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Reddit demands moderators remove NSFW labels, or else
Many communities on Reddit have used the NSFW (Not Safe For Work) designation in some form to protest Reddit’s new API pricing, which forced apps like Apollo and rif is fun for Reddit to shut down, as well as a recent pattern of behavior toward its unpaid volunteer moderators that they find “threatening.” Subreddits, including r/PICS and r/military, had made the NSFW switch, pointing to language from Reddit websites to justify the change.
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"or else" has always been a trigger for me in life. Never had real consequences and I got away with a lot. And what would Reddit be or do without their unpaid moderators? Maybe it's time for a new label, as message from the moderators to Reddit: GFYS. Go Fuck Your Self. :-)
Completely agree, Reddit is shooting themselves in the foot. If they ban moderators who don't comply, then Reddit will be without moderators for those topics, which is more of a problem for Reddit than for these unpaid moderators.
They are totally missing the forest for the trees here and it's going to bite them really hard.