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Reddit Admin team asking for volunteer moderators at tons of subreddits (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/reddit@lemmy.world
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[–] 18 points 3 years ago (1 child)

What risk? They take away the mod position you didn't really want in the first place?

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  • [+] -29 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (4 children)

    The risk is that they start suing users that act malicious, and this can't be seen as malicious just incompetent.

    Edit: I don't see users doing nothing as malicious. I'm talking about the one's breaking stuff being sued.

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  • [–] 31 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 child)

    Suing unpaid volunteers for not working hard enough? Not a lawyer, but surely you can't use sue an employee for not working hard enough. Just do a really poor job, don't moderate well. What are they going to argue?

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  • [+] -8 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    No they will sue the malicious ones not the ones doing nothing.

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  • [–] 14 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    A lawsuit requires them to be breaking a law. Doing a shit or even malicious job at something you volunteered for is not against the law. Mods are not employees of reddit. If the argument is that they're somehow harming the product, that same argument could be extended to the protestors and shitposters. It wouldn't hold any water in an actual court.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago* (2 children)

    sue em back if thats the way the wanna play it i think its high time we got the aclu involved if they seem to think their content is theirs--- is an image microsofts etc cuz you used one of their programs to draw it? id say it falls more on the previous mods etc is the way to argue this in court now that i think about it why arent people trying to sue reddit more for billions? futhermore i think they are hiding stuff on their end to investors i think its time the sec got wind of this im a counterpuncher and i dont stop until the enemy is doa thats my mentality

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago*

    If you’re talking about suing Reddit for copyright/intellectual property law infringement, unfortunately, that’s unlikely to happen. Reddit can claim certain rights over user content because it’s not against the law to sign over those rights through a user agreement. It’s a bad idea, but it is likely to be considered legally binding. The “right to be forgotten” under GDPR is a specific form of control of content that can’t be signed away, but it’s not about copyright.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    How could they possibly sue moderators? They're all anonymous

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