AllonzeeLV@vlemmy.net to

World News@beehaw.org · 2 years ago

Reddit CEO says the mods leading a punishing blackout are too powerful and he will change the site's rules to weaken them

www.businessinsider.com

cross-posted to:
technews

284

Reddit CEO says the mods leading a punishing blackout are too powerful and he will change the site's rules to weaken them

www.businessinsider.com

AllonzeeLV@vlemmy.net to

World News@beehaw.org · 2 years ago

cross-posted to:
technews

Steve Huffman said he has plans to change the site's rules so that users have the power to vote out moderators, following a 48-hour protest blackout.

Chat

lowleveldata@programming.dev
link
fedilink
arrow-up
23·
2 years ago

poison the well

It’s already happening. /r/pics restricted the sub to sexy pics of John Oliver only after a poll.
- Shhalahr@beehaw.org
  link
  fedilink
  arrow-up
  8·
  2 years ago
  Hah! That’s great!
  - yesTHEalex@lemm.ee
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    3·
    2 years ago
    r/gifs too

World News@beehaw.org

news@beehaw.org

You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: [email protected]

Breaking news from around the world.

News that is American but has an international facet may also be posted here.

Guidelines for submissions:

Where possible, post the original source of information.
- If there is a paywall, you can use alternative sources or provide an archive.today, 12ft.io, etc. link in the body.
Do not editorialize titles. Preserve the original title when possible; edits for clarity are fine.
Do not post ragebait or shock stories. These will be removed.
Do not post tabloid or blogspam stories. These will be removed.
Social media should be a source of last resort.

These guidelines will be enforced on a know-it-when-I-see-it basis.

For US News, see the US News community.

This community’s icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

Visibility: Public

This community can be federated to other instances and be posted/commented in by their users.

266 users / day
571 users / week
1.07K users / month
2.75K users / 6 months
2 local subscribers
22.1K subscribers
3.1K Posts
18.7K Comments
Modlog