Subs: We’re gonna strike!!!
Admins: until we change our mind?
Subs: oh, just for two days. We don’t really care enough to actually give up Reddit
Admins: oh ok have fun
Subs: oh, just for two days. We don’t
really care enough to actually give up Redditwant to lose control over these subreddits
So many subreddits are just griftcenters for the mods
So, let’s say you moderate a subreddit about Thinkpad laptops, or trading cards, or anything else. As the moderator, you can put links to vendors in the sidebar. You can auto hide any comment naming a competitor, or only prune positive reviews of a competing vendor. I’m sure a lot of mods get paid to do this, but plenty are also just the owner of a vendor who represents themselves on Reddit as a neutral third party.
Here’s a nyt article on the wallstreetbets mods trying to get paid out in a movie deal
Reddit moderators who run communities centered around products are often approached by the corporations who sell those products with offers of employment/free product/preferential treatment in exchange for moderating those communities in a way that maintains the image of the product.
Yeah, Reddit set it up so that any sub which is inactive for more than 48 hours can have new mods picked for it by the administration. Nothing short of the site going offline would stop the grind.
Then there would be at hour 49 be announcements that to combat abuse of mod systems new mods are created and the accounts of the culpable be banned.
This is a likely option if you hold political power, which for reddit stems from control over the servers via legal rights enforced by lawyers and police forces in the US.
