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"Reddit’s ongoing war with its volunteer moderators (and users) has moved up a
notch. As you’ll recall, last week, the ever tone-deaf CEO Steve Huffman
insisted that the protests were just a blip, would be over by last Wednesday,
and were having no real impact on the site anyway.
That hasn’t gone quite to plan.
The protests got extended, and as Huffman and Reddit made noises about removing
mods of protesting subreddits, things got weird over the weekend, with mods
holding votes on a variety of subs that got overwhelming support to reopen with
only pictures of comedian John Oliver. And some subreddits took it even
farther, requiring they be sexy pictures of John Oliver.
And, from sexy pictures of John Oliver, it didn’t take long for some subreddits
to switch to being open, but for NSFW (Not Safe for Work) content: i.e., porn.
This included many popular subreddits that wouldn’t normally be home to such
content, such as r/interestingasfuck, r/TIHI (Thanks I Hate It), r/formula1,
r/videos and even r/iOS?"
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
