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"The enshittification of Reddit continues. Yesterday we wrote about the next
move from protesting mods to switch their subs to NSFW, which strips those
subreddits of ads, and how Reddit was experimenting with removing the mods who
did that. For what it’s worth, just a few days ago, Reddit insisted in a
comment that it wasn’t “threatening” mods with removal, and then just days
later it literally did remove the mods, so nice going Reddit comms: you’ve
completely fucked over whatever credibility you might have had.
Anyway, late on Wednesday, a Reddit admin admitted that the company was
changing its rules to say that if you change your sub to NSFW in protest, that
violates the rules.
That’s a discussion where a mod asks if “transitioning from SFW to NSFW is
allowed” and the main admin account that interacts with moderators,
ModCodeofConduct, replied:
Thanks for asking this, we’ll have messaging going out to affected
communities later today. Changing a previously SFW community to a NSFW
community in order to protest Reddit policies is inappropriate for members
of your community and not acceptable overall. People subscribe to
communities based on the content at the time of subscription. Communities
can gradually change as they grow, but this is not what we are observing and
not in the best interest of the users being subjected to that content.
Incorrectly marking your community is a violation of both our Content Policy
(rule 6) as well as the Moderator Code of Conduct (rule 2).
This is similar to the language that was used by Reddit’s spokesperson a day
earlier, accusing the mods of violating both the Content Policy (which, you’ll
recall, Reddit took down for a while) and the Moderator Code of Conduct.
But… this excuse is bullshit."
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
