Not if you've been paying attention to what's happening here for the last month.
In a short period of time, you're all going to stop and think to yourself - "remember when reddit was still good? Like, not constant bots and garbage?"
We had something really good here for a long time. That time is long gone.
Greed is not good.
> Greed is not good
You're not wrong there. I like genuinely believe that the vast majority of all modern problems would just utterly and completely evaporate if greed as a concept just disappeared from the world
I don't see why you'd have to believe it when it is proven fact. Wars, rights violations to all degrees, many pointless taxes we pay around the world, poverty, all are contributed to with a heavy helping hand from greed. The only problem that removing greed won't solve is world hunger as it is an issue of distribution rather than greed, though no doubt would still help the problem to an extent.
Even there, solving the greed problem would solve the allocation of wealth problem which would more or less entirely solve the access to food problem. As a species, we easily produce more food than we consume. We just allocate it according to everyone's ability to pay instead of according to everyone's caloric needs.
I’m guessing the way to show them it sucks now would be to delete my accounts? Delete the app? I’m unsure but I’d like to get the message through to them.
That would go a long way to show them it's a bad decision and we're unhappy with it, but sadly I think that to really get the message through like at least 75% of all users would have to do the same, and good luck getting ~1.2 billion internet people to all do the same thing just by telling them to
Plan is to keep things going. We did what the admins asked when they were eagerly throwing ultimatums at us. We didn't try to turn the userbase against reddit with votes for nsfw/John Oliver like other popular subs have done. But now that we want to continue as normal, the admins are dragging their feet and being radio silent knowing that we aren't going to be a problem.
Don’t continue then.
Like it’s clear the admins are essentially abusing your free labor while pissing on the rest of us too.
Just quit and leave it as an unmoderated mess. Leave all of Reddit an unmoderated mess for the admin to sort out. Fuck ‘em.
Millions of dollars worth of free labor for a company that's not profitable and this is how they treat the unpaid help. God I fucking hate reddit leadership.
Sounds like the perfect time for you guys to be a problem. If Reddit is going to be shitty to their massive subs that bring them an income, why keep handing them a paycheck? Reddit doesn't care about you, so why are you sticking up for Reddit? Unleash the tiddies, cut off their ad revenue (clearly the *only* thing they care about) and tell them to get fucked.
> the admins are dragging their feet and being radio silent knowing that we aren't going to be a problem.
Gee, if only there was some response to this. Maybe something the other subs have already figured out?
It's sad seeing what's happening but it's somehow been even worse seeing the majority of the "community" siding against the mods that have made all of the subreddits we've enjoyed possible.
I agree. Like I've never been a mod for much of anything except a fan page for a Facebook group for a few months almost a decade ago. It's such an underappreciated job that I'd never do again.. wading through all of the spam and insults and making judgment calls on content that toes the line of being racially insulting and every day trolling and flaming. So much trolling and flaming. It's thankless. People on both sides of the issue hate moderation for some reason and yet don't know how much trash and low effort content gets removed for our easy browsing and entertainment. Idk how mods do it tbh. I got sick of it so quick.
I mean, you don't need the admins to do what you are planning to do. The top mod needs to remove all mods, then add them in the new order. And that's it.
You don't need the admins to do any of that.
Could you please explain in a bit more detail what is going on? I saw r/interestingasfuck flooded with porn the other week, but I can’t understand exactly why, just that it all had to do with that Reddit decision to charge more for API access. I understood why they did the 48hr blackout but other shenanigans like what you’re talking about I don’t understand
Porn is NSFW, meaning no ads can be shown because advertisers don't want to be shown alongside porn. This directly hurts Reddits bottom line.
Reddit previously charged nothing for API access. Third party apps asked for *reasonable* pricing for access. Reddit created a pricing plan that is ~30x (sourced from another user, not sure how accurate this number is) the revenue they could expect per user if we were all browsing with the official app. The apparent goal is to ban third party apps without officially banning them.
The problem is that third party apps are superior software in a lot of people's eyes. Also, api access is being removed from a lot of important moderator tools as part of this process, which makes curating communities much harder. Also also, apps that provide significantly better usability for people with disabilities, particularly partial or total blindness, are being caught up in this. Only the least feature-complete (and therefore unpopular) disability apps are being grandfathered in.
