Let’s say a Reddit admin announces that they are a Reddit admin. What do you think will happen? How would people react?

  • @rustyfish@lemmy.world
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    771 year ago

    Well, I would welcome said admin on the glorious Fediverse and ask how the last few weeks must have been. No need to act like a rabid redditor. We must be better. (Then watch the admin burst into tears, because that was their first friendly human interaction in years)

  • Pons_Aelius
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    1 year ago

    I think most wouldn’t care, “Your magic has no power here” and all that.

    Others might tell them to piss off.

    • @Stan@lemmywinks.com
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      11 year ago

      They might even start their own instance. And some might block their instance. And others wouldn’t care.

  • TheWoozy
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    191 year ago

    What would happen if a Twitter, Facebook, or LinkedIn employee announced where they work?
    They would probably get asked about their jobs.

  • Rik
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    1 year ago

    Probably welcoming, not every Reddit employee stands behind the decisions made by their management.

    If they enjoy to browse Lemmy more then Reddit it doesn’t automatically make them unloyal to their job or a enemy of Lemmy.

  • metic
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    161 year ago

    Everyone would ask them about what was going on behind the scenes and if Spez is as short-sighted as he seems. They’d reply they signed NDAs about most of the questions being asked and quickly regret creating a spontaneous AMA and then never log in under that username again.

  • at_an_angle
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    91 year ago

    I’m technically a reddit mod, over my own private sub with no one but me in it.

    • ShittyKopper [they/them]
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      21 year ago

      I used to mess around with CSS and even made some reasonably popular themes (not under this username ofc) so I had like 4 private subs.

  • @dan@lemm.ee
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    71 year ago

    Depends if it’s Spez or not. If not then… tentative welcome I guess.

    If it is Spez then, well, pitchforks it is.

  • @zabil@lemmy.world
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    21 year ago

    I’m not sure that they would be able to cope to be honest. The power that being an admin, small as it may be, is abused systemically in that organisation. Not sure what they would do if they couldn’t mute/ban anyone and everyone around them.

    • ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠
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      31 year ago

      I was a mod on reddit and it’s honestly a relief to not have that responsibility here. It took a toll on my mental health, cleaning all that shit up twice a day. I have kids IRL, I don’t need to be parenting churlish youths on the Internet, too.

      • OpenStars
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        31 year ago

        That’s the thing: it’s endless, it’s mostly thankless, it’s annoying AF, and some people wouldn’t so much as spit on you to save your life, though it’s also mandatory for the place to not become a hellhole that nobody wants to go to. Thank you for your service, both in teaching your own kids irl and also on the internets:-).