Huffman said in an interview that he plans to institute rules changes that would allow Reddit users to vote out moderators who have overseen the protest, comparing them to a “landed gentry.”
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if MODERATORS are landed gentry, what the fuck does that make rich bastards like him?
Using gentry as a slam indicates he views himself as royalty. Gentry is defined as “people of good social position, specifically the class of people next below the nobility in position”. FUCK SPEZ!!!
And there it is. They’re going to implement a system that will enable them to remove mods without cause, justified by anonymous voting…when they have millions of bots that can vote however Reddit wants them to. People said they’d replace mods and instill puppets and this is quite literally that.
Won’t solve thile moderation shit show it will cause but the removing the mods forcibly part is now in the works.
If only people were to just LEAVE the site, even just temporarily until changes were made in their favor. A massive drop in user activity would be a huge hit to u/spez and at that point it wouldn’t matter if his cronies took over the mods because no one would be on.
I find it funny that a lot of the people who were yelling for a blackout were still active during the 12th and 13th. This blackout was the wrong move man. Wrong move.
They’re not the last place we’ll go. Neither is this. The core of free discussion on the internet moves with the times and it is moving here. All the way from Usenet to AOL to UBB boards to Myspace pages and Slashdot all the way to Reddit and now Lemmy, and so it goes.
Even if he were right, that only a minority supports the protest, it’d still be the particular minority that runs your freaking site.
The audacity. The bullshit. The outright lies.
Spez is an embarrassment and I have no idea why the Reddit BoD hasn’t asked for his resignation.
Aaron Swartz is turning in his grave right now. Despicable. Who knew his dream of a free and open place for expression and information wouldn’t come from Reddit, but the Fediverse. I hope he would have taken some semblance of solace in what we’ve created.
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We are all leaving my dude. Who will be there to vote?
He’s not completely wrong in the powermod=landed gentry analogy. People have been (weakly) protesting and trying (not very successfully) to leave over the powermod situation for years, and it’s true that the powermods aren’t friends of ours.
But he seems to be suggesting that the protests are just the actions of the powermods, as if other users (and smaller mods) aren’t also leaving. I think he’s going to be disappointed when he discovers that the peasantry are also upset. They just don’t have has his ear because he’s so removed from them, so all he hears are the powermods.
So it’s treason, then.
Dig in, folks. Time to bring the pain.
That article was a wild ride. He said he wants to put the reddit changes to a vote. Just saying whatever I guess. If Reddit actually does that I’ll eat a hat and a crow.
“If you’re a politician or a business owner, you are accountable to your constituents. So a politician needs to be elected, and a business owner can be fired by its shareholders,” he said.
Cool, the first business owner voted out should be spez!
So reddit would rather pay hundreds, if not thousands of employees to moderate the site? Seems like a great business decision
This is the time when volunteer mods finally get their paycheck!
Step 1: Use alt account to trash talk your mod account. Step 2: Apply to oust your mod account with a small compensation Step 3: Profit!!!
