More, it needs to back up it’s talk with some action, particularly to modernize the tools that moderators use daily to manage their subs. This much, however, is certain: Reddit needs a plan to win back the hearts and minds of its volunteer moderators, and in so doing, keep the wheels on its content moderation practice. So, is this were Reddit begins to unwind? I won’t presume to make a prediction. And that the complete lack of communication regarding Victoria’s dismissal, whatever its circumstance, was a slap in the face to the moderators who do the lion’s share of curating the content that has made Reddit “the front page of the Internet.”
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Because the point of view of the Reddit collective - and in particular the site’s army of unpaid moderators - was that Victoria was an essential part of communication between mods and an increasingly isolated team of Reddit admins. It’s also why Redditors were instantly up-in-arms over the sudden termination of Victoria Taylor. It implies that, no matter how you feel about something, individually, it’s the collective’s point of view that will dominate discourse, even when that point of view is silly, childish, impractical (oh, especially if it’s impractical!) or entirely beside the point. The group you’ve become a part of is made of people. There’s an underlying social contract that supports this meritocracy. That’s kind of what we thought the Internet was supposed to be, right? A level playing field where everybody had the opportunity to contribute, and the best ideas, the best arguments, the best thinking won? So just where did all these cat pictures and rage memes and knitted hats come from? What kind of way is this to run a utopia, anyhow?ĭiscovering yours is not the dominant point of view? That’s part of the deal. Posts and links are judged by fellow Redditors and rise to the level of their perceived value. Imge: Eva Blue (Point is, Reddit is a capital “M” Meritocracy.
Links that are very popular can skyrocket to the Front Page, where they are still more visible and will likely become still more popular, and voila - a viral meme is born ( soon to appear on BuzzFeed, no doubt.) Posts and links that reap more positive votes than negative votes bubble up, and become more visible. Roadside attractions: people feel themselves being pulled to places where, in other parts of the world, they would recognize that part of themselves that is truly transcendent, and buy a hot dog and walk around, feeling satisfied on a level they cannot truly describe, and profoundly dissatisfied on a level beneath that.”Īll submissions are voted up or down, and every user can vote on any submission. “… people still get the call, or some of them, and they feel themselves being called to from the transcendent void, and they respond to it by building a model out of beer bottles of somewhere they’ve never visited, or by erecting a gigantic bat-house in some part of the country that bats have traditionally declined to visit. The breadth and depth of Reddit subs - the number and types of bits of string - boggles the imagination. Enjoy Pokemon? Fancy conspiracy theories? How about both of them, together? There are even subs dedicated to searching out weird subreddits. Fond of watching Vice President Joe Biden eat sandwiches? There’s a subreddit for that, too. There’s a reddit for that - a subreddit, actually - that’s how Reddit’s communities of interest are categorized. Have a predilection for animated gifs of cats doing things cats do? And so they would build temples, or cathedrals, or erect stone circles, or…well, you get the idea.” They knew that something important was happening there, that there was some focusing point, some channel, some window to the Immanent. Sometimes it would be a natural formation, sometimes it would just be a place that was, somehow, special. “In other countries, over the years, people recognized the places of power. “This is a roadside attraction,” said Wednesday.
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