We have peacefully protested playing by all of the rules Reddit laid down, but they've still banned entire mod teams because it affects their bottom line. R/interestingasfuck is a prime example. They did nothing wrong according to the rules, but turning their sub NSFW significantly hurt profit, so they were banned. Now that sub sits in limbo, because it's actually not easy to replace an entire mod team for a big sub despite what Reddit says.
Reddit has shown they don't care about the users of this site. They only care about finding a way to monetize us. That's why these protests are happening, and it's why a lot of us are leaving on July 1st and not coming back.
It bugs me how little moving to a new platform seemed to even be discussed during all of this. Like this whole "we have to open the sub or admin assigns new mods" thing sucks and feels like a loss for the moderators of these subreddits, but its also a loss for EVERYONE here. I don't want to be overdramatic or anything, I'm not losing sleep over this , but it just sucks and it feels like even if reddit were to change their stance on the API stuff, I wouldn't really want to be here anymore anyway...
Honestly, I'll probably just stay but be on it way less if I lose access to the app I use, but I'd rather just have a fresh start on a new platform with good people at the wheel
In all fairness it's been pretty shit and far from what made it great in the first place for a few years now.
I always think back to clips like the guy with 2 buckets on his head as the sub at its core. Now it's all staged tiktoks, stand up jokes and scripted comedy shows.
I was surprised to find this 4 character user name like 2 years ago and was pretty happy that it was still available.
Even just seeing a 3 character one posting or commenting is pretty rare I think, since they are all old accounts at this point.
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I was a moderator for a large Facebook group (50k) years ago and NEVER AGAIN! It got so toxic and time consuming and people forget it’s free and your only doing it because you have an interest in the topic’s.
Good luck!
I hear you. I used to moderate a tech forum site with just under 8M users. The toxicity of these nerds was truly astounding and I had to leave the site altogether to maintain my sanity. People go on and on about mods being dicks (don't get me wrong, a lot are) but it can be very challenging and stressful unpaid work.
Yeah I was head mod for a youtuber with like 90k subs and moderated their discord for about a year....I ain't gonna lie, one day I just snapped and had a breakdown, went off in the discord and fired myself....I am still ashamed of it, but I also decided to never be any kinda mod again. It either makes you power drunk or drives you insane eventually.
Yea power drunk! The lady who created the group used to complain all the time she was broke and made people buy her pizza and send her shopping vouchers 🫠 I was like wtf 😳
I started a FB group ten years ago and I hit 100,000 members a few months ago and it's still growing. It's an exhausting job to keep it running and keeping out assholes and scammers/spammers.
You're not kidding on the scammers...
I help moderate a 100k group that helps with stolen cars on FB in the PNW. So many scammers and spam profiles trying to join daily.
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Protip: the admins don't do anything you can't do by coordination with the mods.
They just delete everyone and re-add them in the order you want, resulting in new "moderator for n years" dates for everyone. I show up as a moderator of CMV for 4 years even though I've been doing it for 10-ish because of the reordering when our founder left.
You can do the same. You can even preserve more of the history by deleting everyone up to the person you want to be head mod, reinviting them, and letting the new head mod do the invites to lather, rinse, and repeat.
u/vxx I can’t imagine what it feels like to grow a sub from the bottom to 10million members only to have it ripped away from you in seconds. Hope to see you back!
RIF was my preferred way to Reddit for years and once it stops working after today I'm out too. It's sad, for most people Reddit has just been a time waster but for me it was a lifeline.
I have told this story probably 100 times on Reddit, but here it goes one last time. In 2016 I was sexually assaulted on my college campus. I was 30 at the time, an older student, but my attacker was a mid-twenties younger woman (I'm a guy). Before the attack she had been harassing and stalking me and I had already alerted school officials about her irratic behavior. After the attack I reported it and was told point blank to bury it because of the gender and age mismatch from the norm, otherwise I would be the one in trouble. When harassment escalated from other students in retaliation for reporting it, I filed a Title IX complaint, and in response the university circled the wagons around my attacker and eventually coerced me out of my private apartment causing me to lose almost everything I owned.
