Reddit gives moderators final warning to remove NSFW labels
Reddit controversy continues as the platform has given moderators of several subreddits a final warning to remove the NSFW labels from their communities, or else they will be removed from their moderator teams.
This comes after moderators of several subreddits began labeling their communities as NSFW in protest of Reddit's recent changes to its NSFW content policy.
What are the recent changes to Reddit's NSFW Content Policy?
In April 2023, Reddit made several changes to its NSFW Content Policy. These changes made it more difficult for users to find NSFW content, and they also made it more difficult for moderators to manage NSFW communities.
Some of the key changes include:
- Requiring NSFW communities to be marked as such in their subreddit settings
- Making it more difficult for users to search for NSFW content
- Limiting the visibility of NSFW content in the Reddit app
What is NSFW Content?
NSFW stands for "Not Safe For Work". This type of content is considered to be sexually suggestive, or to contain violence or other graphic content that may not be appropriate for all audiences.
Reddit has a long history of allowing NSFW content on its platform, but in recent years, it has begun to take a stricter stance on this type of content.
Why did moderators start labeling their communities as NSFW?
Moderators of several subreddits began labeling their communities as NSFW in protest of these changes.
They felt that the changes violated their users' rights to access NSFW content, and that they made it too difficult for users to find the content they were looking for.
r/pics moderator has shared this about the situation:
UPDATE: /r/PICS is being forced to break the site-wide rules.
by u/pics-moderator in pics
What did Reddit say in response?
Reddit has said that the moderators' actions are a violation of its Content Policy and Moderator Code of Conduct, and that they must remove the NSFW labels immediately.
If they do not, they will face further consequences. Reddit has not said what the consequences for the moderators would be if they do not remove the NSFW labels.
It remains to be seen how this situation will be resolved. However, it is clear that Reddit is taking a stricter stance on NSFW content, and that moderators who violate its policies will face consequences.
It is possible that Reddit will eventually cave to the pressure from moderators and reverse some of the changes to its NSFW content policy.
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Doesn’t Windows 8 know that www. or http:// are passe ?
Well it is a bit difficulty to distinguish between name.com domains and files for instance.
I know a service made by google that is similar to Google bookmarks.
http://www.google.com/saved
@Ashwin–Thankful you delighted my comment; who knows how many “gamers” would have disagreed!
@Martin
The comments section under this very article (3 comments) is identical to the comments section found under the following article:
https://www.ghacks.net/2023/08/15/netflix-is-testing-game-streaming-on-tvs-and-computers/
Not sure what the issue is, but have seen this issue under some other articles recently but did not report it back then.
Omg a badge!!!
Some tangible reward lmao.
It sucks that redditors are going to love the fuck out of it too.
With the cloud, there is no such thing as unlimited storage or privacy. Stop relying on these tech scums. Purchase your own hardware and develop your own solutions.
This is a certified reddit cringe moment. Hilarious how the article’s author tries to dress it up like it’s anything more than a png for doing the reddit corporation’s moderation work for free (or for bribes from companies and political groups)
Almost al unlmited services have a real limit.
And this comment is written on the dropbox article from August 25, 2023.
First comment > @ilev said on August 4, 2012 at 7:53 pm
For the God’s sake, fix the comments soon please! :[
Yes. Please. Fix the comments.
With Google Chrome, it’s only been 1,500 for some time now.
Anyone who wants to force me in such a way into buying something that I can get elsewhere for free will certainly never see a single dime from my side. I don’t even know how stupid their marketing department is to impose these limits on users instead of offering a valuable product to the paying faction. But they don’t. Even if you pay, you get something that is also available for free elsewhere.
The algorithm has also become less and less savvy in terms of e.g. English/German translations. It used to be that the bot could sort of sense what you were trying to say and put it into different colloquialisms, which was even fun because it was like, “I know what you’re trying to say here, how about…” Now it’s in parts too stupid to translate the simplest sentences correctly, and the suggestions it makes are at times as moronic as those made by Google Translations.
If this is a deep-learning AI that learns from users’ translations and the phrases they choose most often – which, by the way, is a valuable, moneys worthwhile contribution of every free user to this project: They invest their time and texts, thereby providing the necessary data for the AI to do the thing as nicely as they brag about it in the first place – alas, the more unprofessional users discovered the translator, the worse the language of this deep-learning bot has become, the greater the aggregate of linguistically illiterate users has become, and the worse the language of this deep-learning bot has become, as it now learns the drivel of every Tom, Dick and Harry out there, which is why I now get their Mickey Mouse language as suggestions: the inane language of people who can barely spell the alphabet, it seems.
And as a thank you for our time and effort in helping them and their AI learn, they’ve lowered the limit from what was once 5,000 to now 1,500…? A big “fuck off” from here for that! Not a brass farthing from me for this attitude and behaviour, not in a hundred years.