They should tread lightly. Reddit in no way has the ability to function (edit: at least on short notice) without volunteer mods. To some degree they can find scabs, but I honestly don't know how many and how good.

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's destined to become like Twitter, overrun by far-right assholes and lacking quality content. The mods who kept the worst of them off the subs will be gone, and the people who produced the best content will leave as the dregs take over.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's entirely possible, although last I checked Twitter is only on it's way there.

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Oh yeah, it's a slow process, but it's inevitable.

[–] marksson@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Scabs, dregs... its like I'm in Warhammer 40k. You guys play Darktide? If not: a question from non-native speaker: are scabs and dregs a, more or less, common expression/term in English? I'm just trying to escape the trap when you notice something, you start seeing it all around.

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Whenever there's a strike, scab is a very common word. I don't see dregs as much, but it's not super uncommon either. In case you don't know, a scab in this context is someone who is hired to replace people who are on strike and dregs are the most worthless part of something.

[–] DrElementary@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah, are they going to try to mod all the subs by themselves now? That's not going to work out really well. Either there will be no moderation and everything will be trash, or they'll have to hire people as moderators, which will cut into the profits they're trying to show. They're trying to bully people to behave how they want, and I hope it fails badly. But I'm still waiting for people to stop using twitter...

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

or they’ll have to hire people as moderators, which will cut into the profits they’re trying to show.

How many, on what timeline? They could go to this model eventually if they wanted, but with little to no notice it's tough. (I also foresee niche subreddits becoming frustrating to use when the generic full-time moderators don't understand them, and who knows how NSFW subreddits would work)

I have hope it's different from Twitter, because there's a party with leverage that's fundamentally different from mindless scrollers. Not to mention I'm liking the alternative I've tried very much.

[–] 3laws@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

and who knows how NSFW subreddits would work

They want them to die, so they'll do nothing about it. It's not advertisers friendly.

[–] riyria@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was reading a thread on here or Tildes yesterday and someone mentioned that what they think is happening is that the end goal is likely to have no actual mods an just have AI blanket moderators for the whole site removing the issue entirely. In all reality they're probably right, and Reddit has probably been working on AI Mods for sometime now, so they will only have to do this until they can roll out the ai software. Which will probably be sooner rather than later.

[–] Metanoia@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Why hide it though? It's a neat idea and if implemented well would be probably pretty efficient. I wouldn't have any objections to the idea of it.