On Thursday, just over two weeks after the protest began, Reddit said it would remove moderators of communities that were still holding out. They would reopen, one way or another. Reddit did make a few concessions along the way. The company said it would exempt accessibility-focused apps ...
The Reddit Blackout protesting the company's unpopular API changes is continuing, nearly five days after the "48-hour" action started on Monday. But, contrary to what Reddit is saying publicly, it seems like the company has had enough of the protests. On Friday, moderators of popular Reddit...
The blackout, supported by subreddit moderators and community voting, affects some of the most popular subreddits, including r/Aww, r/Music, r/Programming, and r/Futurology, which collectively have over 100 million members. That means you won't find what you're looking for if you go to ...
Throughout June, Reddit has been forced to deal with negative feedback to its decision to implement API access charges that effectively cut out popularthird-party appsthat Redditors use to access the site. Now, in an attempt to try and make the site's moderators happy, it is goin...
Thousands of subreddits are continuing to protest beyond the initial 48-hour blackout, as Reddit says it has no plans to back down from the changes it’s making to its API.
to be proud of our work. And so, in any moment, there’s a lot of noise outside, external noise: “Reddit should do this. Reddit should do that. Reddit shouldn’t do this. That was so stupid. Look what the CEO said.” In those moments, we just have to tune most of it out....
The same account that contacted moderators “reaching out to find out if any moderators currently on the mod team would be willing to take steps to reopen the community,” has also been going into NSFW communitiesand marking them SFW against the moderators’ wishes and without any noti...
“This is an issue that has been chronically inadequate for moderators of large subreddits reaching out to the admins over the years. Reddit is a great site with an even more amazing community, however it is frustrating to volunteer time to run a large subreddit and have ...
Reddit is expected to implement the API fee on June 19. It is unclear whether the blackout will change the minds of Reddit's management, but it may still send a message that the community is unhappy with potentially losing access to well-loved apps. ...
Despite this important role assigned by Reddit to the NSFW concept, only a few researchers have investigated the phenomenon of NSFW content in this social platform. Specifically, the authors of [3] studied the behavior of NSFW moderators, compared to SFW ones, during a specific Reddit moderator ...