Several subreddits had begun allowing porn and not safe for work content to protest Reddit. In response, the platform has removed entire moderator teams from the affected subreddits.
Reddit further told PCMag: "It’s not OK to show people NSFW content when they don’t want to see it. In line with our Moderator Code of Conduct
Mods tagged subs NSFW before allowing people to spam porn, and reddit admins have been so stupid they turned subs back to SFW without removing porn first, so now anyone can see porn where they’re not supposed to.
This is correct. This article is reddit-approved propaganda. People were not shown nsfw content without their consent until reddit admins removed the subs’ nsfw status and set them back to sfw. This article also doesn’t account for the fact that subs’ own users voted to change the content of the subs, and then reddit claimed that subs must remain open and available to the users who have formed communities on them. The communities decided they wanted a different type of community, and reddit said no.
I wish people would stop working for free for this multi-billion dollar corporation so they’d actually have to pay for moderation and not get to profit off of the free labor of its users.
Very few magazines unfortunately are accounting for the fact that everything mods are doing now was voted upon by the community, spez is spreading a lot of propaganda.
I too wish mods would quit moderating altogether, there were more than 20 thousands participating in the blackout, imagine how much it would cost reddit to replace even a small part of them.
What they failed to mention too was that some communities (IIRC, it was r/mildlyinteresting) approved NSFW content that was only risqué pictures of vegetables, like fruits shaped like genitalia.
This article is just a rewording of u/Spez propaganda. It wouldn’t surprise me if Ziff-Davis, owners of PCMag, are investors on Reddit. Condé Nast certainly is, which explain why yesterdays article on Ars-Technica shares the same propagandistic tones.
Apparently Mods “incorrectly” marking their communities as NSFW (after having the community vote to do so as part of ongoing protests) is a violation of Content Policy and Mod Code of Conduct… but how can it be incorrect if the community chose to change the direction of the sub-reddit to NSFW?
As you say, I’d argue Admins changing them back to SFW without removing the porn, such that ADs show alongside user submitted pornography is the REAL Content Policy breach, but of course the Mods are going to get the blame for that one too for doing what the users want rather than what Reddit wants.
The Mods should just quit, all of them. Let Reddit figure out how to replace their 1,000’s of free workers on the fly.
wasn’t there also an issue that the front page doesn’t know about NSFW, and communities have to be manually blacklisted from the front when they are NSFW?
I think I read somewhere that, due to this, some subs that were SFW before, and thus not on the blacklist, got porn on the front page
it looks like Reddit just implement new policy on whole site maybe to save time and less headache instead check the subs manually. But, yeah, it is quite mess-up.
Mods tagged subs NSFW before allowing people to spam porn, and reddit admins have been so stupid they turned subs back to SFW without removing porn first, so now anyone can see porn where they’re not supposed to.
Who’s breaking the code of conduct?
This is correct. This article is reddit-approved propaganda. People were not shown nsfw content without their consent until reddit admins removed the subs’ nsfw status and set them back to sfw. This article also doesn’t account for the fact that subs’ own users voted to change the content of the subs, and then reddit claimed that subs must remain open and available to the users who have formed communities on them. The communities decided they wanted a different type of community, and reddit said no.
I wish people would stop working for free for this multi-billion dollar corporation so they’d actually have to pay for moderation and not get to profit off of the free labor of its users.
Very few magazines unfortunately are accounting for the fact that everything mods are doing now was voted upon by the community, spez is spreading a lot of propaganda.
I too wish mods would quit moderating altogether, there were more than 20 thousands participating in the blackout, imagine how much it would cost reddit to replace even a small part of them.
Great foreshadowing of how chaotic it will get when they start to replace actual mods with Spez’s imposters.
What they failed to mention too was that some communities (IIRC, it was r/mildlyinteresting) approved NSFW content that was only risqué pictures of vegetables, like fruits shaped like genitalia.
This article is just a rewording of u/Spez propaganda. It wouldn’t surprise me if Ziff-Davis, owners of PCMag, are investors on Reddit. Condé Nast certainly is, which explain why yesterdays article on Ars-Technica shares the same propagandistic tones.
Apparently Mods “incorrectly” marking their communities as NSFW (after having the community vote to do so as part of ongoing protests) is a violation of Content Policy and Mod Code of Conduct… but how can it be incorrect if the community chose to change the direction of the sub-reddit to NSFW?
As you say, I’d argue Admins changing them back to SFW without removing the porn, such that ADs show alongside user submitted pornography is the REAL Content Policy breach, but of course the Mods are going to get the blame for that one too for doing what the users want rather than what Reddit wants.
The Mods should just quit, all of them. Let Reddit figure out how to replace their 1,000’s of free workers on the fly.
did you see what r/politicalhumor did? they made every subscribed account a mod
Could doing that be a violation of the law in some places? Things like showing porn to minors maybe?
Reddit admins are acting like the GOP: Rules for thee, not for me!
wasn’t there also an issue that the front page doesn’t know about NSFW, and communities have to be manually blacklisted from the front when they are NSFW?
I think I read somewhere that, due to this, some subs that were SFW before, and thus not on the blacklist, got porn on the front page
I don’t know, but if that’s the case, reddit code is even more sh*tty than I thought, seems almost a miracle the platform can work at all lol.
it looks like Reddit just implement new policy on whole site maybe to save time and less headache instead check the subs manually. But, yeah, it is quite mess-up.