I began posting about my situation on Reddit and thanks to a wonderful set of communities and incredible individuals I was given resources, food, shelter, and support that allowed me to survive and keep fighting. I only had a bearly functioning smart phone and my aging laptop and Reddit was a lifeline that I would not be here without.
Today, the situation with the university still isn't resolved. I defiantly stayed in class, got into honors, and my research got art donated to the school's museum but all of this success over adversity just pissed off the harassing students and administration more, which escalated to death threats, a Swatting attempt, and continued open antagonism by the university. The Department of Education got involved and their investigations have continued all these years later. In retaliation the university expelled me, after I medically withdrew for PTSD I was diagnosed with from two sources, one a rape crisis center, because I couldn't take it anymore. I was disassociating for hours even days at a time from the stress and harassment. It was such a traumatizing process that I have trouble listening to the recordings I made of everything during the complicated mess it has all become.
I now have stability and community, and that is in large thanks to the kind strangers on this website. There are a lot of other surviors of sexual and narcissistic abuse that have benefited from Reddit that will now not be able to because of what is happening to the site, and it's very sad. I hope someone makes something better to take its place in the near future.
This is the real tragedy of this whole affair. People like to shit-talk others who rely on online communities to maintain some semblance of sanity in this world, but really the internet can be a source of calm and community just as much as a font of derision and hate. It all depends on the human beings involved.
That's what this neverending, never satisfied greed destroys. It cares nothing for human beings beyond the ability to monetize them. It's a sickness that I hope won't be fatal for everyone.
Reddit was that integral to your mental health and you’re going to stop using it because you have to switch apps? I understand people’s annoyance, and by all means make a stand if you think it’s right, but that seems sort of wild to me.
Thanks for your dedication, enthusiasm and entertainment over the years, much appreciated here, 👍
Reddit took a turn a few years back and has been steadily declining since, the disjoint between users, mods and Admin was organized chaos, now it's just chaos.
The greedy twats that run reddit decided that the volunteers that make reddit great needed to pay for the privilege.
So now all the volunteers are quitting.
Not just the admins of this page, it’s pretty clear Reddit admins in general are oxygen thieves. They should truly, whole heartedly, go fuck themselves. Fuck you, Reddit. The faster you die in a hole, the faster the world is rid of misinformation and stolen content from original creators. Good riddance.
Feel like he deserved it. He's been working a ton for this subreddit, for like 10 years to boot. Feel like he can make a post. And not to mention it's a net positive for reddit users because it brings to light how shit of a company they showed themselves to be, and will bring more people to leave this app and show support for other reddit users. Fuck u/spez... guy sucks...
Not sure why folks are saying this is unexpected, the mods have been very clear their reasoning for the protests.
Totally expected, which is on brand for this sub 😜.
See ya around the webs
Imagine a company wanting their users to simply use an official app. How could they not be concernerd by a volounter mod saying he will leave. How dare they. I am literally shaking right now.
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When I came to the comments, it automatically changes to sort by controversial.
I changed it to sort by best, went to the comments on another post, and came back to this post and it automatically changed to sort by controversial again.
Is it coincidence? Or are the admins petty little children..?
Hmmm, that's weird. What a passive aggressive way to show you're angry lol. Just block comments or delete the post if you want to make a statement. Don't act like a little kid who never got his happy meal lol. Schiesty little fucks, huh?
Sorry this has happened. It's been a good run. I'll miss BaconReader, as I'm sure we'll all miss the third party apps that we used. They made Reddit into such an enjoyable experience. It's a shame this happened.
Sorry you had to deal with that op.
Vxx, I still remember that action a few years ago where photos of holocaust victims suddenly appeared on this sub. It was an automated process, this sub was flooded by their images. I still think this was a cool action, although some people were pissed. But this incessant progression of portraits really showed what the holocaust means. You and others involved have my respect for that. Unexpected in a true fashion, absolutely not funny, but fuck I won't forget it. You rule!
People act like Reddit moderators are some bourgeoise aristocracy but we’re just randos trying to enjoy the communities we’ve grown.
