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    Brilliant work by that team! Either reddit has to violate its own rules (which sadly they can, by deleting all NSFW content and removing the flag), or let the mods go.

    And if they let the mods go, other giant subs can do the same thing in order to safely go NSFW.

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      deleting all NSFW

      Which means they’ll have to moderate, i.e. pay for moderators :)

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          I mean … I agree for sure but when I think of paid mods I think o f how shitty they do their jobs in facebook and snapchat and am like yea they should be paid to ru na functioning sub/site but not to just watch people be awful to one another.

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        It looks like the current plan is just to archive subreddits, turn off comments, and leave them public until the IPO.

        Unless you happen to be r/programming of course and someone noticed the ChatGPT bots that seem to consistently be posting statements supportive of the admins. Then we got to force the subreddit to private immediately.

        Unrelated segue, did you know that Sam Altman, current CEO of OpenAI, responsible for ChatGPT, was a long time reddit board member, and despite claims that he left last year, is still listed as being on the board of reddit?

        Also, anyone else find it weird that in a lot of the threads talking about the protests on reddit… While the most upvoted comments usually favor the admins, if you look at the sheer number of comments speaking out on a lot of major threads and don’t worry about the upvote/downvote ratio, the number of comments in favor of the protests near completely dwarfs the number of comments in favor of the admins. Just another interesting data point.

        It’s almost like there was a way for someone who owned the website to manipulate things in their favor and then call in a favor from someone with an interest in the company to help them do a very poor job of making it seem like it was all justified by the community.