For those of you unaware, reddit is going thru another cultural revolution. Many top mods of the largest subs are upset because they feel spez isn't cracking down on 'misinformation' strongly enough.<p>They have either blacked out their subs, or placed stickied post at the top of the subs. They use these stickied post to push their agenda and advocate that readers move to reddit-alternative sites.<p>If you, the causal reddit user, comments negatively against this (ie. "this post has nothing to do with the content of this sub and is harming the site"), the mods will ban you. In effect this is their scorched-earth policy: Destroy the experience for causal users until they get their way.<p>What are spez's realistic options here: (a) Capitulate, (b) Remove the mods, (c) Something else?
I challenge the premise of your question. Steve Huffman is able to do what he wants even to the point of altering statements made by someone else's account in an unpopular sub. [1]<p>He's no different than the mods that are lambasting him. If anything I'd say what's happening now is a consequence of his two-faced approach to free speech: "we're for free speech" when its in his personal interest and "we've never been a free speech company" when it doesn't. The most recent rule changes regarding who's defined as oppressed are a testament to that. The mods have simply copied and amplified that strategy by brigading or blockading subreddits they don't like using autobanning anyone who has posted in them.<p>In short Huffman (as well as Ohanian) has done this to himself.<p>And in my opinion it's good to have reddit alternative sites. Since Victoria was canned and Ellen Pao went on her crusade banning subreddits left and right (supposedly at insistence of Huffman and Ohanian), at least once every year afterwards there's been a massive purging of subreddits celebrated by a large swath of users until it happens to them or a sub of their political affiliation. While some might not like Voat, Ruqqus, Saiddit, etc. for their own personal (usually political) reasons, it would be hypocritical for someone to believe its wrong to splinter off into more specialized Reddit-likes when Reddit itself, massively gained from the Digg Exodus.<p>[1]<a href="https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/23/reddit-huffman-trump/" rel="nofollow">https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/23/reddit-huffman-trump/</a>
Let them cry and set them boundaries and explain to them that they can only influence content in the spaces they moderate themselves. Reddit should limit the amount of subs one person can moderate. Ignore the blacked out subs, it will lead people to better ones.<p>Ban them if they continue to advocate for others to be removed.