Reddit decides if a community is NSFW — not the moderators.

Reddit is sending strongly-worded messages to moderators of certain subreddits that are marked as NSFW (Not Safe For Work), telling them to remove the tag or face being removed.

  • sacbuntchris@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11615·
    2 years ago

    When forced to make a choice between power or their principles, Reddit moderators are overwhelmingly choosing to abandon the latter.

      • Reliant1087@lemmy.worldEnglish
        37·
        2 years ago

        I wish people would take a more subtle approach. Have a pinned post saying that mods have moved the community to the lemmy one with the link, and have a bot reply to new posts saying the community has shifted and how to post there with a few linked resources. I’ve seen this strategy used successfully in many subreddits to get people to discord or some other platform.

        • trifictional@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          2 years ago

          I remember when the female dating strategy sub did this rather successfully.

          They were about to get banned anyway for the incel-like behaviour and took it upon themselves to switch platforms.

    • Ryumast3r@lemmy.worldEnglish
      28·
      2 years ago

      Are they really? They dedicate their free time to give reddit their power. Reddit is now yelling at them to give power back to themselves despiteb years of saying the opposite.

      • TwilightVulpine@kbin.social
        301·
        2 years ago

        I thought people on the Fediverse would be more appreciative of people doing volunteer work to maintain online communities but seems like a lot of users only think of mods when they get moderated or banned, not when the community is healthy and free from garbage.

    • Anders429@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      2 years ago

      It is rather short-sighted. There is no way Reddit could easily replace all of the moderators, and it would be chaos if they removed all of them at once, but Reddit threatening them works because they know they’re scared of losing control of their communities.