Victoria 3 subreddit mods#
Limitation: I do not currently have access to the private subreddits where moderators of top subs discussed their decisions and goals, nor the conversations between mods and the company.Historical records of other times that moderators made subreddits private.Notable discussions in “meta-subreddits” where users from across the site reflected and responded to the issue.“We’re back” discussions, where moderators justified, defended, or apologized for the decision to go private.Around 50 discussions in subreddits that chose not to go private (I’m still adding to this).Hundreds of discussions in subreddits debating if they should go private.Over a hundred of messages stating why “this subreddit is private” during the blackout.Data on which subreddits went private, and by implication, which did not.Over 500 links that appeared in the Reddit Live feed on the blackout, a feed maintained by Reddit users.Since the blackout started, I have spent most of my waking hours archiving and reading material about the controversy, including: Finally, I have personal experience facilitating and moderating a high profile online community, The Atlantic’s Twitter book club, which I moderated from 2012-2014. I also collected summary statistics from the Reddit API to understand how many moderators there are. Read more about my methods, ethics, and promises to Reddit users here.Įven before this weekend’s controversy, I had analyzed 50 interviews with groups of subreddit moderators, constructed a historical timeline on the history of the idea of subreddits and the role of moderators, followed hundreds of job board postings where moderators apply and accept moderating roles, and watched videos about the work of moderators. They’ve had a hard enough week without me sending more attention their way. In this post, I avoid linking or directly mentioning specific Reddit users or subreddits for research ethics reasons. Who’s In The Majority? What Do “Reddit Users” Think?.What Were the Consequences of Taking Subreddits Private?.How Did Moderators Decide to Take Subreddits Private?.What Does It Mean to “Go Dark,” “Go Private,” or “Black Out” and is This A New Thing?.How Do You Become a Moderator on Reddit?.I hope this post is useful to journalists writing about the Reddit blackout, and I hope that Reddit moderators read this too, so you can tell me what I am getting right, what I’m misunderstanding, and what conversations I’m missing. I’ve resisted commenting, because we often want easy answers in the heat of the moment: will Reddit survive, what do I think about Reddit CEO Ellen Pao, are moderators are exploited labor, a “product being sold” to advertisers? In my research this summer, I’m trying to go beyond these important, near-term questions to understand the work that Reddit moderators do and how they see it.Īlthough it’s too early to share my results, I *can* share some of what I’ve found. This story was covered widely in the press last weekend, with the MediaCloud project tracking 92 articles in the mainstream media and 51 in its “tech blogs” dataset.Īs a PhD candidate spending my summer researching the work of moderators on Reddit, I’ve been asked repeatedly by journalists to share my results. Reddit’s management responded within hours, apparently after substantive negotiations with moderators, and promised to meet those demands. What may not have started as a protest quickly became one, with many moderators complaining that the company needed to offer better communication and better tools to its volunteer moderators. Last Thursday and Friday, moderators of many of Reddit’s most popular discussion groups “blacked out” their subreddits, preventing access to parts of the site by Reddit subscribers and cutting off some of the company’s advertising revenue for half a day.
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