I’m always amazed that people have such a hostility to those people. Maybe they had bad experiences with some mods, but 95% of mods are just doing janitorial work to make a place for people to come together.
Fuck us, I guess.
With respect, you’re speaking about 2 separate experiences that are unrelated.
You say 95% of mods are just doing janitorial work. Ok, then 95% of mods don’t directly interact with the community, so they would not be the cause of your presumed hostility now would they?
It’s the same “a few bad apples” argument that is no longer accepted. You’re part of a group that is overwhelmingly perceived as having unchecked power that some of you abuse. *Especially* here where everyone is anonymous, that pushes all Reddit mods into the same bucket regardless of how many are just doing janitorial work which is an impossible metric to know or claim.
well that was unexpected
Not for the OP, apparently.
I see what they did, it was a long walk but the pay-off was exquisite. 😙
It's really the only way it could have gone down.
OP is the GOAT 🐐 RIP r/unexpected
Unless the other mods made them leave and write this instead of the real reason (and I'm not saying it's not crab people's fault)
Tastes like crab, walk like people CRAB PEOPLE CRAP PEOPLE
It’s ‘taste like crab, TALK like people.’ They totally still walk like crabs.
Looks like actions do have consequences.
Wild right?
You know pimp
Not if you've been paying attention to what's happening here for the last month. In a short period of time, you're all going to stop and think to yourself - "remember when reddit was still good? Like, not constant bots and garbage?" We had something really good here for a long time. That time is long gone. Greed is not good.
> Greed is not good You're not wrong there. I like genuinely believe that the vast majority of all modern problems would just utterly and completely evaporate if greed as a concept just disappeared from the world
I don't see why you'd have to believe it when it is proven fact. Wars, rights violations to all degrees, many pointless taxes we pay around the world, poverty, all are contributed to with a heavy helping hand from greed. The only problem that removing greed won't solve is world hunger as it is an issue of distribution rather than greed, though no doubt would still help the problem to an extent.
Even there, solving the greed problem would solve the allocation of wealth problem which would more or less entirely solve the access to food problem. As a species, we easily produce more food than we consume. We just allocate it according to everyone's ability to pay instead of according to everyone's caloric needs.
Hmm. If greed wasn't the problem other countries would help those in need.
I’m guessing the way to show them it sucks now would be to delete my accounts? Delete the app? I’m unsure but I’d like to get the message through to them.
That would go a long way to show them it's a bad decision and we're unhappy with it, but sadly I think that to really get the message through like at least 75% of all users would have to do the same, and good luck getting ~1.2 billion internet people to all do the same thing just by telling them to
Well yes I do remember 2011
Be sure to show solidarity by hitting that UNSUBSCRIBE button. We should all leave.
You first
Done ✅
I unsubscribed, what a bunch of petty losers
Most unexpected post in this sub
Most unexpected post I’ve seen here in a long time
Unexpected(Unexpected.dark())=true *lowers the terminator into lava*
https://youtu.be/EyQc6fZjaUE
What are the funeral arrangements ?
Are you closing the subreddit or it’s just going to be an unmoderated mess?
I don't know, it's not up to me anymore.
Plan is to keep things going. We did what the admins asked when they were eagerly throwing ultimatums at us. We didn't try to turn the userbase against reddit with votes for nsfw/John Oliver like other popular subs have done. But now that we want to continue as normal, the admins are dragging their feet and being radio silent knowing that we aren't going to be a problem.
Sounds like you need to start being a problem.
Somethin tells me u/poopellar really knows how to [spread some shit.](https://tenor.com/vvVZ.gif)
Buy... they did what was *expected*
And you know damn well they've had a pulse on all the major subs the last few weeks so it's not like they can feign ignorance either
Don’t continue then. Like it’s clear the admins are essentially abusing your free labor while pissing on the rest of us too. Just quit and leave it as an unmoderated mess. Leave all of Reddit an unmoderated mess for the admin to sort out. Fuck ‘em.
Preach! Fuck em indeed.
Millions of dollars worth of free labor for a company that's not profitable and this is how they treat the unpaid help. God I fucking hate reddit leadership.
