<story><title>Reddit is removing moderators that protest by taking their communities private</title><url>https://old.reddit.com/r/ModCoord/comments/14aeq5j/new_admin_post_if_a_moderator_team_unanimously/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>janalsncm</author><text>Reddit could have avoided all of this years ago by building out the tools that moderators claim to need. Instead, they relied on third parties to create them. Doing this would have nullified mods’ strongest justification for protesting. While removing 3rd party apps is certainly annoying for users, mods are what keep the site functioning.&lt;p&gt;The fact that Reddit chose to take this course of action tells me that they don’t actually know that much about their own website. That might also explain why they never built out the tooling to begin with.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mlyle</author><text>The richest part here is where spez refers to moderators as a &amp;quot;landed gentry&amp;quot;:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nbcnews.com&amp;#x2F;tech&amp;#x2F;tech-news&amp;#x2F;reddit-protest-blackout-ceo-steve-huffman-moderators-rcna89544&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nbcnews.com&amp;#x2F;tech&amp;#x2F;tech-news&amp;#x2F;reddit-protest-blacko...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;“And I think, on Reddit, the analogy is closer to the landed gentry: The people who get there first get to stay there and pass it down to their descendants, and that is not democratic.”&lt;p&gt;What does that make spez relative to the constituents in his community?</text></comment>
<story><title>Reddit is removing moderators that protest by taking their communities private</title><url>https://old.reddit.com/r/ModCoord/comments/14aeq5j/new_admin_post_if_a_moderator_team_unanimously/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>janalsncm</author><text>Reddit could have avoided all of this years ago by building out the tools that moderators claim to need. Instead, they relied on third parties to create them. Doing this would have nullified mods’ strongest justification for protesting. While removing 3rd party apps is certainly annoying for users, mods are what keep the site functioning.&lt;p&gt;The fact that Reddit chose to take this course of action tells me that they don’t actually know that much about their own website. That might also explain why they never built out the tooling to begin with.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Accujack</author><text>&amp;gt;The fact that Reddit chose to take this course of action tells me that they don’t actually know that much about their own website. That might also explain why they never built out the tooling to begin with.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s seemed like that for years.   They&amp;#x27;ve had strong reasons to develop the site for years.   The two main things they&amp;#x27;ve done are build an app for phones and spend a relatively long time creating a &amp;quot;new&amp;quot; UI that changes the look of the site and provides more advertising space but has no major changes to the way the site works.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s like they don&amp;#x27;t have any idea how to actually develop the site, and they&amp;#x27;re limited to doing window dressing.</text></comment>