Reddit Gives Final Warning to Subreddits Using NSFW Protest Tactic

I just have to laugh.

Fuck reddit! I'm here now!

It's a shame how shabbily reddit's board and u/spez (and his lackeys) have treated reddit's users and mods. They benefited enormously from free content and hours of unpaid moderation, yet they chose to throw it all away.

If Reddit goes down, what articles will pcmag decide to write about then?

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I'm disappointed how few subreddits are daring to call their bluff, or put their full weight behind migrating. It's clear they actually aren't able to replace moderators that easily.

“We are now stuck in a difficult position as we do not want the community to die”

Feels to me like they dug their own grave and now complain that the user's are problem.

What are they expecting after they remove moderators and remove the nsfw status? That the users keep posting? They aren't dumb and I could imagine that some or most people will probably stop posting there.

I swear I've read headlines about how it's their "last warning" for days now.

I salute the mods still holding out, but as far as reddit goes, stick a fork in it...

or else what? They'll bring in paid moderators to do an actual job?

Reddit admins writing warning letters like I title project files. lastlastLASTFINAL-v1.3forreal.doc warning

Fuck Reddit

It's amazing how fast Reddit went from my favorite place to be online to a trash heap

"This is your final warning, please migrate to FOSS platforms"

TBH I Don't care about reddit now, I'm more into lemmy or squabble now. If its user base grows or declines I Don't care, I'm out of reddit and I'm not going back.

Reddit are past the point of no return for me. They could reverse all their API changes but I'm not going back. They've show their true colours.

The final warning was enough to cause the moderators for r/Military—a forum partly devoted to helping veterans—to stop operating as a NSFW subreddit. “We are now stuck in a difficult position as we do not want the community to die,” the moderator team wrote.

Cowards.

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this is sad when years of work, sweat and commitment wasted WITHOUT GETTING PAID to keep a community alive and full of information to get stamped and threatened by a dickhead

"It’s not OK to show people NSFW content when they don’t want to see it,”

You know what else isn't ok!!!!! Fucking over the entire population of reddit users to churn over some short term profits!

I hope spez buys a yacht or something!

People still use Reddit?

Get back to work or I'm going to give you more free time!

The only thing reddit cant do it stop people just not using reddit. All these protests really arent that effective as people leaving reddit and going elsewhere (hopefully lemmy tho.)

Gotta love the ones that are actually NSFW that they want changed to not. Naked selfies is pretty much the tip of the iceberg with Cyberpunk, with a lot of gore and violence and sex underneath. And there's some truly fucked up shit that I don't even want to describe that's there too, as a side quest continuation of main story events.

Isn’t this the admins like third final warning?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China's_final_warning

I wonder if public freakouts was told to remove the NSFW tag. That sub definitely should have been NSFW all along.

I only go to Reddit now because of one or two forums that don't exist on here yet, But the more I see stories like this, the more I'm inclined to just say screw it and nuke my account.

lol i think reddit is fucked

We should direct everyone on Reddit to Lemmy. Then, (this is copy pasted, I'm not a bot) add an option to the third party apps for Lemmy so you can opt in to ads that support your instance and the platform. Force me to use your bullshit app so you can make more money? Fuck you. I came here from Reddit. But I'd opt in to ads to support something that is clearly better.

Don’t really care what they do anymore tbh.

I just got bored with reddit trying to make money through their users.

i'm still using Reddit for porn, but for other topics i already spend more time on Lemmy. the switch is tough, but they definitely can be replaced.

Make all posts require mod aproval to make sure you comply with not allowing anything NSFW.

I just read the article. I wonder how many bootlickers and corporate apolgists are going to say anything.

This is hubris is really good for the fediverse. I had a relatively piddly account at only 80,000 in karma but I I still closed my account. Good riddance to that last piece of corporate social media. The next thing I want to see is something similar to Pinterest in the fediverse space but it may end up being redunant.

I find it sad for all the useful information on that website ( which, if you come across, do repost it on a lemmy community! ) and the subreddits dedicated to helping others out. It would be great if we could build that on the fediverse, but I can imagine wanting to reach as many people as possible when you're helping out veterans for example.

It's funny that they think they can't be replaced. It will take a while but 5 years from now Reddit will be the MySpace of social news of they don't stop bullying their users.

