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Reddit tried to sticky this post for moderators around 12p CST today, and they’ve since tried to bury it. Thought it might be good to back up the link here.

    • empireOfLove@lemmy.oneEnglish
      2581·
      1 year ago

      That’s the most wishy-washy weasel-word corporate PR professional bullshit post I’ve ever seen

      “Here, let’s give you more ways to give us feedback that we can then promptly ignore”

      • thefartographer@lemm.eeEnglish
        65·
        1 year ago

        “We’re gonna have meaningful weekly meetings with all the hundreds or thousands of you, and we’re gonna take the opportunity to really listen. Now, this isn’t just some platitude to quiet you until we take the company public, but you know, we might suddenly get too busy for these once we’re diving into our piles of cash.”

        “We’re gonna compile your input and file it away somewhere safe. Look! I already bought a basket to hold all of them and lined it with a plastic bag! And when my comment can gets reeeeeeaaaallllllly full, I’ll file your comments into a larger bin until the city files those comments with the other valuables!”

        “We wanna show you how much we care. We care sooooooooo much that we’re gonna visit you on our “Fuck you, I Wanna be Rich” vacation! We’re gonna see the country and occasionally talk to people in a patronizing tone. For all the shit-holes we don’t feel like visiting, we’re gonna throw you a pizza party! It’s gonna be super revolutionary cuz it’ll be a virtual pizza party! Pay for your own food and watch us eat pizza while we explain to you that you’re not really upset with us, you’re just scared of change and passionate about things that don’t make us rich. Remember to dress up nice, we’d hate for you poors to make us look bad.”

      • thessnake03@lemmy.worldEnglish
        46·
        1 year ago

        And we won’t really tell you what we’re up to as a company either. You’ll find out with everyone else when we pull the rug from under you

        Good riddance

      • HughJanus@lemmy.mlEnglish
        8·
        1 year ago

        Yes they problem is we haven’t given them enough feedback. Surely if we have them now feedback they would understand the problem. Shutting down the entire website for multiple days was not clear.

    • LemmyLefty@lemmy.worldEnglish
      90·
      1 year ago

      Here’s a condensed version:

      “It’s not that mistakes were made, you just got angry. Spontaneously. Weird how that happened, when we love you just, like, so much.

      Anyways, let’s move on. Fill out a form to become a member of an unpaid focus group.”

      • frickineh@lemmy.worldEnglish
        30·
        1 year ago

        Don’t forget, “We’re gonna pay some of our staff to go to cool cities to meet several of you! What an incredible opportunity for them to get frequent flier miles and for you to show up (again, unpaid) at a fake meeting in your free time. This will surely have some kind of impact on how we run things, in that nothing will change whatsoever.”

    • Purplexingg@lemmy.worldEnglish
      371·
      1 year ago

      Unlucky, didn’t see this until after I clicked. The new default for posts about reddit here on Lemmy should be that any links are just screenshots or archived versions or something

    • Orphie Baby@lemmy.worldEnglish
      345·
      1 year ago

      Pardon my literal autism, but can you explain the problematic implication for me, friend? I don’t understand it ^^

      • HelterSkeletor@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
        78·
        1 year ago

        Pretend your the mod of a moderately sized subreddit. You have third party tools you rely on to help keep your community functioning. Reddit takes away your tools, then tells you “you can spend more of your free time in a pointless meeting with us”

        • Orphie Baby@lemmy.worldEnglish
          50·
          1 year ago

          Oh, okay, yeah. That make sense. Gotta love that spineless, landlord-during-COVID-style victim-blaming speak. : /

          • captainlezbian@lemmy.worldEnglish
            59·
            1 year ago

            It also is the statement “we’re here to listen to you” in response to a protest with a lot of clear demands. There was no concession or acknowledgement of the possibility of any. There was no apologies for the absolute assholery of the CEO. There wasn’t even an acknowledgement that they’re the ones in the wrong.

            It’s like if you’ve been sleeping on the couch until your spouse stops cheating on you and they say “I know you’re mad, but let’s talk this out after work tomorrow” like no, you have to say sorry and that you’ll stop, then we need to talk about how to rebuild the shattered trust.

    • Phlogiston@lemmy.worldEnglish
      20·
      1 year ago

      thanks. my /etc/hosts file still has: 0.0.0.0 www.reddit (break link) .com

      (I find this helps me break habits)

      • Serinus@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        It just brings up RiF for me, which doesn’t work. I’ve only 99% left though, so I can’t pihole it. I copy over some content and use the pages that turn up on Google search results.

    • kite@lemmy.worldEnglish
      18·
      1 year ago

      I picture the employees playing rock, paper, scissors to determine who was going to have to make that post; I can’t imagine any of them didn’t know how this was going to play out.

      …And the dude that won (lost?) didn’t even know how to link his own username. It looks like he did it via an actual hyperlink! Now that is fantastic example out of touch management.

    • deweydecibel@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      1 year ago

      Not a fan of the mobile site making me pinch and zoom the whole page just to get a better look at an embedded image.

      Of course I’m not a fan of embedded images in comments all together and hope they make that like a toggleable thing.

    • azdood85@lemmy.worldEnglish
      131·
      1 year ago

      On one hand Im happy to see that dumpster fire ignite even more. Then on the other hand Im happy to see all those mods end up not being listened to and frustrated by those who have the power.

      You reap what you sow, suckers.

      • Countess425@lemmy.worldEnglish
        46·
        1 year ago

        I can’t tell what that person’s intent is because the post is filled with “I’m sorry you’re upset” platitudes that accept no responsibility or even an understanding of why the mods are so upset in the first place; just more unpaid work they’re expected to do to keep it from happening again.

      • HobbitFoot @thelemmy.clubEnglish
        7·
        1 year ago

        Yeah. Even if you fully trust this person, this person isn’t Reddit. I don’t think they can do what needs to be done.

    • DeanFogg@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Here’s a screenshot so you don’t give the site any traffic

      The hero we need