If nothing else, this proves that Reddit admins don’t fundamentally understand the platform. They may understand the back-end, and how to interact with ad servers to monetize content, but they don’t understand how to effectively moderate communities. it never occured to them that they would need to scrub all the NSFW content before removing the tag?
In some places, that may even be illegal. And the Reddit admins have no one but themselves to blame, because they’re the one that removed the tag without due diligence.
I’ve given up all hope for Reddit as a platform now. Mods should give up, too, and resign en masse. The Admins may be able to assign a few dozen of the largest subs to those power mods who are already favored by the Royal Court, but If this is any indication they have no way to maintain all of Reddit without the unpaid volunteer community they are shitting on.
They have to pray Apple doesn’t hear that. Else they’d get a warning or get straight up booted from the AppStore.
That’s fucked up. What there reasoning behind that?
I think it went like this:
Mods make thier subs private in protest
Mods get threatened to lose mod powers if they dont reopen thier subs
Mods reopen thier subs but only as nsfw subs
Admins decide to intervene by disabling nsfw
Admins accidentally (or on purpose idk) disable nsfw on porn subs
This is great watching the drama from my new “home” here on kbin. I’m so happy that you all are here too, giving me tons to read.
Is it though? It kind of feels like you broke up with someone but are still getting constant updates about who they’re currently fucking the minute you left.
I guess that’s some people’s kink.
It’s more like watching them post about how bad a date went or hearing about how they got kicked out of Wendy’s.
I haven’t subbed to any reddit related magazines/communities here but they pop up on all. I do think it’s probably healthier for people and this platform to move on. I do get why people still want to hear about shenanigans.
It will naturally taper off after the end of the month exodus happens and people settle down into their new communities. Lemmy doesn’t have the underlying culture associated with it that reddit has developed over the last decade or so. That is something that will develop over time. until then we’re all ex redditors more than we are lemmites (lemmings? lemmiers?).
I don’t think it’s possible that they could have handled this worse
