Reddit demands moderators remove NSFW labels, or else

Imagine threatening VOLUNTEERS. How does any mod with self respect not just quit?

Reddit as a company is just so full of shit. "We're so threatened by the fact that we can't make money off of your subreddit that we're going to threaten you." Like?? All of this could have been avoided if they had just had reasonable pricing for their API. They're just driving themselves into the ground.

Spez is out of touch.

He’s forgotten what internet users are.

We are an entire cultural shift away from rule following and shit giving, to a movement of non-compliant Boaty McBoat Faces who will happily bring the whole system down on top of ourselves.

Even if reddit reverse all their decisions from last 3 months I'll still not go back to it.

I removed myself as a moderator and left Reddit.

And the results are hilarious. https://kotaku.com/reddit-app-news-cyberpunk-2077-protest-nudity-rpg-nsfw-1850611359

"We demand the unpaid volunteers that aren't listening to us to do as we say or we will find new unpaid volunteers who will replace you and spend their free time deleting posts and comments!"

Let me get this straight. They do the work for free, and are upset you took their tools. You then tell them open the subreddits or we open them for you. So they do that, and change some rules, now you're upset and telling them how to moderate their subreddits. Like seriously Reddit. Why not just moderate the subreddits yourself?

You have people who have given you FREE WORK for decades, they have increased the value of your site, and they're justifiably angry, and all you're doing is shitting on them more.

What a fucking joke. I know this won't directly affect the IPO but I hope some companies are looking at this and realizing that Reddit admins have made all of this so much worse.

Or else what? Like give them their life back?

I'm sorry, but any mod that gets a message threatening them like that and stays on has zero self respect. It's a volunteer job for god's sake!

The beatings will continue until morale improves.

I wouldn’t be surprised if Reddit pulled a tumblr and banned porn and other NSFW content and just made it a site wide policy that nothing can be NSFW.

It was a fun run but sadly Reddit Admins have the only thing that matters now.. power. They will ban everyone in their way and replace them with some puppet or someone who doesn't care about the api fiasco. Most of them will cave in. They have no choice, because they don't hold any real power to attempt a coup. You know who should quit? Users. But they obviously don't care about the cause enough. Imagine if everyone quit for a month ..

More and more of these communities are going to see the grass is actually greener on the other side once they’ve had enough of Reddits nonsense.

What would happen if all of the NSFW subreddits removed theirs too?

I ended up removing the few mods I had, making the subreddit private and the removing myself. We only had like 30,000 people subscribed but still.

I just decided to abandon Reddit. It’s not worth it at this point with all the bs that’s happened in the past, and now this stuff too - what’s the point.

I’ve been having fun actually looking for new communities and new websites/technologies again. Made me feel like a kid again first discovering message boards

But if any investors are reading, this is not a big deal you guys. It's just a little, uh, it's gonna pass, you know. The company is worth zillions!

I have yet to be threatened for setting it on in 3 different subreddits with over 1million subs each. I'm pretty sure they don't have a simple way to log when a subreddit was changed from sfw to nsfw so they really don't know which subs have done it as protest vs which were like that before. It's only the top50 subscriber subs that seem to be getting any attention and it's because media and userbases are making shitloads of noise to alert the admins to it.

I expect they'll do some database queries or w/e eventually but they don't seem to know who to go threaten yet.

I told them to get their heads out of their asses, in those words. We'll see how that goes. I bet they don't.

Respect mah authoritaah, lol

Seems like a healthy company that's ready for an IPO.

Or else I'll removed myself from Reddit

The tactic of just slacking on any actual moderation and doing a terrible job would have been better imo. Then they don't have anything concrete to complain about, just 'hmmm sure is a lot of spam and porn in this sub'.

@dvdnet90 So, where there should I dump my porn? For the cause, of course.

Regardless power tripping or not, i'm glad the mods are still giving problems to the admin

I'll take option B for zero dollars Alex.

Hateful news, but upvoting this cause it's not the op's fault Reddit is being a b*...