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“Reddit cannot survive without its moderators. It cannot.” - The Verge (www.theverge.com)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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That’s a recent quote from Reddit’s VP of community, Laura Nestler. Here’s more of it: This week, Reddit has been telling protesting moderators that if they keep their communities private, the company will take action against them. Any actions could happen as soon as this afternoon.

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (33 children)

Reddit will die off in stages. Slowly.

First the power users are leaving now. These are the mods and the major content creators (think Minecraft leaving)

Eventually they will piss people off again and the more common content creators will leave.

Then after reddit has worse and worse content, the users who just comment will leave.

After that there will be nothing worthwhile for the lurkers and they will leave too.

Reddit will then be a wasteland.

This will all take quite a while. Even Digg took time to die off.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm not sure if Reddit will "die off". There seems to be a significant portion of users who don't care about the API debacle or protests - they just want to scroll through memes.

I would definitely like to see Reddit experience more pain, given how cunty they've been to users and moderators. But we live in a world where big companies act like shit and get away with it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

no memes to scroll through if there is no one to post the memes

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

When I've checked the Reddit home page in the last few days (using an ad blocker of course, or sometimes an alternative Reddit front-end), it looks like stuff is still being posted.

Hopefully Reddit will feel more pain that persuades it to change course at least a little bit. But I won't believe that the pain is happening until I see it. Unfortunately it seems to me that there are some Reddit users who just want to watch the funny videos and don't care about Reddit's poor behaviour.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

it's still too early. These things take time.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

True I suppose things could change over time. We'll have to see.

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