Reddit’s replacement mods may be putting its communities at risk
Reddit’s replacement mods may be putting its communities at risk
Removing institutional knowledge means real risks for Redditors.
I'll just go ahead and file this under "No shit lol"
Right? I love that spez is so infinitely inept, he's actually shocked that removing the people, that cared for and built these communities, for thoughtless puppets, could ever go poorly
Username does not check out?
They gave r/snackexchange to some random guy who had participated in the subreddit one time a decade ago. When he was getting weird and manipulative trying to reshape the subreddit, his top priority was instituting a new ID verification service of his choice.
The first guy to request control of r/science was an antivaxxer who sold supplements.
It's so wholly arbitrary and underhanded. I just stopped interacting with my other subreddits and don't care what happens to them.
Wait, when the old mods were telling the snackexchange guy that he'd need automod and various types of verification to avoid everyone getting ripped off, wasn't he just handwaving the whole thing away, saying that everything would be fine? I wonder what happened.
Kinda funny how similar this is to how scab labor is also typically low-quality, expect Reddit is literally not paying anyone anything and decided to kill the goose that lays golden eggs
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Reddit’s moderator purge could have real impacts on reliability and information safety as it rushes to replace mods with inexperienced, poorly vetted volunteers, according to Ars Technica.
With testimony by both expelled former moderators and some of those who replaced them, Ars Technica’s report shows the trouble with the company’s push to quickly replace the mods who sent their subreddits dark, marked them NSFW, or turned them into jokey John Oliver fan forums earlier this year.
Reddit began removing protesting moderators in June and said it would continue doing so until morale improves unless subreddits opened back up.
A moderator with zero 3D-printing experience joined as a “joke” to replace a mod whose expertise included identifying functional gun printing recipes.
A new home automation moderator insists expert knowledge is unnecessary in a subreddit where bad advice can lead to electrocution or compromised cybersecurity.
Stevie Chancellor, a computer science and engineering professor from the University of Minnesota, is quoted as saying she was concerned that mods wouldn’t be able to stop malicious users from encouraging people in mental health support forums “to hurt themselves for their own perverted desires.”
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I was part of that purge, accounts I never post on. Only mod some small subs, they nuked them all.
Ars Technica article is much much much better: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/09/are-reddits-replacement-mods-fit-to-fight-misinformation/