The protests get even more creative. PoliticalHumor mods have set it so that if you subscribe to the community you can now do moderator actions through comments.
No more “Landed Gentry” here, just a total shitshow of deleted comments and lack of cohesive moderation.
They can’t ban all of us
Looks like the landed gentry gave the proletariate the memes of production.
I’ll see myself out…
Please, stay, my liege :-D
Spez later revealed an exciting new idea for a system where users will be able to vote moderators out of their positions and install new ones. This type of pure democracy on a site like reddit is bound to be wildly successful and incorruptible. But, there’s only one problem: At the pace it takes reddit to develop new mod tools and systems, it’ll be years before such a system is ready. That clearly will not do in a society built on instant gratification.
That is why the r/PoliticalHumor mod team would like to announce that starting today we are bringing pure democracy to the subreddit: All users are now mods, and as such, are part of the “Landed Gentry”. Welcome to the club.
That’s brilliant!! 1 million and 500 thousands users, hilarious.
That is incredible. It’s hilarious, it’s satirical, it’s a sharp criticism and it absolutely hammers the stupidity of every Reddit statement home.
What a great team.
@dingus this is my favorite protest so far and I love how creative subreddit mods are getting - one last salting of the earth before they quit the site for good!
it really is very refreshing. I am oddly comforted by seeing there’s still a fighting spirit among many internet users
This is a great protest technique that I think everyone can get behind because it’s fun. It might actually increase engagement in the short term as everyone wants to mess around with it, but in the long term if this stays active it hurts the subs actual usability.
@Skray @dingus @tensquiggles It’s both really funny and entirely ruining the user experience - makes Reddit think the protest failed short term While making it more powerful in the long run
I especially love that this is going to give all other subreddits that are still in protest the idea of doing the same thing, or build on the idea. genius.
I think spez forgot that Redditors will burn it down just for the show.
We’ve all been saying for years that we all hate Reddit desire using it daily. To u/spez’s surprise, we weren’t lying, we just didn’t have a good excuse to destroy it at the time.
ON THIS DAY, WE ARE ALL 4CHAN!
I’ll bring the marshmallows!
Nice idea, but I don’t think you want all these toxic fumes in your tasty marshmallows…
Not exactly what happened they made a bot that will take a limited set of commands but you not actually a mod. It’s more of a joke (obviously). All you can really do is lock and unlock and remove comments for people under a certain score
It doesn’t matter IMO, it’s very smart and hilarious nonetheless, their post about it is a masterpiece.
Me reading this:
Spez retaliation coming in…
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From each according to his ability, to each according to his memes.
Thank you for this hahaha
Memarcy the one true government!
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I am itching so much for the perfect episode of John Oliver’s Last Week Tonight commemorating the most absurd but effective protest in histor, sounding off the whole mess of a situation and poking some more at spez. It’ll be a feast.
God the timing is awful with this and the writer strike going on. I really hope they come to an agreement, first and foremost so the writers get paid properly and the other things they’ve asked for but I can’t lie and say I don’t want a new episode of Last Week Tonight covering all the reddit drama. I just really hope the strike doesn’t last so long that it’s not news enough to put on the show.
Outstanding move. If more subreddits did this it would very quickly overload Reddits servers with API requests.
In 2006 I was named Time’s Person of the Year. Today I selected to moderate my first subreddit.
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Oh my god. How can they even do that. I stand in awe, this is flawless. Please god, let the news get hold of this one.
It looks like they’ve done it through automod actions, so if you type a comment like “!lock” automod will lock the thread for you. Other things like downvoting a comment to below -8 results in the user in question receiving a temporary ban. Apparently they are hard at work on new commands to let all users run roughshod over the sub.
Your wish is our command: Here are your new moderator permissions.
- To lock the comments on any post, simply comment !lock as a top-level comment on any post.
- To unlock the comments on any post, vote the AutoModerator stickied comment on each post high enough, and comments will be unlocked.
- To lock any comment on any post, reply to it with “!lock”.
- To temporarily ban any user, simply get their comment or post to a -8 score.
- To remove any submission, reply to a submission with a top level comment of !remove. Must have sufficient subreddit-level karma.
How can they even do that.
I’m sure the API helps.
lol burn
Now this is a comment I can “Chef’s Kiss” to.
Technically u/AutoModerator uses the API
This is honestly my favorite. All the concern trolls saying there are millions of people who would love to be mods now have the opportunity.
The inmates are running the asylum.
This is the most hilarious one!
Giga democracy
Anarchism. If everyone’s a mod, then no one is.
