edit: small fun update here, big ones down below the original text
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Very abridged highlights reel, more to follow. Powerlessjannies went predictably berserk and have continued throughout the night. These were some of my favorites.
If you’re just tuning in to this horrifically depressing saga, I’d recommend starting with their initial plans to “play to users’ psychology” and close half the site until Reddit does what they want and the next-day admin response to their cries.
Key takeaways:
- Belle’s “I’m leaving forever and I really mean it this time” meant exactly as much as it did the first 747382828 times she said it. She is still hideously ugly, for anyone keeping score.
- Mr. Davis: no, http://rdrama.net was not down. You’re just bad with computers.
- Mr. Mega: there were no new screenshots because we were building dramatic tension and letting the admin response simmer for the evening before posting this one. You weren't hidden. I'm sorry.
- They considered going against the chadmins and closing everything immediately because “lives are at stake,” but handwringing from BelleAriel & Co. about losing their incredibly important internet moderator positions made them come to their senses.
- They intend to cry to more dead media outlets and get them to screech that Reddit is LITERALLY KILLING PEOPLE if their impotent demands aren’t met.
- They’re actively watching us 🤗 I know you guys run in different - and yet equally embarrassing - circles, but I’d recommend reading this thread and this one too, if you’d like some things to be mad at Reddit for that actually matter. Please stop enabling child abuse and womanbeating. It’s not cute.
Anyway thanks for all the content, I’ll continue scrolling later. Stop banning innocent people to stop the “leaks” - it’s not doing anything lol
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Update 1: They‘re planning to mass tweet at Reddit advertisers on Monday lmao
Update 2: New plan is to - oh my god - write to their congressmen. Using a Reddit bot.
Update 3: Not a development, but definitely my favorite quote of this whole affair so far.
Update 4: This update is a few pieces long. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
First we have the beginnings of a very long discussion about unionizing. An unpaid internet janitor union with negative value whose replacements can be easily automated or done by literally any shut-in.
Our boy conalfisher is once again the voice of reason though. Join us here conal!
Merari (lmao) has unironically declared jannie to be a transphobic slur. You cannot make this shit up.
Seb (I think he's meant to be the leader of this shitshow?) has directly linked the main image of this thread He's not happy!
He's demanded that everyone in that screenshot change their Groomercord display name so as not to reflect their Reddit identity which they think will allow them to operate anoynmously, since they have realized the futility of trying to stop the "leaks". Let's see how that goes for them.
Update 5: Seb thinks he figured out the leak issue! I will refrain from updating for a few hours. Is this because you got me Seb? Or am I playing along?
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Day of the Broken Mop
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Trans Lives Matter :D
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imagine how reddit would operate if moderators were actually there to earn a paycheck and primarily motivated to keep engagement high, rather than to push agendas and wave peepeees/shenises around
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Been saying this forever start paying jannies and the commies dispapear
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There's too many dorks willing to step up. Even some codecels will eventually learn how to work with the site's godawful CSS. This is why they continue their excellent benefits program of $0/hr.
You can either let a small subset of turbonerds hold your site hostage, or you post a couple fluff pieces until they quit sperging and fall in line. Easy choice.
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They won’t leave. They’re too addicted to reddit and the “power” that comes with being a moderator.
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Get dabbed on, jannies
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Trans Lives Matter :D
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Yes
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COPE REDDIT BIPOC BIPOC COPE
trans lives matter
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You sure showed them.
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Holy shit, how is that even real?
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Day of the broken mop soon, Inshallah. Do your part in making that day arrive sooner
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