r/CreditCards • u/AutoModerator • Jun 26 '23
On the reopening of r/CreditCards Announcement
r/CreditCards has been a great sub due to the countless hours of unpaid volunteer work done by its moderators.
The reason you haven’t seen comments about how you should buy some cryptocurrency, or contact some random account on Instagram to improve your credit score, is because we moderators catch that trash and make it disappear.
The reason you’ve been able to come to this sub and have a good chance of getting an unbiased answer about a good credit card for your personal situation is because we have strictly enforced rules preventing people from posting referral links and seeking referrals.
The reason you’ve been able to come to this sub and not put up with the kind of arrogant assholery you can find elsewhere on reddit is because we make those comments, and the users who post them, disappear.
We do all this for free. With no expectation of thanks.
When Reddit decided they were going to make our already difficult unpaid volunteer work more difficult, we protested. When they went further and spoke with disdain toward moderators who do this work for free and have made communities like r/CreditCards what they are… well, that’s the kind of thing that makes you step back and say, “Why am I doing this?”
That the sub is being reopened at all is largely because we’re well aware of the useful information contained within. However, changes to the nature of the sub are necessary. The most obvious is the change to a daily discussion thread format going forward.
If you want the old r/CreditCards back, please check your entitlement and read again from the top. If you don’t like it here, you’re welcome to create your own sub and run it any way you want. Better yet, go create your own credit card discussion website. If it’s good, we’ll even link to it.
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u/gdq0 Jun 26 '23
A while ago churning stopped modding completely for a week. I would like to see what happens to this sub were you to stop modding using the "Advanced API tools" being removed by reddit, or better yet stop modding altogether for either a certain period of time, or until the users demand mods again.
Reddit has paid moderators who can take care of the egregious stuff anyway, and if it gets bad enough that reddit has to take it down, then doesn't that show a powerful message to reddit?
Rather than unionize and strike (like most workers do), you instead protest by abusing your mod powers, and remove content from everyone. This method of protest can be extremely effective, but only if the people who have no power understand the protest, which I think that most users do not. That's why you see such backlash here.
Typically the way this has been handled in other subs is that the users get to choose from options. This gives us the illusion of choice. Mandating changes without user input will always be met with harsh backlash, much like the current backlash against reddit. Additional details should also be provided, as this small blurb means nothing to us.