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Reddit mods discuss forming a union and suing for back pay
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/h/slackernews LOG /h/slackernews MODS /h/slackernews EXILEES /h/slackernews FOLLOWERS /h/slackernews BLOCKERS
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What are they gonna do? Get booted?
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Some of them are, yes. They booted a few mods from subs, which is kind of like being fired and replaced by a new mod. Which leads to the question - if you can be fired and replaced by someone new, was that new person hired?
Whether this union thing works and reddit ends up having to pay through the nose, or it fails with much crying, it'll be fun to watch.
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Umm sure. And maybe as a user if I get banned for posting a bunch of slurs then I'm getting fired too I guess. Where's my paycheck?
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spez said it's in the mail.
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If Reddit thinks they will have to pay a dollar to a janny, they will fire them all and relocate the jobs to India.
And they should!
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Then they'd lose their safe harbour status and REALLY be in the shit.
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I'm so happy in the Congophedre 10mo ago #4393323 Edited None spent 0 currency on pingsTwitter, Facebook, and Instagram do this already. Why can't reddit?
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Safe Harbour status?
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Basically Reddit is providing a platform and is hands off with moderation - that's all done by volunteers. Because the mods aren't paid, they have some protection from liability for copyright. If mods are suddenly employees, they lose that protection.
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Oooo that's actually very interesting
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I love that they are coordinating and collaborating on the platform they despise and are (actively?) boycotting. Cuz it's really smart to talk about how you're going to harass advertisers on Reddit's own platform and then surprise pikachu when admins wake up in a couple of hours and just get rid of you.
Krayon sexually assaulted his sister.
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it's juneteenth. admins are racist if they work today
Read what I wrote above. Now picture in your head that I put a /s at the end. Good job sweaty!
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My god I think black people enjoy drama too. Reddit is racist for not giving black people drama on this fine holiday.
Krayon sexually assaulted his sister.
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Black folks too busy celebrating juneteenf by shooting up the neighbourhoods and at
each other rn. That’s drama enough for most.
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They would never do that!
Reddit convos are private!
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Doing it for free
Doing it for free but also paying union membership fees
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If mods gain a right to holidays like today it might actually be worth it in opportunity costs
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What a bunch of fricking losers.
It wasn’t about pay, it was you trying to force the site to do whatever you wanted.
Turns out when they aren’t trying to make a p-do an admin they won’t listen to you.
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Reddit literally only gives a shit when it looks bad to advertisers lol
"We're hiring a known p-do"
"we're hosting le hecking harmful malinformation like "masks don't block covid", "vaccines are supposed to make you immune" and "it was a lab project"
"we're making it so people don't freeload off of us and use their own ads instead of ours"
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it's about third party appsit's about the usersit's about the blindit's about access to pornit's about mod toolsit's about being a decent fricking human beingit's about our unpaid labour <-- you are here
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ive pushed a mop elsewhere before and the admiggers were completely hands off and let you mod. It was a good time while it lasted. I would have just quit if the admiggers took away my fun. then i just found other cool communities I didn't need to mop up after myself when everyone eventually moved on.
even if you make the argument that they won't put down the mop and give up power, it just makes the mods look more pathetic. Some of these subs have massive numbers of subscribers. They could easily make their own patriots.win copy and be more reddit than reddit is somewhere else. The codependency on reddit is unreal
Read what I wrote above. Now picture in your head that I put a /s at the end. Good job sweaty!
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A year ago when we had /r/RedditModeratorUnion people complained that it was too obvious. Now they're actually trying to unionize.
Life imitates art
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I came in with this story 1 minute before you! https://rdrama.net/post/180138/jannies-devise-a-cunning-plan-on
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I will send you compensation equal to upvotes if you admit my post is better.
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My post is twice as good, yet with half as many upmarseys.
I feel like I've been stabbed.
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Aevann even pinned mine for like an hour. Get rekt.
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Lol, he pinned mine too, and gave me 100 dc reparations!
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Your post is better
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Slackernews is for the more sophisticated people to discuss this, unlike you redditors
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They can have all the back pay they want. They can even have double their normal salary
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This blackout is a gift that keeps on giving
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Reminder - these are the same people who thought g*mergate was stupid.
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Jannies want Reparations
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Have fun trying to enforce your island's laws on a legal entity based and hosted in a different country, r-slur.
IDK what the frick makes Europeans like this.
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Quite the opposite. It's in fact the very, very small minority who are loudly proclaiming the site would be lost without them. That's false.
And getting that very simple observation wrong makes me dislike the "protestors" all the more.
I copied this from a /technology thread a couple weeks ago:
https://old.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/14arpm2/reddits_ceo_really_wants_you_to_know_that_he/jod0gxv/?sort=controversial
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When you finally get your back pay of $0/yr for 15 years.
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Ah yes, you can definitely sue for "backpay" with no agreed-upon contract, w-2, etc
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Reddit didn't dump us, WE dumped THEM.
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