I understand that the mods that joined this protest feel like users are "hijacking" their protest movement, but I think it was inevitable because users have legitimate grievances as well, and they don't have the power that the moderators do to get the attention of those who run reddit, unless they just leave, which ends up being a "Pyrrhic victory."
On my sub, we asked the users and with their overwhelming approval, we shut down. If you do a good mod job, you go with the users and vice-versa.
Maybe subs like FatPeopleHate needed to go for legitimate reasons, but there was no actual proof presented of what they were being accused of. The admins just said, "It's happening, so the subs have to go."
The part that was hard to swallow for me and plenty of others was "Why them and not all the rest of the hate crap?". I banned white supremacists yesterday. They're super easy to spot because they come to your sub trying to convince you to keep white (oh sorry, it's "european" now) and they are subscribed to a bunch of white power subs. Why is that acceptable to reddit?
On my sub, we asked the users and with their overwhelming approval, we shut down. If you do a good mod job, you go with the users and vice-versa.
The part that was hard to swallow for me and plenty of others was "Why them and not all the rest of the hate crap?". I banned white supremacists yesterday. They're super easy to spot because they come to your sub trying to convince you to keep white (oh sorry, it's "european" now) and they are subscribed to a bunch of white power subs. Why is that acceptable to reddit?