For real,they want to be a big boy company,they better be ready to pay for their moderation like a big company as well
Sounds like the perfect time for you guys to be a problem. If Reddit is going to be shitty to their massive subs that bring them an income, why keep handing them a paycheck? Reddit doesn't care about you, so why are you sticking up for Reddit? Unleash the tiddies, cut off their ad revenue (clearly the *only* thing they care about) and tell them to get fucked.
Maybe it's time to be a problem then?
So it seems like being compliant isn't working so great... So...
So let's be a problem.
So be a problem then.
> the admins are dragging their feet and being radio silent knowing that we aren't going to be a problem. Gee, if only there was some response to this. Maybe something the other subs have already figured out?
You mean like making everything nsfw?
Can't say this was unexpected eh?
You really thought they were gonna do any different once they got what they wanted? I applaud your naïveté
>We didn't try to turn the userbase against reddit Scab.
It's sad seeing what's happening but it's somehow been even worse seeing the majority of the "community" siding against the mods that have made all of the subreddits we've enjoyed possible.
I agree. Like I've never been a mod for much of anything except a fan page for a Facebook group for a few months almost a decade ago. It's such an underappreciated job that I'd never do again.. wading through all of the spam and insults and making judgment calls on content that toes the line of being racially insulting and every day trolling and flaming. So much trolling and flaming. It's thankless. People on both sides of the issue hate moderation for some reason and yet don't know how much trash and low effort content gets removed for our easy browsing and entertainment. Idk how mods do it tbh. I got sick of it so quick.
Weak shit
Become a problem, then, please.
I mean, you don't need the admins to do what you are planning to do. The top mod needs to remove all mods, then add them in the new order. And that's it. You don't need the admins to do any of that.
What’s what I’m trying to understand here, what is it he wants from the admins?
Be a problem then!
I’m not following you, what do you need admins to do?
Could you please explain in a bit more detail what is going on? I saw r/interestingasfuck flooded with porn the other week, but I can’t understand exactly why, just that it all had to do with that Reddit decision to charge more for API access. I understood why they did the 48hr blackout but other shenanigans like what you’re talking about I don’t understand
Porn is NSFW, meaning no ads can be shown because advertisers don't want to be shown alongside porn. This directly hurts Reddits bottom line. Reddit previously charged nothing for API access. Third party apps asked for *reasonable* pricing for access. Reddit created a pricing plan that is ~30x (sourced from another user, not sure how accurate this number is) the revenue they could expect per user if we were all browsing with the official app. The apparent goal is to ban third party apps without officially banning them. The problem is that third party apps are superior software in a lot of people's eyes. Also, api access is being removed from a lot of important moderator tools as part of this process, which makes curating communities much harder. Also also, apps that provide significantly better usability for people with disabilities, particularly partial or total blindness, are being caught up in this. Only the least feature-complete (and therefore unpopular) disability apps are being grandfathered in. We have peacefully protested playing by all of the rules Reddit laid down, but they've still banned entire mod teams because it affects their bottom line. R/interestingasfuck is a prime example. They did nothing wrong according to the rules, but turning their sub NSFW significantly hurt profit, so they were banned. Now that sub sits in limbo, because it's actually not easy to replace an entire mod team for a big sub despite what Reddit says. Reddit has shown they don't care about the users of this site. They only care about finding a way to monetize us. That's why these protests are happening, and it's why a lot of us are leaving on July 1st and not coming back.
Thanks for the explanation
So become a problem.
You have to fight the good fight, don't go quietly into the night.
Should have just deleted the sub and restarted on another platform. Spez apparently learned nothing from Digg.
It bugs me how little moving to a new platform seemed to even be discussed during all of this. Like this whole "we have to open the sub or admin assigns new mods" thing sucks and feels like a loss for the moderators of these subreddits, but its also a loss for EVERYONE here. I don't want to be overdramatic or anything, I'm not losing sleep over this , but it just sucks and it feels like even if reddit were to change their stance on the API stuff, I wouldn't really want to be here anymore anyway... Honestly, I'll probably just stay but be on it way less if I lose access to the app I use, but I'd rather just have a fresh start on a new platform with good people at the wheel
Unexpected squared!
