My perspective on this is split. On one hand, “get back to work”, when they’re not paying anyone for that work, is upsetting. On the other, I’m sure that all the mods know whether or not they want to lead a community on Reddit or not. No one should be allowed to force them to run those communities; but leading troll campaigns isn’t going to make anything better. By all means, leave Reddit if that’s what you want. Don’t pretend to stay just to ruin it for other folks.
The issue with claiming that they’re ruining it for others is… They built those communities. Literally. Reddit is built by those volunteers - from the literal translations used for each language, to the moderator tools, to the anti-spam system, to the rules, the wikis, the guides, the weekly events. They built it. So it’s not “ruining it for others” if suddenly they decide to change drastically how they do things.
Not to mention that historically there have been plenty of examples of mods “ruining” their subs by deciding to change the rules, and until this point Reddit’s answer to user complaints has always been “tough shit, mods are gods, you can start a new subreddit.”
Why isn’t that the answer now? Why not let the users who are upset by John Oliver create /r/true_pics or /r/true_aww or whatever? They always had to resort to that in the past.
My perspective on this is split. On one hand, “get back to work”, when they’re not paying anyone for that work, is upsetting. On the other, I’m sure that all the mods know whether or not they want to lead a community on Reddit or not. No one should be allowed to force them to run those communities; but leading troll campaigns isn’t going to make anything better. By all means, leave Reddit if that’s what you want. Don’t pretend to stay just to ruin it for other folks.
The issue with claiming that they’re ruining it for others is… They built those communities. Literally. Reddit is built by those volunteers - from the literal translations used for each language, to the moderator tools, to the anti-spam system, to the rules, the wikis, the guides, the weekly events. They built it. So it’s not “ruining it for others” if suddenly they decide to change drastically how they do things.
Not to mention that historically there have been plenty of examples of mods “ruining” their subs by deciding to change the rules, and until this point Reddit’s answer to user complaints has always been “tough shit, mods are gods, you can start a new subreddit.”
Why isn’t that the answer now? Why not let the users who are upset by John Oliver create /r/true_pics or /r/true_aww or whatever? They always had to resort to that in the past.