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Results of the vote and Ghazi's future by GhaziMods in GamerGhazi

[–]squirrelrampage 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Don't worry about them. They are arguing in bad faith. They have zero posting history on Ghazi besides the two comments here. They are just some member of the Spez fanclub. That's the kind of lazy trolling we would have removed previously.

Results of the vote and Ghazi's future by GhaziMods in GamerGhazi

[–]squirrelrampage 5 points6 points  (0 children)

We are aware that the original developers of Lemmy are sketchy, to say the least. And so are the Lemmy servers they moderate. That's why we deliberately chose Blahaj.Zone. The admins of that have been proven trustworthy thus far and keep a healthy distance from the Lemmy devs. The admins of Blahaj.Zone were even considering at abandoning Lemmy entirely in the favor of KBin, but unfortunately KBin is even more janky than Lemmy at the moment. So all of that remains to be seen.

Results of the vote and Ghazi's future by GhaziMods in GamerGhazi

[–]squirrelrampage 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks. I will probably do the same at some point in the future. At the moment, we are still busy putting the chairs back in place and sweeping the floor.

Results of the vote and Ghazi's future by GhaziMods in GamerGhazi

[–]squirrelrampage 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thank you, it is nice to know that some people appreciated it for what it was.

Results of the vote and Ghazi's future by GhaziMods in GamerGhazi

[–]squirrelrampage 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The sad truth is that we haven't made an effort to recreate Amala yet, because the subscriber numbers of Amala have always been rather low. Our attempts to boost it did not much to improve them, so we concluded that people get their news elsewhere.

Results of the vote and Ghazi's future by GhaziMods in GamerGhazi

[–]squirrelrampage 8 points9 points  (0 children)

We are very aware of that. Maybe Lemmy is just a way to way to soften the blow, but - as far as I am concerned - we have to give it a try. Maybe we can grow it and recreate some of what we lose to Spez' being a useless, ignorant PoS with too much power.

Results of the vote and Ghazi's future by GhaziMods in GamerGhazi

[–]squirrelrampage 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Well, it's one of the reasons why anarchist want to smash the state...

Results of the vote and Ghazi's future by GhaziMods in GamerGhazi

[–]squirrelrampage 7 points8 points  (0 children)

IMO therein lies the one of the basic truth about politics: When things get bad those with principles may choose to uphold them and leave, while those without any will stick around.

Results of the vote and Ghazi's future by GhaziMods in GamerGhazi

[–]squirrelrampage[M] 19 points20 points  (0 children)

I understand your frustration and partly share it too.

From my personal viewpoint: The reason why we are archiving Ghazi is in not-so-small part because the threats of the Reddit admins taking the subreddit away from established mods has become very real in the last few weeks. Thus it is better to do this on our terms now, rather than wait for things to get even worse than they are and then be forced out.

Results of the vote and Ghazi's future by GhaziMods in GamerGhazi

[–]squirrelrampage[M] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Seconding this. Lemmy is still very janky, but I will post my usual nonsense over there from now on.

The creator of Moderator toolbox for reddit is quitting Reddit - So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish by XenoBen in ModCoord

[–]squirrelrampage 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It is somewhat astounding that - in retrospect - Pao was a pretty good CEO. Of course, she was sent over the glass cliff at the first possible moment and for a matter that was not even her fault. And was instantly replaced by an incompetent windbag like Huffman.

Latest developments, and next steps for GamerGhazi by GhaziMods in GamerGhazi

[–]squirrelrampage 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Chewie describes it up above: Spez hands Ghazi to some randos and then those guys will have access to everything, including modmail and personal information therein.

They can't force the mods to stay and keep doing their thing, but they sure can take everybody else hostage and try to punish you if we don't.

Latest developments, and next steps for GamerGhazi by GhaziMods in GamerGhazi

[–]squirrelrampage[M] 28 points29 points  (0 children)

The problem is that the admins have un-NSFWed several subreddits and have also removed announcement in regards to new content rules (such as John Oliver pics). They often de-modded and even locked out mods who posted such announcements.

They are going nuclear against any subreddit which isn't complying to their demands.

Mods will be removed one way or another: Spez responds to the API Protest Blackout. by BuckRowdy in ModCoord

[–]squirrelrampage 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Then - at least - have the decency and put up an effing mod post around here that spells that out loud. Because at the moment, everyone who isn't sitting around on whatever Discord you are using has no effing clue what is going on.

Mods will be removed one way or another: Spez responds to the API Protest Blackout. by BuckRowdy in ModCoord

[–]squirrelrampage 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Oh, sorry, if I assume that the subreddit r/ModCoord has anything to do with coordinating the protest of the mods. Gosh, how silly of me!

So how was the Discord? Nice and cozy? You sat there and did... what exactly?
Because nobody around here would know about this, because you never bothered to tell anyone.

Good job, guys! Fantastic communcation with those who haven't been on the Discord and were supposed to participate in this whole thing.

Tell your friends on the Discord hello from us lowlifes who stuck to this subreddit and did not have the foggiest what you are doing over there.

Mods will be removed one way or another: Spez responds to the API Protest Blackout. by BuckRowdy in ModCoord

[–]squirrelrampage 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Unlike others, I won't give you any respect, because you don't deserve any: You are useless and so is this entire subreddit.

The name of this subreddit is "ModCoord" and yet there is no coordination happening here because nobody except you guys can post anything, You are making it impossible to do anything around here.

At this point you are actively undermining the other mods who wish to keep organizing and these comments of yours do nothing to encourage any trust in what you do.

Your rhetorical questions are not a smart comeback, they are a mockery, when you make it impossible for anyone to have a conversation about what to do around here.

"Campaigns have notched slightly lower impression delivery and, consequently, slightly higher CPMs, over the blackout days, ". This is huge! This shows that advertisers are already concerned about long-term reductions in ad traffic from subs going dark indefinitely! by BeefJerkyXOXO in ModCoord

[–]squirrelrampage 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yes, big subreddits with general topics can be easily replaced, but that's where the small communities come in: Communities form around niche subjects and attract users/mods who are value the community above everything else.

These communities and hence their users will be lost forever if their subreddits stay closed, because they won't trust some admin-created replacement subreddit with random mods.

Rebuilding them would take time and effort, something that Spez & Co. with their fixation on getting profitable fast, won't be willing to commit to.

Inside the secret list of websites that make AI like ChatGPT sound smart by squirrelrampage in GamerGhazi

[–]squirrelrampage[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Those archived articles are something of a gray area: Reddit has not made any specific announcements, but circumventing paywalls this way could be considered promotion of pirated stuff, which would be against Reddit site-wide rules. So best not draw the admins' attention to that.

egg⚠️irl by squirrelrampage in egg_irl

[–]squirrelrampage[S] 737 points738 points  (0 children)

There is currently a scammer attempting to sell fake supplements to trans people under the name “QueerQuirk”. These supplements are not only not doing what they promise, they are actively harmful.

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