I’ve never been an active Redditor, but there are people discussing my open source software on Reddit, so I’ve answered questions there on a good number of occasions.
That my informative and completely rule-abiding posts can be made unavailable at the whim of some community mods while the site is still alive feels like a betrayal. These mods don’t own my posts. No complaint if Reddit goes the way of Digg and takes everything with it.
That sounds naive. Your contributions were only needed and possible because of the volunteers that built the community you participated in. These mode don't own your posts, you can publish them anywhere you like after the community is gone. If you rely on an unpaid commercial entity to preserve your content forever I have bad news for you.
My contributions were possible because I and a bunch of other non-mods contributed. As I said, I expect the commercial entity to preserve my content until the entity decides not to, not some random third party.
My prior experience moderating other forums tells me the contribution of these community moderators are often way exaggerated and usually easily replaceable. Some form personality cults and periodic rotation would actually be a good thing.
Pretty sure taking the subreddit private as a form of protest is an unintended abuse of "delegated responsibility", and they can take that back at any time. Which is what they are considering anyway if gp is to be believed.
You think that people Reddit would have to appoint on such short notice with no experience of the prior community will be _less_ likely to go on power trips?
Yeah... if unpaid mods get screwed over and their reasonable tools destroyed, if greedy IPOism rules and starts price gouging third parties on short notice, and if there is a crack-CEO who even goes so far as manipulating other's posts in the backend to make users look bad - all fine. They all knew they were operating on a platform where they should have expected this. But while I'm in no way an active user, but my some comments I made become unavailabe, gosh I will be angry!!! Lol (:
I’ve never been an active Redditor, but there are people discussing my open source software on Reddit, so I’ve answered questions there on a good number of occasions.
That my informative and completely rule-abiding posts can be made unavailable at the whim of some community mods while the site is still alive feels like a betrayal. These mods don’t own my posts. No complaint if Reddit goes the way of Digg and takes everything with it.