Reddit is recovering after Moderator led black-outs...
Jul 4, 2015 20:37:53 GMT -6
Daitengu, Glencairn, and 5 more like this
Post by Deleted on Jul 4, 2015 20:37:53 GMT -6
It seems Reddit has been the scene of discontent among Mods here recently and they were not shy about showing it!
I've never really gotten into Reddit but I know it's one of the leaders for traffic and discussion on the Internet today. It sounds like they ought to show their volunteers a bit more love?
Source
Interesting situation to see and I figured it would be of interest to everyone over here. I'm glad we have such a close community here for having so few issues along these lines.
Almost 300 discussion areas, called subreddits, were marked private and required moderator approval to view on Friday, the New York Times reported. The closures appeared to have started after Victoria Taylor, Reddit’s director of talent, was dismissed Thursday. Taylor had worked closely with volunteer moderators who, along with company employees known as administrators, manage the subreddits.
“Most of the subreddits are back online,” Heather Wilson, a spokeswoman for the San Francisco-based company, said Saturday in e-mail. “We think a few may still be out but the great majority have come back up since yesterday.”
“Most of the subreddits are back online,” Heather Wilson, a spokeswoman for the San Francisco-based company, said Saturday in e-mail. “We think a few may still be out but the great majority have come back up since yesterday.”
I've never really gotten into Reddit but I know it's one of the leaders for traffic and discussion on the Internet today. It sounds like they ought to show their volunteers a bit more love?
“As much as Victoria is loved, this reaction is not all a result of her departure: there is a feeling among many of the moderators of reddit that the admins do not respect the work that is put in by the thousands of unpaid volunteers who maintain the communities of the 9,656 active subreddits, which they feel is expressed by, among other things, the lack of communication between them and the admins, and their disregard of the thousands of mods who keep reddit’s communities going.”
Interesting situation to see and I figured it would be of interest to everyone over here. I'm glad we have such a close community here for having so few issues along these lines.
