Reddit would be right to remove these moderators. This protest does nothing for the users of Reddit. Why would they maintain a website of derelict communities when there's a clear and obvious alternative?
Huh? The protest is to make it possible to keep things working. It's bizarre to see the amount of complaining about mods making or breaking a sub and then at the same time the amount of people calling their actions impactless or leading to derelict communities. Which is it? Do users and Reddit need them or do they not?
The only option after fucking over volunteers is that Reddit can start paying people to moderate and keep their platform working. Give it to someone else willing? Good luck with that. Hand your house keys to a stranger, you're gonna love the new interior design.
> The protest is to make it possible to keep things working. It's bizarre to see the amount of complaining about mods making or breaking a sub and then at the same time the amount of people calling their actions impactless or leading to derelict communities. Which is it? Do users and Reddit need them or do they not?
First off, different people have different opinions. Pointing out the apparent hypocrisy of loose groups of people with different opinions, different reasons for associating with each other, is just silly.
Secondly, reddit and their users might need moderation, but that doesn't mean they need these particular mods. Reddit can take the subreddits from these mods, give them all the finger, and keep whatever users choose to say (which is probably most of them.) There will be no shortage of new mod volunteers. Many of them will be bad a the job, they can be weeded out over time just like usual. They don't have to pay mods, mods have no leverage to make such demands because there's a huge crowd of scabs willing to take the job and no labor organization laws cover unpaid mods.
> Many of them will be bad a the job, they can be weeded out over time just like usual.
How long would users tolerate that though?
> there's a huge crowd of scabs willing to take the job
Probably. Though I see few incentives that won't turn perverse ones, especially now that Reddit clearly doesn't want to support mods. So this will last as long as there are communities that haven't been ran into the ground. Those who seek it the most usually deserve it the least.
Sounds like a bunch on pointless turmoil for little guarantee that things would improve.