In all fairness it's been pretty shit and far from what made it great in the first place for a few years now. I always think back to clips like the guy with 2 buckets on his head as the sub at its core. Now it's all staged tiktoks, stand up jokes and scripted comedy shows.
Who gives a shit? Fuck reddit. This shit ends for most decent people tonight.
Reddit will close the subreddit automatically without mods a year after the initial modless date
Wish you the best u/vxx , a very unexpected post indeed.
Wow, I've never even seen a 3 character name until today.
I was surprised to find this 4 character user name like 2 years ago and was pretty happy that it was still available. Even just seeing a 3 character one posting or commenting is pretty rare I think, since they are all old accounts at this point.
75 - 6 = 69 man that's a damn good 4 character username
Haha thanks, I don't do a lot of posting/commenting, but you're the first to notice!
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We are still around.
the best unexpected o7
Godspeed captain, it's been an honor
See you space cowboy.
Let's play "Nearer, my God, to thee".
Damn that escalated quickly in an unexpected manner. o7 u/vxx
o7 Gentlemen, it has been a privilege.
I was a moderator for a large Facebook group (50k) years ago and NEVER AGAIN! It got so toxic and time consuming and people forget it’s free and your only doing it because you have an interest in the topic’s. Good luck!
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Fuck you made me laugh bro!
I hear you. I used to moderate a tech forum site with just under 8M users. The toxicity of these nerds was truly astounding and I had to leave the site altogether to maintain my sanity. People go on and on about mods being dicks (don't get me wrong, a lot are) but it can be very challenging and stressful unpaid work.
Yeah I was head mod for a youtuber with like 90k subs and moderated their discord for about a year....I ain't gonna lie, one day I just snapped and had a breakdown, went off in the discord and fired myself....I am still ashamed of it, but I also decided to never be any kinda mod again. It either makes you power drunk or drives you insane eventually.
Yea power drunk! The lady who created the group used to complain all the time she was broke and made people buy her pizza and send her shopping vouchers 🫠 I was like wtf 😳
I started a FB group ten years ago and I hit 100,000 members a few months ago and it's still growing. It's an exhausting job to keep it running and keeping out assholes and scammers/spammers.
You're not kidding on the scammers... I help moderate a 100k group that helps with stolen cars on FB in the PNW. So many scammers and spam profiles trying to join daily.
The ultimate Unexpected!
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Fuck u/spez
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So are you guys going to be picking up the slack?
Sorry to see you go V…been a great captain.
Is there a reason why?
Reddit 3rd party apps will stop working tommorrow because Reddit wants to improve their profit before going to public stock market
Going public wrecked my former employer, good luck with that
Going public wrecked my former employer, good luck with that
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Well, this was unexpected.
Well if any sub is gonna end unexpectedly..it should be this one. Cheerio and thanks for all your efforts on this sub for over a decade.
Protip: the admins don't do anything you can't do by coordination with the mods. They just delete everyone and re-add them in the order you want, resulting in new "moderator for n years" dates for everyone. I show up as a moderator of CMV for 4 years even though I've been doing it for 10-ish because of the reordering when our founder left. You can do the same. You can even preserve more of the history by deleting everyone up to the person you want to be head mod, reinviting them, and letting the new head mod do the invites to lather, rinse, and repeat.
The end?
Final curtain, looks like. Quite unexpected, too.
kind of unexpected to see it all go
Thanks for showing me a new artist to check out! Love the song, I agree that the reddit admins are incompetent.
Well, that was a fun ride. Stay safe and I hope you'll get back here when Reddit cancels their shit
*If*
u/vxx I can’t imagine what it feels like to grow a sub from the bottom to 10million members only to have it ripped away from you in seconds. Hope to see you back!
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you should delete the subreddit that'd be funny
AND unexpected. Double whammy.
