• BrightCandle@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It’s precisely what everyone said would happen. Spez and the Reddit team seem not to realise how important mods and users were to their business! The number of people who will do the thankless task of dealing with the internet’s undercurrent of horrendous behaviour are few.

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      It’s precisely what everyone said would happen.

      I don’t disagree with your general point, but I remember that there were many people (on reddit, but also on lemmy) who said there would be lots of power-hungry redditors just waiting to take over and that the admins would thus have no trouble at all finding replacements.

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        1 year ago

        Let’s see how many are willing to go through all that regurgitating shit and survive a month in their new profession.

        • Misconduct@lemmy.world
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          It’s never a good idea to set yourself up to be disappointed in humans because you’re gonna be disappointed lol

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        Those were the same shit-stirrers, and they don’t care if they’re right or not as long as you can be wrong about something. They’re just waiting for that something and they’ll start hooting about how smart they are again.

    • SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      It’s not recognizing as such, but refusing to admit someone not directly under the magnificent leadership of the CEO can do anything important or have good ideas on how to run things. Toxic Techbro culture.

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        To techbros, people doing voluntary work for them is something to be exploited, not rewarded. They see the mods as saps as they would never do anything for free.

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      1 year ago

      I wonder if their plan was to use chatgpt or some AI to pick up the slack with moderation but set things into motion before realizing that AI isn’t quite there yet and would need human eyes to verify actions otherwise the AI would have banned everyone or not enough people.

      I don’t know which scenario is more amusing, the one where they had a plan that failed or the one where they just thought everything would work out fine and what we saw was the plan.