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Comment by LanceH | Hacker News Reader

Same can be said about how they mods are treating the rest of the sub.

How so?

People want to participate in their communities and have access to historical posts and comments. Mods are not letting them do that.

In almost all of the subs I've seen doing this, there were days of polling and discussion ahead of time, with the users themselves demanding the blackout.

A lot of people claiming that the moderators are producing the content when they are more like editors in the scheme of things. Non-moderation redditors are the one producing the bulk of the content.

So I'm saying that the moderators consolidating their whole sub's voices into the voice of the moderator is analogous to how reddit is telling everyone how the site as a whole must be used.

Couldn't agree more. This is a flagrant abuse of power by mods. I hope this is a wake-up call to major companies never to let your employees unionize because the employees don't care about you or your company - they'll kill it just to spite you and then move on to the next company.

Unionize? They aren't even employees, they're unpaid volunteers that Reddit can't afford to replace with actual employees.

What a bullshit take. Employees only tend to unionize when companies don't give a shit about them. Companies that treat employees like people and pay them fairly have much less to worry about

> the employees don't care about you or your company - they'll kill it just to spite you and then move on to the next company.

Ah yes, this is in contrast to the benevolent employers who deeply care about each and every employee and would never lay them off just to buy another ivory backscratcher for the CEO.

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