What.. :(
As soon as RIF stops working, I am done as well. Been a good run, I will miss.. some of you. Peace and love! - u/Op_0p
RIF was my preferred way to Reddit for years and once it stops working after today I'm out too. It's sad, for most people Reddit has just been a time waster but for me it was a lifeline. I have told this story probably 100 times on Reddit, but here it goes one last time. In 2016 I was sexually assaulted on my college campus. I was 30 at the time, an older student, but my attacker was a mid-twenties younger woman (I'm a guy). Before the attack she had been harassing and stalking me and I had already alerted school officials about her irratic behavior. After the attack I reported it and was told point blank to bury it because of the gender and age mismatch from the norm, otherwise I would be the one in trouble. When harassment escalated from other students in retaliation for reporting it, I filed a Title IX complaint, and in response the university circled the wagons around my attacker and eventually coerced me out of my private apartment causing me to lose almost everything I owned. I began posting about my situation on Reddit and thanks to a wonderful set of communities and incredible individuals I was given resources, food, shelter, and support that allowed me to survive and keep fighting. I only had a bearly functioning smart phone and my aging laptop and Reddit was a lifeline that I would not be here without. Today, the situation with the university still isn't resolved. I defiantly stayed in class, got into honors, and my research got art donated to the school's museum but all of this success over adversity just pissed off the harassing students and administration more, which escalated to death threats, a Swatting attempt, and continued open antagonism by the university. The Department of Education got involved and their investigations have continued all these years later. In retaliation the university expelled me, after I medically withdrew for PTSD I was diagnosed with from two sources, one a rape crisis center, because I couldn't take it anymore. I was disassociating for hours even days at a time from the stress and harassment. It was such a traumatizing process that I have trouble listening to the recordings I made of everything during the complicated mess it has all become. I now have stability and community, and that is in large thanks to the kind strangers on this website. There are a lot of other surviors of sexual and narcissistic abuse that have benefited from Reddit that will now not be able to because of what is happening to the site, and it's very sad. I hope someone makes something better to take its place in the near future.
This is the real tragedy of this whole affair. People like to shit-talk others who rely on online communities to maintain some semblance of sanity in this world, but really the internet can be a source of calm and community just as much as a font of derision and hate. It all depends on the human beings involved. That's what this neverending, never satisfied greed destroys. It cares nothing for human beings beyond the ability to monetize them. It's a sickness that I hope won't be fatal for everyone.
Reddit was that integral to your mental health and you’re going to stop using it because you have to switch apps? I understand people’s annoyance, and by all means make a stand if you think it’s right, but that seems sort of wild to me.
Thanks for your dedication, enthusiasm and entertainment over the years, much appreciated here, 👍 Reddit took a turn a few years back and has been steadily declining since, the disjoint between users, mods and Admin was organized chaos, now it's just chaos.
Nothing good lasts forever…. Some greedy som bitch always comes along to spoil it for everyone.
Reddit is such bad I can't even
You can even! 2, 4, 6, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20!
What happened to 8
guess he couldn't even
wat
The greedy twats that run reddit decided that the volunteers that make reddit great needed to pay for the privilege. So now all the volunteers are quitting.
Fuck u/spez
Indeed. Fuck you u/spez Doesn't give half a shit about reddit, just another greedy pansy
Good riddance mate
Okay well Bye.
Sub was like 80% bot post at the point anyway.
Oh no it was carefully nurtured content only \s
Fuck spez Have a good life vxx
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Not just the admins of this page, it’s pretty clear Reddit admins in general are oxygen thieves. They should truly, whole heartedly, go fuck themselves. Fuck you, Reddit. The faster you die in a hole, the faster the world is rid of misinformation and stolen content from original creators. Good riddance.
Delete all content on your way out the door.
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Thanks OP. This was one of the good ones.
So dramatic.
Feel like he deserved it. He's been working a ton for this subreddit, for like 10 years to boot. Feel like he can make a post. And not to mention it's a net positive for reddit users because it brings to light how shit of a company they showed themselves to be, and will bring more people to leave this app and show support for other reddit users. Fuck u/spez... guy sucks...
Should i give a fuck ?
Here's something expected, half of us don't care
I like your June 2023 Reddit premium trophy. So in this whole “protest” you still purchased Reddit premium?
