I override your decision and I make it acceptable.
Reddit admins will say or do anything they think will push the IPO forward.
They have zero respect or care for the people on the site. To them, Reddit users are cattle to be sold and nothing more.
Forums existed long before Reddit became ubiquitous. They have no unique selling point and I think they are about to find that out.
The centralisation of web 2.0 has gone to the point that the benefits are far, far outweighed by the downsides.
Of course it isn’t acceptable. Going NSFW would hit them where it hurts most, their wallets.
Their app being inaccessible for the blind was ‘not acceptable’. They can go shove it.
I love it. “Get over us screwing you and with normal discourse, or else” will definitely go over well 🤣
I don’t think they know what protest means.
Also, Streisand effect. If you keep telling them to stop, its just gonna get worse, boo boo.
sure, its “not acceptable” that the majority of your users are democratically voting to take these subs to NSFW.
This is the last gasp of the irrelevant. Just like applebees was blaming ‘the kids these days’ and their avocado toast as to why they won’t pay $17 for a microwaved cheeseburger… That generation was out of touch with the modern consumer, and instead of ADAPTING (like capitalism says it does), they blamed what should be “their customers” on their business model failing.
Well, reddit is being just as myopic.
To them its “not acceptable” that the majority of its users have changed their minds and are actively trying to ruin the site. They just can’t accept that idea, so the behavior is “not acceptable”. Get a clue guys. Just because we keep loading your website doesn’t mean we’re going to keep being your free content and moderation generators.
Oh, capitalism is working. We’re all voting with our feet. ;)
For being the “front page of the internet,” they sure don’t seem to understand how it works.
we all know, The Internet is For Porn
(we’ll go with the WoW version of it this time, for nostolgia.)
Of course not, it’s hurting their revenue from usually SFW subs.
It should have been enough to just say “We allow profanity which is why the sub is marked NSFW” and would’ve given them much better legs to stand on with Reddit.
This alternative is arguably less bad than getting some surprise porn in your feed and the reddit ToS still says that profanity is considered NSFW
Logic doesn’t matter to admins who are in full crackdown mode. They only care about killing dissent right now. TFA says that mods of r/formula1 were forced to remove NSFW label but they did not contain porn. r/anime_titties were forced to stop posting anime titties and resume posting news articles. ¯\(ツ)/¯
What if it’s not in protest? What if it’s a legitimate decision of the community to just go NSFW?
The funny thing is that Reddit said they wanted the moderators to respect the wishes of their community. Mods should be able to be voted out. So the mods held votes about making it NSFW and it won. Now Reddit wants to say, “hey you can’t do that”.
They messaged /r/Finland and told them that a small subset of users voting on the poll is doing a disservice to the users who don’t vote.
Apparently on reddit, not voting is the equivalent of a no vote. Imagine if real life politics worked that way.Reddit also lied, they said the sub got 20m unique visitors per month while the moderators can see those stats themselves and said the sub only gets 20k-30k unique visitors.
Raises questions about all the other figures they’ve cited with regards to their value to investors and all the traffic they get
It’s nonsense. Reddit wants the moderators to act as paid employees, but for free. If you modded a large sub would you want to be treated as an employee that reddit owns? Fuck that.
All of a sudden it’s not ok. Maybe reddit shouldn’t have fucked around and found out, starting with spud head Spez
Lol Reddit
The only thing acceptable to Reddit is that users produce content and drive traffic for free, while mods do all the heavy lifting administration for free, while leadership prepares to pump and dump.
For the people who make their living owning property, having people do most of the labour for free is the best deal possible, and they still couldn’t make a profit, or a useful mobile app, or an actually engaging website.
Somehow, after almost 20 years, Reddit still doesn’t have an actual value proposition for its product. Everything worth anything is found in its users. And those assholes are going to walk away with massive money bags for it (even if those bags will probably now be somewhat smaller than they would have been had they not just repeatedly stepped in shit and licked their shoes clean).
I mean they have roughly 450 million USD gross revenue per year. They just suck at using it efficiently. Especially when they get 99% of their moderation work and content curation for free.
