The outcome was predicted by plenty users in this community, but now the news are noticing it.

  • Lvxferre@lemmy.mlOPM
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    1 year ago

    can someone provide a TL;DR of what happened

    API changes happened. Mods protested against those API changes by privating their subs (blackout). Initially the blackout was expected to last two days, but plenty mods kept going indefinitely, because Reddit refused to undo the changes, and because plenty users were also pissed against Huffman smearing a third party app developer. Then Reddit resurrected the u/ModCodeOfConduct account to threaten the mods to go back, while pretending “I dun unrurrstand, u dun liek to mod than u leave lol” (in other words but in the same spirit). Plenty mods refused, so they were removed as mods. Then the same u/ModCodeOfConduct account started recruiting bozos and vultures to moderate the subs where the mods were kicked out.

    TL;DR: of the TL;DR: Reddit didn’t revert changes. Mods were kicked out. Dumbarses in their place.

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      1 year ago

      That last step is…crazy.

      So, in theory, I could have made a brand new account, say I will scab, and turn the sub into a burning dumpster fire.

      I mean, if we really wanted to tank reddit, we should have been done on it purpose.

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        1 year ago

        Yup. And the karma restriction seems extremely low (probably because no sane person would still be willing to mod Reddit?). It’s that sort of thing that you get in a single day, by simply answering stupid r/AskReddit questions with equally stupid jokes.