Let’s say a Reddit admin announces that they are a Reddit admin. What do you think will happen? How would people react?
Well, I would welcome said admin on the glorious Fediverse and ask how the last few weeks must have been. No need to act like a rabid redditor. We must be better. (Then watch the admin burst into tears, because that was their first friendly human interaction in years)
I too would be very interested in what they have to say, but assuming they’re not Spez, they are just another person working a job there.
Fuck spez
I see “fuck u/Spez” I upvote
I’m glad that you are one of those who isn’t revenge hungry. I was concerned that if they introduced themselves, the mods everywhere would ban them in an act of revenge.
Why should we care one way or the other?
Depends if it’s Spez or not. If not then… tentative welcome I guess.
If it is Spez then, well, pitchforks it is.
Shrug. Welcome to the community, admin.
…are you a Reddit admin?
Cue two spidermen meme
I don’t think any instances would do that but you could just create another account if you are worried.
On Lemmy they are just another user, so who cares?
I think most wouldn’t care, “Your magic has no power here” and all that.
Others might tell them to piss off.
I’m technically a reddit mod, over my own private sub with no one but me in it.
I used to mess around with CSS and even made some reasonably popular themes (not under this username ofc) so I had like 4 private subs.
Everyone would ask them about what was going on behind the scenes and if Spez is as short-sighted as he seems. They’d reply they signed NDAs about most of the questions being asked and quickly regret creating a spontaneous AMA and then never log in under that username again.
What would happen if a Twitter, Facebook, or LinkedIn employee announced where they work?
They would probably get asked about their jobs.Pretty much like this:
I think you’d be better received if you just said you were racist or a bigot… personally IDC if they’re here but if one were to announce as such, I think a shitstorm would forever follow their account. Not the kind of clout one usually seeks.
Most famous people don’t go around letting others know of their social media presence. Anonymity is underrated.
I’m not sure that they would be able to cope to be honest. The power that being an admin, small as it may be, is abused systemically in that organisation. Not sure what they would do if they couldn’t mute/ban anyone and everyone around them.
I was a mod on reddit and it’s honestly a relief to not have that responsibility here. It took a toll on my mental health, cleaning all that shit up twice a day. I have kids IRL, I don’t need to be parenting churlish youths on the Internet, too.
