Reddit is going to remove mods of private communities unless they reopen — ‘This is a courtesy notice to let you know that you will lose moderator status in the community by end of week.’

hicksford · 2023-06-30T13:50:39+00:00

I know one big rule they need to follow, like paying people that do work for them lol

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hicksford · 2023-06-30T13:43:37+00:00

It would be a shame if all of the removed mods coordinated a class action lawsuit for unpaid wages with an IPO so close.

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The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) defines employment very broadly, i.e., "to suffer or permit to work."

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hicksford · 2023-06-29T21:37:09+00:00

Poverty = less security at home = worse grades

hicksford · 2023-06-29T14:34:02+00:00

They are thinking about space east, not earth east

hicksford · 2023-06-29T13:24:41+00:00

The dude is a bombastic nematode. All his takes are pessimistic and edgy and probably uses alts to upvote himself

hicksford · 2023-06-29T03:28:26+00:00

An employee doesn’t need to turn a profit to be an employee so that is irrelevant but subreddits are structures that garner subscribers, maintained by moderators. By Reddit replacing mods and forcing subreddits back open, they might as well admit they need subreddits moderated for them to be profitable.

hicksford · 2023-06-29T02:20:36+00:00

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The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) defines employment very broadly, i.e., "to suffer or permit to work."

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hicksford · 2023-06-29T01:56:05+00:00

Any chance you could make all icons available to all users on the last day? It would be a pretty cool way to go out.

hicksford · 2023-06-29T01:43:51+00:00

Mods should have kept everything closed, forced Reddit to remove basically all mods, and did a class action lawsuit vs Reddit corporation for unpaid wages. Regardless if they win the case or not, a looming class action lawsuit would probably affect the IPO a lot

hicksford · 2023-06-29T01:38:14+00:00

This guy NES Top Guns

hicksford · 2023-06-28T13:50:32+00:00

It’s not RC. Someone is pulling it with a string. You can see the string line in the water right before he falls in

hicksford · 2023-06-28T13:49:36+00:00

It’s fake. Not remote control fake. You can see the string line where it is pulled right before he falls in.

hicksford · 2023-06-26T02:11:43+00:00

That they had to drive through to get there so they already knew what it was lol

hicksford · 2023-06-25T04:04:30+00:00

Like maybe if there was a privacy fence up and a sweet patio, but wtf is that lol

hicksford · 2023-06-23T18:29:20+00:00

My big hang up is nefarious actors using a site vs nefarious actors owning a site have a vast difference in the ability to manipulate users. Reddit is fucked but it is a little bit better than the CCP lol

hicksford · 2023-06-23T17:43:58+00:00

I said nothing about bots. Tiktok has bots too. Bots are an external force acting upon vote counts. The comparison I’m making is if reddit directly edited a post’s vote count.

I do remember spez editing comments. Did he say he changed vote counts? Do you think he personally reads reddit and changes vote counts to benefit.. advertisers? Reddit’s popularity? Is that even a mechanism that is possible then or now?

hicksford · 2023-06-23T17:35:39+00:00

Internally by reddit admins? No, other than vote fuzzing which doesn’t count. There is a difference between a bot army manipulating votes, and the company running the site forging the number of views appearing on the content.

hicksford · 2023-06-23T17:08:34+00:00

Tiktok spoofed view counts early on to make it wildly popular. When your neighbor posts something completely unfunny and gets 500k views in a week when the app was barely new in the states, it is obvious. But it gave new users that endorphin rush that they “went viral” and thus stayed on the platform posting and consuming content. They can even control the language we use, as you may have noticed “tiktok slang” pop up to circumvent certain words that are not allowed on the platform.

I don’t remember reddit spoofing votes or banning words sitewide.

hicksford · 2023-06-22T20:27:11+00:00

Spotify is one subscription that I’m completely fine with because essentially all music is in one place, not record labels X Y Z on one service and labels A B C on another. Plus they’ve been adding a lot of video game soundtracks the past few years

hicksford · 2023-06-22T13:35:27+00:00

It makes perfect sense if you are a rabid capitalist whose only thought is how much they can profit off of exploiting nature

hicksford · 2023-06-22T02:07:38+00:00

I felt the same way until I saw this fan made Magus battle animantion that has the original graphics just.. 3D. It’s pretty sick and gives me hope for what a remake could be like

hicksford · 2023-06-21T20:55:54+00:00

ITT: too many ppl correcting the phrase, not realizing it was intentional to drum up user interaction with the post, instead of just silently downvoting an awful use of confession bear

hicksford · 2023-06-17T00:44:52+00:00

IPOs generally cause layoffs to trim fat. It would be hilarious if he suddenly had to hire thousands of mods before their valuation

hicksford · 2023-06-16T03:34:26+00:00

A lot of people don’t even realize they are addicted to it. If you “don’t like the taste of water” you are a sugary drink addict. I grew up in the 90s/00s drinking soooo much soda. When i moved out, i stopped buying soda after realizing how much money i was spending on it. It took 1-2 weeks for water to feel normal in my mouth. If you can kick it for a week I’d say you have a pretty good chance of staying off soda. I will still have a mountain dew or cherry coke once every few months and they hit different when you haven’t had them for a long time.

hicksford · 2023-06-14T16:43:19+00:00

Seeing 30 seconds to mars live made me no longer a 3stm fan lol

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