/r/flashlight is on strike - eviltoast

Most people here are probably already aware of the situation on Reddit. This is a thread to discuss it here.

  • voodoo_three@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    May get buried in this little bit older post, but I did see this discussion going on over at r/modcoord.

    https://reddit.com/r/ModCoord/comments/149apf9/campaigns_have_notched_slightly_lower_impression/

    Seems to imply that even smaller subs being closed could be generating a noticeable impact on Reddit’s long-term advertising. Would suggest that these strikes will have an impact if they go on longer. I’m unsure honestly, trying to listen with an open mind but this at least seems like an actual attempt at looking at the situation as opposed to anyone saying ‘this is dumb, won’t do anything so there’s no point.’

    That said, I’m still sympathetic to those who say they want the sub back. I do too! Locking out my favorite place on Reddit has been very obnoxious—but I voted to keep it closed and re-vote again with more info on Monday.

    • Zak@lemmy.worldOPM
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      1 year ago

      I really wish I’d used contest mode instead of a poll. Some people were upset and confused about the result, but I really do want to do whatever the majority of the community who’s engaged enough to vote about it prefers.

      I have my own opinions of course, but I’m trying to be realistic. I don’t think shutting down communities permanently is a good approach, and completely moving a community to a new place never quite works. I don’t plan to move away from Reddit entirely and will continue to participate as long as there’s a friendly community there and old.reddit remains usable.

      I do, however believe Lemmy is a better approach than Reddit going forward, and I will be de-emphasizing Reddit in some ways TBD.

      • HenryWinklersWinky@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        How would contest mode have improved the outcome? Right now this whole vote feels like a sham, as the mods didn’t like how it was going so they skewed the results by adding two opinions together. If you don’t want to be there anymore I encourage you to seek out someone else to take your spot instead of just restricting the community and walking away.

        • Zak@lemmy.worldOPM
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          1 year ago

          Contest mode would have improved the outcome because it is possible to vote on every option, so the vote is not split between similar options.

          If I wanted to run a poll where people can only pick one option and make sure option B wins even if option A might be more popular, I could do this:

          • A
          • A, but slightly different
          • B

          I realized I had done exactly that by accident so I changed it the best way I could think of at the time.

          Nobody intends to restrict the community and walk away. As long as the community is restricted, there will be a poll at least weekly. In the mean time, welcome to Lemmy. It’s smaller, but growing, and we have fun stuff like comments with direct image uploads.

          • HenryWinklersWinky@lemmy.world
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            1 year ago

            Are you/they planning to add them together against the “stay open” option again too? From what your saying the “open” option would have won already in the previous vote.

            Regardless, leaving the community restricted with a vote will lead to less folks caring about the sub over time and eventually it dying off. There’s about 175k folks there vs about 400-ish here - this place isn’t the answer to putting a quality sub on life support.

            • Zak@lemmy.worldOPM
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              1 year ago

              Are you/they planning to add them together against the “stay open” option again too?

              No. Why would I do that? Since contest mode allows voting for multiple options, that would result in some people getting two votes.

              See here for why the two protest options were combined.

              • HenryWinklersWinky@lemmy.world
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                1 year ago

                Because it happened last time when the poll didn’t go as you wanted. I’m sure you understand many having skepticism about this.

                • Zak@lemmy.worldOPM
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                  1 year ago

                  You don’t know how I wanted the poll to go. It absolutely wasn’t clear how it would go at the time of the edit; about 150 votes had been cast at the time compared to an eventual 2200.

                  • dky@lemmy.world
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                    1 year ago

                    You should ignore the children. Their reddit addiction is getting to them and no matter how you explain it, they will just keep having tunnel vision.

                    I don’t think there is any difference between Restricted and Private. Both are achieving the same thing for the current purpose (zero activity), so adding those 2 up makes sense. If no one can see that, then it’s best to not waste time in trying to explain it to them.