Over on Reddit, /r/AssholeDesign was taken over by a moderator that had been radio silent for over two years. The linked Imgur album contains modmail screenshots and our entire conversation after calling them out for this betrayal.
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This is gonna happen to every subreddit eventually. What remains to be seen is how long things last before subreddits start imploding.
Yup, every sub that participated or said anything against reddit’s choices is going to have their mods removed. Even if you went public when reddit asked you to.
They will not risk this again closer to the IPO
Oh boy, some 14-year old finally got his first power-trip boner! Congratulations to him for bending over.
I hope the rest of you guys step back and let him enjoy the joys of modding alone or with other incompetent shills.
I always thought a subreddit was created and if the creator stepped down, they could decide to hand it over or nuke it, similar to a discord server or something. Never realized the “I made this” meme was reddit in a nutshell. I’d be pissed if some of the communities I’ve spent years building got handed off to someone else without my say.
“You’ll own nothing, and you’ll like it.”
I once made a sub, and no one joined it. I then found out that you can’t shut one down. Every. You can abandon it, and reddit will hand it over to the first person who asks for it, but once a sub is open it can never, ever be closed.
You can hand it over though. Or at least, that is how things used to go.
Still true!
My one gift to humanity was r/dndcats and it’ll last as long as reddit does.
😂🤣😂
Star a dndcats Lemmy community hahaha
I just don’t have time to moderate 3 posts in 8 years. Live/Work balance being what it is…
My first post was a great photo of a cat behind a DM screen. So I asked the poster if I could use it as a banner image. She wanted to be made a full admin or no.
So no, and it went downhill from there.
So are you telling me UGMadness was an asshole, by design…?
I just posted a link to this on the sub for shits and giggles expecting it to either not work or get banned within minutes. Nope, it’s there and people are pissed. Guess he’s not even nodding his newly stolen sub
Is it still there? I couldn’t find it. In the meantime, I posted this :D https://www.reddit.com/r/assholedesign/comments/14l8bj4/ads_that_look_like_tweets_with_minimal_sponspored/
It’s really flying under the radar.
It’s already gathering up a storm of people angry about the change
Honestly, chances are Reddit didn’t even ask them either. They could have been dead in a ditch for years for all Reddit gives a shit, they just need the content public again asap. And I would not put it past them to “access” a dead mod account to achieve those ends
What a massive piece of shit.
You might even say he was an asshole
That last message to /u/ModCodeOfDoWhatWeSay is a bit heartbreaking, like there’s somehow still a chance that this is all one big silly misunderstanding and if only Reddit knew all the facts, they would absolutely revert that decision.
Reddit doesn’t give a shit they are just happy that they can lay themselves on the back that they got a subreddit to “cooperate” without removing an entire mod team. They just had someone else do it for them :))
Wow what a power trip for what exactly? If he’s not even actively involved what does he want it for?
Let’s be honest, everyone here is on a power trip if we’re using the word “coup”
What word do you think would better describe the situation?
“Internet drama”, this isn’t a national government being overthrown, this is a bunch of piss babies pissing uncontrollably
You’re not wrong, but coup sounded better as a title.
Pitchfork, I sympathise with you. You guys are the real team. This kid is just a scum with a dirty soul.
Honestly i get that you are angry/disappointed on a personal level. But its pretty normal reaction from reddits side. You were not cooperative to their request to open up the sub so they searched for someone who would do it.
I dont want to defend them, i allready cleared my account over there but from a business perspective its a normal reaction. If your employees (even if they work without payment) dont follow your instructions you search for someone who does follow them.
And the new mod might be a prick for backstabbing your protest but thats just a opinion. If there are enough users who want to keep using the sub, regardless of reddits shitty behaviour, its ok to reopen it and none of the old mods has a right to hold it “hostage” for their protest.
If your employees (even if they work without payment) dont follow your instructions you search for someone who does follow them.
If they work without payment, they’re not your employees. And reddit isn’t a registered charity either.
It is their site so they can technically do what they want, but it makes them assholes and is not “ok” as you put it.
It’s a privately owned site, they can do whatever the fuck they want. Power tripping mods have been a problem this whole time anyway. I’m glad reddit is dying and i’m glad the mods are too.
Thats your opinion…as long as the company pays the servers its their right to manage them as they want. And its the right of everyone of their customers to leave the platform if they dont like it (thats what i did).
Maybe volunteer would have been a better word than employee but that doesnt change the essential part that its reddit whos paying the bills for the servers and the technical staff so in the end they have the last word.
But thx for replying instead of just stupid downvoting.
hi, this was entertaining to read really happy to see loud disobedient mods being replaced and removed you have no sympathy from me. when it comes to reddit, decide for yourself if you want to continue using it or not. don’t hold the community hostage. you don’t own it. grow up
The entire point of a protest is to cause inconvenience and annoyance. It’s how you get people to pay attention. Otherwise you’re just the crazy man yelling at clouds.
Oh sorry I guess you own it then right? Poor baby lost his community so sad. You literally only think as far as “I don’t like it so it’s bad”. Besides the fact the post shows they were still giving people access to the community the whole fucking time you ass-clown.
I know for a fact you read the first part of this and said “I know exactly what this is about” and show down to the comment section to post a bunch of bullshit.
So why do you think you are owed reddit communities again?
are random mods owed control over reddit communities? I’m very happy for the protests, but also happy that the power tripping mods are losing that power. It’s a win-win.
Well welcome to lemmy, sorry that happened. Such a dick move.
To be fair based on the quality of this community it’s not much of an improvement on that front.
There’s more posts that have nothing to do with design and are just people venting than there are actual posts of asshole design here.
There’s still very few posts here so we haven’t been strict with the definition yet.
Not trying to be rude, but were you going to reopen the sub and be business as usual?
Sounds like they were gonna put it to a community vote