What is this? The Final Final Final Final Last Warning before the Last Final Final Final Final Last Final Warning?

So let the admins have to figure out new mods for all these huge subs. It'll be a shit show. Either they'll have to pay internal people or they'll get people that can't mod for shit.

I just got my data takeout request granted (110 MB) yesterday, so time to follow up with a GDPR request to then nuke everything. It's the only way to make sure.

I think the next step is to announce privatization of subreddits. Take a week to get all active members approved and then go private until they take the protests seriously or the site just stops growing and dies off

Admins think NSFW means sexually explicit? Wrong it means Not Safe For Work, so gaming subs qualify. Entertainment subs, especially swimsuits or violent topics qualify.

They should just migrate to other platforms or join us. I don’t understand why would they stay on a website hostile to its users like this. They want to protest on the same platform that is the source of the problem…

It is hard to give up on Reddit because of they have the size/traffic advantage. If enough activity occurs on platforms like this over time, more will be tempted to jump ship.

I literally only use Reddit for porn, and whilst Relay was working and still is, I get a warning that this isn't possible unless I use the official app, or the website... All my mobile usage from Reddit has pretty much disappeared.

They should have back tracked, but doubling down is a death sentence for me. They can keep having posts, but 99% of them are already reposts from other sites - Reddit as a whole may as well be a combined Facebook style echo chamber and Tik Tok archive, because these days it doesn't feel like it's much else.

I hope they like their strict editorial control they're enforcing.... I'm sure that doesn't do anything to affect their Section 230 protections.

This is the problem with people that think in terms of being "management". Management will always have an adversarial relationship with everyone else in an organization simply because they think they have to. The longer they stay in those positions the worse it gets.

Best idea I’ve seen so far is to comply - and let the nsfw posts just keep on coming. Show the advertisers how their ads are being shown next to nsfw, and see how that goes.

Reddit decides to “crack down” on the protests instead of realizing that it’s all because they’re being jerks.

I can understand that mods of communities like r/Military feel that they have a duty to serve their community and are worried about no longer being able to do so, unless they comply to the Reddit diktat. But there is an alternative they should embrace - come and join us on lemmy! You can build your community again, in a much safer haven.

"Post more porn!"

I didn't get any! I got it for the Private sub before. I demand my blackmail from modcodeofconduct. I should send some "FuckYouSpezs" around and see what happens. If anyone from Reddit monitors this, the sub in question is /r/mushing

They’ll be put on double SECRET probation!

I'm always between 2 perspectives, one side says to just make their wish come true and allows them to bring paid workers to do the mod work. But then comes the other one that says, there is always someone to want that 15 minutes of glory/power or whatever and will do all the stuff for free.

In either case I think it's not an easy job, and any side will affect Reddit, at least in the short time, people tends to go with the flow, and unless big "old" players (As Sync, Boost, Apollo) or "new" players ( Jerboa, Connect, Memmy) makes other alternatives as easy as it was Reddit, they will stay there.

For instance for me, not been in a centralized server raise questions like where to check in in a community like Aww, Pics, Comics, why there is world, ml or XYZ instances, what's going on ... So, for non tech people all of this will be as intimidating as it was for me, I think.

I don't get why more people don't just use ad blockers. The Reddit staff wouldn't even know what's happening until it's too late.

Honestly, this whole reddit thing is not even that interesting watching from the sidelines. It's good for the occasional chuckle though.

They do love dishing out warnings don't they

Tell the Huff that he can take that final warning and shove it up his ass!

Should we start a reddit final warning count like the CCP one ?

All I use Reddit for is updates on the russo-uknrainian war. Fuck spez. Wish the live thread comments had some kind of mirror here.

double secret probation? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tfK_3XK4CI smashes guitar

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Serious question. Can't the mods delete the subs entirely? Wouldn't that be the biggest blow? To have to start all of these subs over from scratch?

yeee Fuck Reddit

I really hope Reddit not to die, it would be a shame, I'd miss this type of funny articles about how it's fucking up itself

Speaks to the general fragile ego of the mods of these protesting subs that they are mostly caving to Reddit’s threats rather than just walking away. Two of the three mentioned subs in that article reverted back “for the community.”