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Reddit demands moderators remove NSFW labels, or else / Anyone who opposes Reddit’s “final warning” will have their mod powers removed.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/6/23786474/reddit-nsfw-moderator-protest-final-warning
this post was submitted on 09 Jul 2023
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interestingasfuck has been unmoderated and closed for weeks now. Other subs are going to get the same treatment, and going dark is worse than going NSFW. The most effective form of protest any sub can engage in at this point is forcing Reddit to fire and fail to replace them.
I guess people just don't want to moderate anymore.
The ultimate "nobody wants to work"
Except it was for free and everyone took the piss out of you for doing it.
Y'know, if they had walked everything back - or even just reduced API costs - right away, no one would have left. Now their top content creators have left, and nothing they do will repair the damage.
I'm all in on this fediverse thing to the point I'm (looking at) self hosting as many alternatives as I can.
The big boys forgot the number one rule of the internet ... don't mention 4chan ... The internet sees censorship as damage and routes around it
I'm spending as much time here as I did on Reddit. I'd like to see a bigger python community and military spouse community, but that'll come I'm sure.
They brought gasoline to a house fire, and now are wondering what happened.
An even better strategy for Reddit would have been to prevent Spez from making public statements about it. If the protestations had been ignored it would have blown over quickly.
This is what all mods should do. Their thanks for running a community unpaid for years on end is a middle finger for not letting reddit profit off of them. Users build, foster, and maintain subreddits and reddit swoops in and declares that it's all thanks to them. Mods who get demodded should wear that fact with pride when contrasted against the ones who capitulated with similar threats.
I haven't been demodded yet but I'm sure it's coming. I linked directly to the new Lemmy community in a sticky post.
Sorry for asking but I haven’t seen it. In which subreddit is the sticky?
I wonder if Reddit realizes that subreddits are going NSFW because they don't have the tools to combat NSFW content.
This isn't a threat by moderators, this is self preservation. They literally have no where else to go.
They take away the NSFW tags, then they will be blamed for any NSFW content that gets public attention.
So it's a lose/lose situation.
it is already a nsfw game
Very NSFW. The whole thing is really sex and violence heavy, and there's some really horrible moments that happen to characters.
These protests are stupid. Just leave Reddit
Devaluing the platform before the IPO sends a clear message to Reddit and other, similar corporations that the data on the site belongs to users, and not the site. If the userbase quietly leaves, then Reddit's behaviour will be SOP for many sites, because it woul show you can take a steaming shit onto your userbase and come away Scott clean.
Lowered user traffic is worse for their IPO than tons of user traffic and a few subs protesting. They know all those people still protesting are hooked and aren’t going anywhere. Eventually Reddit will replace all mods who don’t play ball, and things will be back to business as usual.
If everyone who was unhappy with Reddit left the platform, that would do actual damage.
What's a "nude V"? Or even a "V" in this context?
"V" is the name of the main character in the game Cyberpunk 2077. He or she is who you play as.
So in this context, a "Nude V" is an image or video of the player character without clothing.
Seems like valid content
It's an 18+ rated game. The sub should have been NSFW to begin with, and the mods recognised that in their response back to Reddit.
Not just rated 18+, but the vanilla game has a lot of sexual content including several explicit scenes. Then the modders got to it. But they don't really need to make the whole sub NSFW, there's a lot of non-sexually explicit content and they do a good job of policing proper use of the NSFW tag on posts
It's the player character
Frustrating that someone on reddit wouldn't know what the protest is about at this point.
This redditor doesn't know what they're protesting. That's some dedicated head-in-the-sand right there.
Based
Weren’t they already doing that? I had to unsub from that place because of all the simpy pics posted there daily.
Good on the mods though.
Agreed, isn't that just normal behaviour on that sub?
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