r/MildlyInteresting lost its mods.
  • confusedwiseman@beehaw.orgEnglish
    24·
    2 years ago

    So you can’t edit on mobile… take 2

    Aspix had the winning comment on this article.
    Below:

    They’re trying to distract from the fact that an admin account (/u/ModCodeofConduct) screwed up royally by forcibly changing subreddits that had gone NSFW as a protest back to SFW without their knowledge, exposing advertisers and children to any adult content that had been posted there in the interim. This move also opens the site up to significant legal liability – up until now, admins just enforce sitewide rules and leave specific moderation decisions to subreddit mods. By purging mods for their actions (which were fully justified under the content policy) and making direct editorial decisions about what subreddits can and can’t be about, they’re taking responsibility for what subreddits allow and potentially losing their Section 230 liability shield. The administrators are in panic mode and making rash decisions to quash the protest that could potentially destroy the company, even apart from the damage they’re already doing to community morale.

    • CoderKat@kbin.social
      4·
      2 years ago

      I don’t think applying what’s basically extra moderation will impact section 230 compatibility. Plenty of other social media companies have paid moderators and that’s basically what reddit is doing here. It’s bullshit that should drive users off the site, but I can’t see how it’s any different from the fact that admins could always set content rules and enforce them.

    • archomrade [he/him]@midwest.socialEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      Genuine question: do you really think their section 230 status would be challenged? Would someone need to challenge them in court by sueing them?

      Wait, sorry I thought that was your question

    • ninjirate@kbin.social
      1·
      2 years ago

      Didn’t the sub get put into a locked state since there weren’t any moderators at the time? Or was is it still fully accessible?

  • AbsentApe@midwest.socialEnglish
    11·
    2 years ago

    I was about to say this is a dumpster fire but I don’t think that is accurate. Whatever it is I can’t look away.

    • snoopfrog@midwest.socialEnglish
      13·
      2 years ago

      I’ve seen an actual dumpster fire. I was the person who reported it and pulled the fire alarm in the building it was sitting next to. Let me tell you, it’s hard to look away from a good dumpster fire.

      I saw it when it was smoking with just a small flame. When I pulled the alarm in the residential building next to it, I also grabbed an extinguisher, but it was too dangerous to climb back up by the time I got back out there. I thought I might be able to slow it down but it quickly raged out of control and became a beautiful spectacle of destruction.This Reddit thing is like that for me.

      (the building was not damaged, thankfully, but I have different hopes for Reddit since they’re shunning the very things that built them)

  • LollerCorleone@kbin.social
    2·
    2 years ago

    I am not surprised.

    On a side note, @ardi60, could you not post the same link to every instance out there? Posting it in just a single relevant magazine/community on a well federated instance should be enough for it to reach most people. Posting it in similar magazines over several instances will just spam the feed.

    • ardi60@lemmy.mlOP
      2·
      2 years ago

      unlike reddit which is centralised on same source r/technology. the thing is each community have different subscribers. So, that is why cross-posting to different community is somewhat important to reach different persons.

      • LollerCorleone@kbin.social
        4·
        2 years ago

        Pretty much all the instances you post to federate with each other. If your post is interesting/good enough, it will get enough favourites to reach everyone’s feed. No need to spam.