<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>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></item><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>matheusmoreira</author><text>I can&amp;#x27;t believe I&amp;#x27;m reading this bullshit about democracy and &amp;quot;landed gentry&amp;quot; from a goddamn CEO of an advertising corporation who wants to literally monetize the eyeballs of every human being on his site, people who are only there because those &amp;quot;gentries&amp;quot; keep his site from turning to shit at no cost to him.</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>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></item><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>lamontcg</author><text>&amp;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;That is some hefty fucking projection from him.</text></comment>