It’s going to be a lot harder to pull off massive protests.

It’s not like they couldn’t put a stop to blackouts before, as seen with the third-party app fiasco, but Reddit has now made that tactic entirely impossible. Mods will now need to get permission from Reddit admins before they can make a sub private. Makes me wonder if they’re about to do something controversial again soon.

  • thingsiplay@beehaw.org
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    2 months ago

    Reddit is giving its staff a lot more power over the communities on its platform. Starting today, Reddit moderators will not be able to change if their subreddit is public or private without first submitting a request to a Reddit admin.

    More power by having less power. I stopped reading here. Yeah, The Verge never disappoints.

    • duramu@beehaw.org
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      2 months ago

      Community mods are not the same thing as reddit staff (admin)… I mean probably sometimes they can be the same person, but not normally.

      • thingsiplay@beehaw.org
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        2 months ago

        I see. Well then my bad for misunderstanding this. To me moderators are Reddit staff working for free. But I see that the word “staff” was used literally.

        See you in the oblivion. xD

    • rhys@lemmy.rhys.wtfEnglish
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      2 months ago

      I think you might have misinterpreted that. Moderators are volunteer users, not reddit staff.

    • LedgeDrop@lemm.ee
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      2 months ago

      Welp, I guess this means something bad is gonna happen and Spez is trying to get in front of the inevitable protests.

      I wonder what it could be…