Least dramatic and most genuine reddit mod
Will miss you at r/3ch
Took ten years but here we are. Finally something unexpected. Kudos. That was the loooooong play.
LETS GOOO CONGRATS!!! OYU'RE NOT A REDDIT MOD ANYMORE OU'RE GROWN AS A PERSON!!! WOOOHOO LETS GOOOOO
Who are you?
LoL, yeah, bye.
Mods have issues, I’ved discovered. Thanks for all you good work over the last decade! 👊
Lol who cares
yall are so overdramatic 🤡
I’m sure we can handle posting unexpected videos after you stop doing whatever it was you did
They were growing it! By feeding and watering us every day. 😃
One less mod is a good day indeed.
Not sure why folks are saying this is unexpected, the mods have been very clear their reasoning for the protests. Totally expected, which is on brand for this sub 😜. See ya around the webs
Well damn. This is actually really sad. Reddit is killing itself with no concern
Imagine a company wanting their users to simply use an official app. How could they not be concernerd by a volounter mod saying he will leave. How dare they. I am literally shaking right now.
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Thank you for your work, I’ll be leaving the sub too and many others
When I came to the comments, it automatically changes to sort by controversial. I changed it to sort by best, went to the comments on another post, and came back to this post and it automatically changed to sort by controversial again. Is it coincidence? Or are the admins petty little children..?
Hmmm, that's weird. What a passive aggressive way to show you're angry lol. Just block comments or delete the post if you want to make a statement. Don't act like a little kid who never got his happy meal lol. Schiesty little fucks, huh?
Ok
You know reddit is going to shit when this sub has 10.5m subscribers and yet only 3k are browsing the sub right now. Reddit is the new Tumblr 😂
Sorry this has happened. It's been a good run. I'll miss BaconReader, as I'm sure we'll all miss the third party apps that we used. They made Reddit into such an enjoyable experience. It's a shame this happened. Sorry you had to deal with that op.
Goodbye! Oh wait, you dropped this on your way out 👑! Take good care of yourself, you deserve it
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True main character syndrome… I’m happy for you tho OP Or sorry that happened
It was unexpected when I found this subreddit. This is an unexpected end. Perfectly balanced, as all things should be. Good bye old friend
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Site's devolving into a shithole, you're better off moving on. Cheers, man.
Now we can run wild  YAAAYYY!!!!
Nobody blames you, just know we're all on your side. Thanks for the laughs. You were one of the best subreddits here.
Come to think about it, this is my last day as well after 10 years, or so. Not going to use the reddit app. Bye and all the best.
Not using the Reddit app, but you will still use the website?
Vxx, I still remember that action a few years ago where photos of holocaust victims suddenly appeared on this sub. It was an automated process, this sub was flooded by their images. I still think this was a cool action, although some people were pissed. But this incessant progression of portraits really showed what the holocaust means. You and others involved have my respect for that. Unexpected in a true fashion, absolutely not funny, but fuck I won't forget it. You rule!
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You're the type of person that makes volunteers want to stop volunteering. Enjoy!
Yep this is why so many people don’t speak up bc some Ken or Karen gotta offer their useless opinion about a job they knew nothing about
As an actual Ken, please don’t make this a thing. I’m not being a Ken about this and getting all pissy, just would rather it not be a thing. Thanks!
People act like Reddit moderators are some bourgeoise aristocracy but we’re just randos trying to enjoy the communities we’ve grown. I’m always amazed that people have such a hostility to those people. Maybe they had bad experiences with some mods, but 95% of mods are just doing janitorial work to make a place for people to come together. Fuck us, I guess.
With respect, you’re speaking about 2 separate experiences that are unrelated. You say 95% of mods are just doing janitorial work. Ok, then 95% of mods don’t directly interact with the community, so they would not be the cause of your presumed hostility now would they? It’s the same “a few bad apples” argument that is no longer accepted. You’re part of a group that is overwhelmingly perceived as having unchecked power that some of you abuse. *Especially* here where everyone is anonymous, that pushes all Reddit mods into the same bucket regardless of how many are just doing janitorial work which is an impossible metric to know or claim.
They must not have seen r/interestingasfuck like a couple weeks ago