Reddit: “we will make up whatever rules we want, whenever we want, so that we can keep funding the payments on our BMWs”
Normally, companies try and implement changes in their product in a diplomatic way, but I guess Reddit never got that memo.
Since when they have a rule to prevent SFW subs from turning into NSFW subs? Did they add the clause just recently?
They didn’t care/enforce it during the whole anime_titties/worldpolitics shenanigans, so either new or enforced when they feel like it. Centralised control sure is great.
They also suspended all our accounts for 7 days.
As the original creator and designer of the logo and banner, I also filed a DMCA against the further use of the r/TIHI logo on reddit.
“As the original creator and designer of the logo and banner, I also filed a DMCA against the further use of the r/TIHI logo on reddit.”
Thanks, I Love It.
Unfortunately that has no chance of succeeding. When you sign up to reddit, you give them a license to use the content you submit. It’s in the user agreement, section 5 “Your Content”: https://www.redditinc.com/policies/user-agreement
This doesn’t hold any grounds in the EU as copyrights can’t be waived, and unless you got paid for it, you can withdraw consent at any time.
You don’t waive your copyright. You grant a license to reddit to use your content.
Read the link, it’s all there:
You retain any ownership rights you have in Your Content, but you grant Reddit the following license to use that Content:
…This doesn’t apply unless you got compensated for your work. Reddit can add anything they like in their agreements, but that won’t hold in court.
The artist can withdraw consent at any time.
You are confused. What you are describing applies to transferring copyright, not for granting a license while retaining the copyright.
If things worked the way you described, free software, for example licensed through the GPL, couldn’t exist because then the authors could always take away the users’ rights by retroactively revoking their license. Fortunately, it doesn’t work that way.
There are cases where artists withdrew consent and their work had to be taken down, and to my knowledge all contracts can be amended or cancelled, especially if they’re exploitative like reddits. You have a right to compensation if they profit off of your creative work, be it artwork, music, or writing.
Under GDPR you have the right to your content, including data download and revocation. If you are banned from or restricted access to a website it doesn’t strip you of that right. However the complain should have probably been through GDPR and not DMCA.
No, under the GDPR you don’t have the right to have your content removed. You have the right to have personally identifiable data removed, things like names, IP addresses, phone numbers, …
I’ll link to the EU website that explains what they mean with personal data below, but I don’t think a logo qualifies under their definition.
https://commission.europa.eu/law/law-topic/data-protection/reform/what-personal-data_en
Yeah, I just don’t get why this misinformation is so wide-spread. Under GDPR you don’t own shit, it’s for protecting your personal information. That’s all.
The DMCA is used “successfully” with even less grounds on YouTube every day. But I suppose the difference lies in not being a mega corporation.
Yeah, the DMCA only works one way :(
In 7 days I’m going to speedrun a permanent account ban.
Just say that you’ll kill and eat Matt Walsh if you were locked on a room with him, worked for me
Reporting misinformation in r/conservative (in good faith) worked for me.
Nah, that shit just got me banned from specific reddits. You have to make a joke about eating one of their idols.
r/conservative mods are unique in that they retaliate by claiming it’s “report abuse.”
I want to try something… Less involved in getting me on more lists.
Honestly, people posting unrelated trash to subreddits with new moderators would be good. A dozen new moderators against thousands of non-bots just posting shit to reddit would be fun to try to moderate.
Not even rule breaking stuff so you can contribute more than once. Like submitting wikihow articles for laying down floor tiles in TIHI. and upvoting other posts that don’t belong.
A user on tildes describes how to go scorched earth for mods:
- Turn off all spam filtering
- Disable minimum karma requirements
- Allow all posts, disable all rules
- Unban all banned users
- Purge all allowed submitters
- Turn off AutoModerator, Scrub all configs
- Delete all CSS and uploaded images/maps
- Blank all sidebars, Delete all flairs
- Allow NSFW content, Enable sub’s content on /all
- Set the sub’s color scheme on mobile to something vomit-inducing
- Blank all of the text options such as the sub’s topic listing
- Grab a copy of anything in the wikis worth saving
- Disable and permanently remove all third party mod tools and bots
- Invite all users to the moderation team with full comment/submission privs
- GDPR request for their own account data and then
- Use it to delete their accounts and all of their content
The options in bold, they have no defense for. That’s where the pressure points lie. The rest they can cope with, but not those options, not if lots of subs and users go that route.
Might want to avoid turning the sub NSFW, reddit admins claimed that as the criteria they are watching for to remove mods. They say they are taking action to prevent porn being spammed.
I mean most of these actions would probably end with the mod getting removed, but yeah the current target is NSFW, as that directly affects reddit’s ability to serve ads.
It’s easy for them to attack the remaining subreddits when half of reddit, bent the knee at the slightest threat of having mod powers removed. Imagine how hard it would have been to do this if a majority of subreddits had stuck together.
Yes there’s an element of people not wanting to lose their power. But for every dickhead powermod there are dozens of small subreddits with a handful of people working hard to establish and maintain a community, largely altruistically and thanklessly.
Modding, when it’s done well by dedicated people with a passion for their subject, can be incredibly powerful. There are some communities (eg legaladvice, askhistorians) that are unique and just couldn’t exist without those people dedicating untold hours to tending to them to prevent them from descending into chaos. Not to mention the custom tools almost all of them rely on. You can’t just yank those people out and replace them without losing a lot of what makes those communities unique.
Have a read of Legaladviceuk announcement.
Yeah the issue with my sub is we’ve worked really hard to create the community we have. A lot of our users won’t leave. I’ve decided to use an automod sticky comment on every post letting everyone know where the rest of our official pages are. I have seen very little migration unfortunately.
We decided as a mod team to keep our sub open. We’re all migrating off Reddit but we’re keeping our accounts for our one singular sub.
Most people don’t pay attention to things around them and don’t tend to care unless it directly impacts them.
As long as you and other mods are carrying on in your roles, these people have no motivation to move.
If the subbreddits stop being moderated it will generally degrade the experience, people will become impacted and then be forced to take notice.
This is the gamble, someone might step up, they might decide leaving reddit is too high a price or you might cause people to migrate.
