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Reddit removed moderators behind the latest protests before restoring a few of them - restored by a different admin than the one that removed them... (www.theverge.com)
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"Soon after we published this story, one of the r/MildlyInteresting moderators told The Verge that the entire mod team has now been reinstated — and by a different admin than the one that removed them. The mod’s account had received a 7-day suspension, but that has been reversed, too, they said. A Verge commenter who identifies as an r/MildlyInteresting mod also says the team has been reinstated and unsuspended.

Asked if Reddit could confirm the reinstatement, [Reddit spokesperson Tim] Rathschmidt declined, saying, “I’m not going to set a precedent of confirming with The Verge every action we do or don’t take to ensure users can access their communities.”

He didn’t elaborate on how removing a subreddit’s entire moderation team with no communication ensures users can access their communities, particularly since they were never entirely inaccessible beyond the limitations imposed by Reddit itself."

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[–] Evono@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Sounds like the admins hate each other too and that there's some stressful talk between them.

[–] niktemadur@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I’m not going to set a precedent of confirming with The Verge every action we do or don’t take

If you feel compelled to regard everybody as either your unpaid servant or as a hostile entity - except for taking deliberate time to pointedly kiss the Twitter imbecile's ass - maybe, just maybe it's you yourself, with a profound lack of self-awareness, that might be the very root of the problem you're flailing to deal with.

[–] ptsdstillinmymind@lemmy.studio 1 points 2 years ago

Most of these CEOs and C Suite executives are freaking sociopaths. This is the reason they don't know human emotions. They see other humans as their slaves, plain and simple. Tech bros are the worst.

[–] someguy3@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Sounds like chaos among the admins.

[–] SCmSTR@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

GOOD.

Maybe there's at least one person fighting for good in there.

Or, the random person saying the mods got reinstated is a plant and just wants people to have faith and come back.

[–] harmonea@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Or, the random person saying the mods got reinstated is a plant and just wants people to have faith and come back.

This is a fact that's easy to verify independently. Why sow conspiracy? The admins are guilty of a lot, but this isn't one of them. Yet. Let's stick to true information so we can't be painted as rabid anti-reddit conspiracists?

[–] SCmSTR@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Why sow conspiracy?

Is my suggestion departed enough from expectation from exhibited behavior patterns from Reddit's CEO and admins that it needs to be cautioned as intentionality sowing conspiracy?

Is it really outside the bounds of what's possible?

If you criticize it so, and think it easy to verify, then why not provide that verification?

Why pretend this is an extreme idea when we see sock puppeting often enough to have a term for it?

[–] resketreke@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Or, the random person saying the mods got reinstated is a plant and just wants people to have faith and come back.

Sounds likely, no mods appear in the subreddit's mod list at the moment.

[–] astrsk@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

A Reddit civil war, so to speak? How many times do they have to directly tell every user they mean nothing to them for people to understand.

[–] LoafyLemon@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

They are experimenting with GPT4 models to moderate the subs.

The mods that didn't stand along with the protesters will soon find out how expendable they are to a corporation. The one thing corpos like spezitt hate the most is free and independent people they cannot control.