{"id":106592,"date":"2023-06-28T09:26:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-28T13:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=106592"},"modified":"2023-06-29T10:05:38","modified_gmt":"2023-06-29T14:05:38","slug":"reddit-moderators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/reddit-moderators\/","title":{"rendered":"Reddit Moderators Are Protesting\u2014Here&#8217;s Why"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Why are Reddit moderators protesting? What new changes does Reddit plan to make? How have similar situations panned out in the past?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Volunteer Reddit moderators are protesting a change to the platform\u2019s policies that would potentially put an end to most third-party Reddit apps. Reddit contends the change is necessary to increase advertising revenue and reduce overhead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s a look at the proposed changes, how it would affect Reddit moderators, and examples of similar situations from the past.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-reddit-policy-changes\">Reddit Policy Changes<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>On June 12, 2023, many \u201ccommunities\u201d on the social <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/internet-platform\/\">media platform<\/a> Reddit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/story\/2023-06-12\/subreddits-go-dark-as-users-protest-reddits-new-developer-fees\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">restricted access to their content as a way to protest policy changes<\/a> that the platform recently announced. Reddit communities, also known as subreddits, are much like discussion forums that host posts on a particular topic and are facilitated by volunteer Reddit moderators.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Initially, the participating Reddit communities planned to restrict access for only 48 hours, but some of the most popular ones decided to extend their outage indefinitely, hoping to put more pressure on Reddit executives to revise the policy changes before they\u2019re scheduled to take effect on July 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In an added twist, a hacker group that stole confidential business information from Reddit back in February is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/reddit-hackers-threaten-to-leak-stolen-data-if-company-doesnt-pay-4-5-million-abandon-fees-b0548605\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">threatening to publish that data if Reddit doesn\u2019t capitulate to the protest<\/a>\u2014in addition to paying the $4.5 million ransom that the hackers had already demanded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-what-s-the-policy-change-they-re-protesting\"><strong>What\u2019s the Policy Change They\u2019re Protesting?<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The key issue that Reddit\u2019s moderators object to is the <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/lifestyle\/thousands-subreddits-close-down-go-dark-protest-new-reddit-policy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>new price Reddit will be charging for access to its API<\/strong>,<\/a> or application programming interface, the software that enables third-party apps to access Reddit\u2019s data. Previously, Reddit made its API available for free, unlike most other platforms, which charge a fee for access.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The decision to start charging for access to the API is part of Reddit\u2019s strategy for transitioning from running on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/how-does-venture-capital-work\/\">venture capital<\/a> to becoming a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/self-sustaining-business\/\">self-sustaining business<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-why-is-the-change-a-problem\"><strong>Why Is the Change a Problem?<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Not only are third-party Reddit app developers disappointed because they\u2019ll have to shut down their apps, but many of Reddit\u2019s volunteer moderators say the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/lifestyle\/thousands-subreddits-close-down-go-dark-protest-new-reddit-policy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">third-party apps are so much better than Reddit\u2019s own interface<\/a> that they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2023\/06\/16\/reddit-in-crisis-as-prominent-moderators-protest-api-price-increase.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wouldn\u2019t be able to do their job as moderators without them<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-what-will-come-of-the-protest\"><strong>What Will Come of the Protest?<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Reddit seems committed to implementing their API policy changes in spite of the protest.<\/strong> They expect the subreddits that restricted access to come back online soon. They have also suggested that if it doesn\u2019t happen soon enough, they may <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2023\/06\/16\/reddit-in-crisis-as-prominent-moderators-protest-api-price-increase.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">take steps to remove and replace the moderators<\/a> who are participating in the protest.\u00a0Here are some examples of similar situations from the past.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-tumblr\"><strong>Tumblr<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Like Reddit, <a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/article\/how-tumblr-lost-its-way\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Tumblr was a social media platform that struggled to make the transition from startup venture to profitable platform<\/a>. After launching in 2007, Tumblr\u2019s traffic had grown to 84 million posts per day by 2014. In 2013, the Tumblr startup was acquired by Yahoo, and has since changed hands a few more times.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The common theme is that each owner has tried to make the platform more appealing to advertisers by implementing tighter and more centralized controls over what gets displayed. Since 2018 the company has cracked down on sexually explicit posts in particular.\u00a0These changes might be popular with advertisers, but they\u2019ve been poorly received by users. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-wizards-of-the-coast\"><strong>Wizards of the Coast<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier this year, Wizards of the Coast (WOTC), a game company whose most popular products include <em>Dungeons &amp; Dragons<\/em> and <em>Magic: The Gathering<\/em>, considered a policy revision very similar to Reddit\u2019s.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They had previously licensed all their content under a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ShareAlike<\/a>\u201d Open Gaming License (OGL), meaning that users could freely borrow creative elements from their games to create derivative works as long as the derivative works were also shared under the same terms. This promoted the creation of third-party content for WOTC games and contributed to their popularity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>WOTC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/app\/article\/how-wizards-of-the-coast-stumbled-and-risked-its-dominance-shortform-explainers-shortform\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">considered a revision to their OGL<\/a> that would have required third parties to register the content that they created with the company, empowered the company to censor content that they found objectionable, and forced entities who earned income on their content above a certain threshold to pay a royalty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The revision was leaked to the public before WOTC announced any official changes. When customers heard about it, they expressed their disapproval by seeking out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/product-alternatives\/\">alternative products<\/a> from the company\u2019s competitors. To quell the protest, WOTC made an official announcement that they would not make any immediate changes to their OGL, and would solicit customer feedback before making any changes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-prognosis-for-reddit\"><strong>Prognosis for Reddit<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>As the Tumblr case study illustrates, <strong>appealing to advertisers at the cost of alienating users is a real hazard for social media platforms.<\/strong> And in Reddit\u2019s case, this hazard is amplified by their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/maturity-continuum-7-habits\/\">dependence<\/a> on volunteer moderators\u2014especially right now, when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2023-06-21\/reddit-blackout-previews-social-media-s-future-in-the-ai-era?sref=mIZ1p2Gz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">AI tools are making it easier to flood social media with low-value posts, making content moderators all the more important<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thus, if Reddit insists on implementing the policy changes that it announced, and if the impact on third-party Reddit apps is as severe as the protesters anticipate, it could send the company into a decline, much like Tumblr. It may be too late for Reddit to respond as WOTC did, since, unlike WOTC, they can\u2019t claim that their proposed changes were just a leaked draft of an idea that they\u2019re not going to implement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why are Reddit moderators protesting? What new changes does Reddit plan to make? How have similar situations panned out in the past? Volunteer Reddit moderators are protesting a change to the platform\u2019s policies that would potentially put an end to most third-party Reddit apps. Reddit contends the change is necessary to increase advertising revenue and reduce overhead. 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