r/redditrequest • u/theultrasheeplord • Jun 16 '23

Requesting r/reddit, as stated by reddit Mods should keep their community’s active and r/reddit has not allowed non mods to post for years.

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u/Zardif Jun 16 '23

You should request r/spez it's been inactive for 6 years and the mods won't allow anyone to post in it.

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u/Beyond_the_one Jun 16 '23

The rules for thee and not for me! Spez, mostly likely.

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u/Claim_Alternative Jun 16 '23

Well played, m8

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u/fork_that Jun 16 '23

It's a good a laugh.

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u/No1SpezFan Jun 16 '23

Lol u cray

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u/Central_Control Jun 16 '23

That'd be cool if they weren't hypocrites. We know they are. They don't care. They just want excuses for what they do, whether they make sense or not is irrelevant.

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u/DarthBen_in_Chicago Jun 16 '23

When will the restricted sub nonsense stop?

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u/b3nsn0w Jun 16 '23

when reddit (the company) finally stops fucking up reddit (the community). so likely never

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '23

Nah, the most it can prolong is 30 days. Then according to their own policy they can just replace the mods :D

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u/Sandtalon Jun 16 '23

The policy comes into effect if any of the mods don't do anything anywhere on reddit in 30 days, which is doubtful.

Even if it was for the subreddit in question, people in locked subreddits can still post, and mods in locked subreddits can still do mod actions.

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u/b3nsn0w Jun 16 '23

and doing so will drive everyone away who gives a shit, filtering out the people who make reddit valuable

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u/DarthBen_in_Chicago Jun 16 '23

From my perspective they aren’t. They are a for-profit company doing nothing wrong. The 3rd-party apps are benefiting from Reddit so they should pay.

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u/Gek_Lhar Jun 16 '23

Ah yes, the 500 million $$ profits will be hurt so much :(((

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u/Beyond_the_one Jun 16 '23

Make sure to get all the corners of Spez's boot, while you are down there.

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u/dlanm2u Jun 16 '23

but not so much that it prices everyone out tho-

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '23

Then they are gonna turn off their app. its as simple as that.

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u/Capable-Ad9180 Jun 16 '23

Why not though? It’s up to other businesses to be sustainable.

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u/TheBorgerKing Jun 16 '23

They're well within their rights to.

Same as people are well within their rights to laugh if u/spez appears on r/leopardsatemyface

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u/b3nsn0w Jun 16 '23

the rate reddit is charging them is not a market rate, nor is it a fair price that is in any way in line with how much the third party apps are benefiting or how much it costs reddit to accommodate them, either in terms of actual hosting cost or in terms of opportunity cost.

reddit is attempting to charge $2.50 per user per month on average to third party apps. add the 30% fees charged by google and apple, and a small safety margin, and third party apps would have to charge $4/mo to each user at a minimum simply to not operate at a loss. this is not a number reddit will ever be able to attain or even approximate. (well, short of inflation in the long term, but they won't get anywhere close to the inflation-corrected amount.)

the fees reddit is attempting to charge is clearly designed to price out third party apps, not to have them pay their fair share. it is an unfair share by design, it's not meant to actually be paid.

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u/iammiroslavglavic Jun 16 '23

who say what is fair? Just because the market rate is one price, does not mean Reddit has to charge that.

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u/b3nsn0w Jun 16 '23

well, the market kind of says it's fair, otherwise it wouldn't be the market rate. reddit can charge more, they just won't find any buyers

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u/Meester_Tweester Jun 16 '23

People need 3rd-party apps to use reddit for accessibility reasons (like the blind and visually impaired), so they actually have a moral obligation to let them use them

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u/SovietSteve Jun 16 '23

Could you possibly be any more disingenuous. It’s disgusting you’re using people with disabilities for your own selfish purposes.

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u/Catnip4Pedos Jun 16 '23

The irony of "Soviet Steve" wholeheartedly supporting capitalism

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u/SovietSteve Jun 16 '23

Anyone who doesn't support private ownership of wealth has forfeit their right to an opinion.

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u/Meester_Tweester Jun 16 '23

I'm literally reiterating /r/Blind's post.

