Or you're wrong and there's an actual reason that 90% of the subreddits went on strike such that any new mods wouldn't accept these conditions either. Like you really think people are so power hungry they'd sign up to do this for free while being restricted to using only one finger to do all of the work or something absurd like that? No, there are limits.
> Like you really think people are so power hungry they'd sign up to do this for free while being restricted to using only one finger to do all of the work or something absurd like that?
Isn't that exactly what people have been doing for well over a decade?
No, third parties made tools for them (and some automated things themselves.) Now those tools are being taken away from them. They would basically have to pay to be mods to continue doing things the way they were being done. That's my understanding of the situation anyway.
then resigning would have been the way to go. shutting off access to the knowledge base others contributed to is a power play
if you volunteer at a dog shelter, and find you don't agree with some of their practices anymore. do you stop volunteering? or do you just set all the dogs free
No, strikes have always been the way to effectively deal with these things. Setting the dogs free is not a strike. You can read up on how effective strikes have been executed ethically when critical care is involved; this isn't one of them though. It's naive to call it a "power play" though since literally every alternative by every actor involved is a "power play", just some are more effective than others.
