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📢Entire mod team on r/mildlyinteresting (and more subs) removed and locked out of their accounts after changing their rules upon community's request. (They're also switching subs BACK to SFW) (media.kbin.social)
submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) by to c/RedditMigration@kbin.social
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EDIT: GO DM MODS OF YOUR FAVORITE SUBREDDITS AND POLITELY ASK ABOUT MIGRATION!: something as simple as "Hey, I love this community but I no longer use reddit, will you guys be making a community on Kbin or other alternatives? Let me know please, thanks." will work!! We need more voices encouraging migration!

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ModCodeofConduct switching subs to SFW

POST ABOUT MODS FORCIBLY SWITCHING SUBS BACK TO SFW (teddit)

"What the users want" my ass. Reddit doesn't give 2 shits about what the users want.

If you guys wanna do more and get back at reddit, consider using a program that has gathered hundreds of their advertiser emails an emailing them to try and stop them from advertising, there is a email guide inside as well! USE BCC, NOT TO OR IT WILL SHOW ALL THE COMPANIES EVERYONE YOU EMAILED.

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r/interestingasfuck removed as well

r/ThanksIHateit mod team removed

r/self mod team removed

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from r/mildlyinteresting. restoration after they saw the backlash or mod team replacement? we dont know quite yet

r/mildlyinteresting update

edit 3: Reddit removed moderators behind the latest protests before restoring a few of them - restored by a different admin than the one that removed them...

#boycottreddit #reddit #spez

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[–] 44 points 3 years ago (3 children)

It will only slow them temporarily you don't need api for bots

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

    Yeah, it'll only kill the useful ones in the long run.

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  • [–] 15 points 3 years ago

    Yeah. The unethical bots will just use scrapers, as they already do for the many websites that don't offer APIs. They're already violating ToS, so they don't care. Ethical ones won't have that option (at least not past the fairly low quota).

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  • [–] 26 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Correct. Now the bots will be constantly scraping the pages of every post which will be a much bigger burden on their servers.

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  • [–] 18 points 3 years ago

    It's funny, years ago websites switched to openly available APIs specifically to lessen server burden because of bots. Now they're swapping away from APIs because of bots, but those bots are just gonna go back to scraping.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 years ago

    From my understanding, they already aren't using the API.

    If the spam bots were using the API, then Reddit would have been able to shut them down trivially. Part of logging in via API requires a "client ID" that uniquely identifies the creator of the app/bot being used.

    They could theoretically have each bot account create its own client ID, but even that would be a pretty obvious thing to look for.

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