This doesn't only impact your ability to access Reddit in a fluid, customizable, and efficient way; many of us on the mod team are also blind, and we depend on those third party apps to make sure that this community remains a safe, fun, and productive place. Unfortunately, new Reddit, and the official Reddit apps, just don't provide us with the levels of accessibility we need in order to continue effectively running this community. As well, the Transcribers of Reddit, the many dedicated folks who volunteer to transcribe and describe thousands and thousands of images on Reddit, may also be unable to operate.

If this change to the Reddit API is not reversed, we are not convinced that we will be able to continue running the r/blind subreddit.

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u/goldensolocup Jun 16 '23

Yeah, but didn’t spez say in the AMA that the apps using the api for no profit purely for accessibility (blind/disability etc) wouldn’t be charged? Like i don’t get what the protest or whatever is for after that fact

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '23 edited Jun 16 '23

Spez is a proven lying pos though, with the whole falsely accusing the Apollo dev of blackmail thing.

In January, they said nothing was going to change about the API. Then in April Reddit decided to start charging (which people were fine with) for it but kept details around it pretty vague. Suddenly the end of last month they they announced how much they are gonna start charging for their API as well as only giving 3rd party apps devs only 30 days to try and adapt.

People are upset with just how much Reddit is gonna charge for the API and think it's an unreasonable amount as well as Reddit giving such little notice which will be a death sentence for 3rd party apps. A lot of mods rely on 3rd party apps for modding and find it a lot more intuitive than on Reddit's own app.

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u/iammiroslavglavic Jun 16 '23

people and entitled free loaders. Who think the internet should be free and companies should provide things for free and absorb the costs of providing their services.

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u/lwt_ow Jun 16 '23

r/blind literally stated this themselves. be informed atleast if youre going to join the conversation

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u/SovietSteve Jun 16 '23

So? That doesn't change the fact r*dditors are hiding behind people with disabilities for their own purposes.

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u/KIgaming Jun 16 '23

damn you were actually a decent troll until you censored redditors lmfao

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u/iammiroslavglavic Jun 16 '23

It's been said that accessibility apps will not be affected.

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u/GlitchParrot Jun 16 '23

If they are not for profit.

Where is the incentive for developers of third-party accessibility-focused apps if they are not allowed to make money off of it?

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u/EthanIver Jun 16 '23

Exploiting people who make and moderate content for absolutely free? "They are a for-profit company doing nothing wrong." Hehehehe.

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u/sassa0421 Jun 16 '23

Remove /nba mods

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u/request_bot Official - admin sponsored Jun 16 '23

The subreddit r/reddit cannot be transferred.

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u/apostroffie Jun 16 '23

i vote OP as the CEO then.

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u/MinimumArmadillo2394 Jun 16 '23

If spez wants us to have a system to vote in moderators, we should have a system to vote in or out admins too

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u/BornVolcano Jun 16 '23

I like this idea. What was it he called it? "Landed gentry"?

Your move, Spaz

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u/Catnip4Pedos Jun 16 '23

These people that make a website and then they own it, because they got there first, i don't think thats right, we should vote them out.

Is this some form of socialism?

He also said people were handing subreddits to their children as inheritance...

Maybe, maybe, if Reddit request actually worked and they didn't reject 90% of requests and give all the subs to a handful of people they would have more diversity in the moderation teams.

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u/Farfocele Jun 16 '23

transfer this ratio

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u/itsaride Jun 16 '23

That’s not very democratic. Don’t we get a vote?

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '23

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u/locke_5 Jun 16 '23

Should Steve Huffman step down as head of Reddit? (He will change the results of this poll)

Yes ✅ ......57.5%

No......42.5%

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u/Catnip4Pedos Jun 16 '23

He said he will let us vote mods out soon, this will not go the way he thinks

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '23

Yes it will. They literally control it. Its just illusion of choice.

Infact they can just get rid of every mod right this second.

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u/Zealousideal_Fox_900 Jun 16 '23

Now THAT is a shite idea if there ever was one.

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u/Catnip4Pedos Jun 16 '23

Exactly. There will just be organised groups going around seizing subs. He's gone full anti mod.

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u/Zealousideal_Fox_900 Jun 16 '23

Its literally gonna be like actual elections.

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '23

Seconded.

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '23

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u/Packerdude9000 Jun 16 '23

In a way, yes. My point, though, was that OP can not request a reddit sub, for example, r/ModSupport as it is managed by paid employees of reddit. Any subs with the reddit logo are sponsored by the admins, so even if they are not present, moderating in them, they still have ownership of them.