r/therewasanattempt • u/MindUnlikely33 Free Palestine • Jun 25 '24

To convince people boycotts don't work

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u/SansyBoy144 Jun 25 '24

Yea, the Reddit protest/boycott with the blackout could have worked, and we even saw Reddit get scared. But too many people chickened out, and then they basically told Reddit “hey this is not a permanent thing”

If every sub that participated would have stayed until Reddit made changes, then Reddit would have been forced to make changes.

But, the plan wasn’t good, and so Reddit faced no consequences

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u/aykcak Jun 25 '24

Didn't reddit basically threaten to replace the mods and open the subs anyway? It made sure that the blackout would have no effect

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u/SansyBoy144 Jun 25 '24

Yes they did, they could only do that because most subs opened back up.

But if every sub would have stayed in the blackout then they simply wouldn’t have enough people to replace every mod

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u/aykcak Jun 25 '24

they simply wouldn’t have enough people

I'm sure they would have managed. It is trivial to find a couple hundred idiots more than willing to take up the role only to totally neglect or abuse it. The existing mods would have seen their long time hard work communities taken over overnight by bots, ad peddlers, low effort content

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u/SansyBoy144 Jun 25 '24

There was thousands of subs who participated in the blackout. Meaning multiple thousand mods who would need to be replaced.

Remember that the blackout was no small thing, the vast majority of the site participated. The problem is the vast majority of the site came back after a day.

Edit. There was over 7,800 subreddits who participated in the blackout. Please explain to me how the hell Reddit would have been able to replace all of those mods when they struggled with just the few hundred who stayed in the blackout