis. It's about showing them what lies down all the roads out of where they are now.

Closed subreddits and a bankrupt company, whose assets are auctioned off to the highest bidder in a closed bid auction, is not what anyone here in good faith wants.