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So IAMA is practically dead... (www.reddit.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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For those that dont want to look at the link:

"effective immediately, we plan to discontinue the following activities:

  1. Active solicitation of celebrities or high profile figures to do AMAs.

  2. Email and modmail coordination with celebrities and high profile figures and their PR teams to facilitate, educate, and operate AMAs. (We will still be available to answer questions about posting, though response time may vary).

  3. Running and maintaining a website for scheduling of AMAs with pre-verification and proof, as well as social media promotion.

  4. Maintaining a current up-to-date sidebar calendar of scheduled AMAs, with schedule reminders for users.

  5. Sister subreddits with categorized cross-posts for easy following.

  6. Moderator confidential verification for AMAs.

  7. Running various bots, including automatic flairing of live posts"

I feel this was Reddit biggest sub, and probably the most prestigious. Wonder what the effect will be on reddit overall and if reddit will replace the mods.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

but that's what this post is, they're quitting. did you reply in the wrong thread or something?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

but that's what this post is, they're quitting. did you reply in the wrong thread or something?

They're not quitting. They are going to continue to moderate their sub. Yes they have agreed to no longer do a huge laundry list of responsibilities they took upon themselves to improve their sub - but they are not quitting.

Quitting would truly impact reddit. Losing this group of moderators who have built relationships with agents and PR groups would be huge. They are literally unreplaceable. It would take reddit years to get mods in place that could do what these do on the daily. But they are unable to quit because they don't want to give up their throne and things will eventually return to normal without reddit conceding an inch.

Look at the media coverage losing r/Minecraft got because those devs/mods had the courage and backbone to quit. We need more of that.

Even in their letter, the mods of IAMA said they'd been asking for tools since 2015. No changes. 8 years and they still haven't gotten what they wanted. Yet they refuse to take the next necessary step. To quit.

Sunk cost fallacy and power hungry are a terribly greedy combination.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

But from that post:

They've told the media that they are actively planning to remove moderators who keep subreddits shut down and have no intentions of making changes.

So, moving forward, we're going to run IAmA like your average subreddit. We will continue moderating, removing spam, and enforcing rules. Many of the current moderation team will be taking a step back, but we'll recruit people to replace them as needed.

That doesn't sound to me like they're quitting, that sounds to me like they'll protest but support Reddit for as much as it takes to still be moderators.