Got the infamous nsfw form letter today. Did my usual long winded rant in response, and signed off with a hearty “fuck spez” lol.
I dunno, I’ve been trying to make it a slow retreat, setting things up to be as annoying as possible. But gods damn, the shitty little form letter just got under my skin.
Told the u/modcodeofconduct account that if they were going to take the sub over, to do it and stfu because my ass doesn’t get paid for this, so their orders and threats have no meaning
Still had to offer the person behind the account the usual willing ear if they needed to vent or whatever.
I mean, can you imagine having that job? Having to spam those form letters, catch blasts of shit in return, and all for a boss as deplorable as huffpig? I mean, yeah, you can quit, but the employees didn’t get much more warning about this crap than the 3rd party devs did. Takes time to find new employment. And it isn’t like reddit is HQd somewhere cheap to live, so unless they work remotely from a much lower cost of living place, it’s extra difficult to make that decision.
Anyway, I just needed a vent tbh. It isn’t like this kind of thing is new lol.
That’s the main reasoning behind Marxism. I don’t disagree with it (far from that!), but it works on a macro- scale, where a social class changes the socio-economic structure. Specific, individual cases - like a single paid employee - are better handled by Tragedy of the Commons*, where each individual agent (in this case, the employee) is looking for the best outcome for himself alone, and expect others to do the same.
Even then, your point makes me rethink a bit on the morality of the person behind u/ModCodeOfConduct, as well as the idea of pressing that person to press their boss. You’ve made me change my mind - perhaps it would be indeed better to “encourage” the person to tell spez to fuck off.
*since you like those economics “games”, you’ll probably aware of the Tragedy of the Commons, and the closely related Prisoner’s Dilemma.
I’m a sucker for this sort of stuff, so thanks for the rec!
Yeah, absolutely!
Yeah you gotta at least give them an out. Always.
I AM :) actually aware of the tragedy of the Commons, and I think the prisoners dilemma is a lot closer to what I was thinking of initially than the dictator game.
Total sidenote, I actually just went to Reddit again for the first time in several days to check on the status of baconreader, the app I used for a very long time, since the app devs only post info there, on their subreddit for some reason. They’re shuttering on the 30th, removing the app from all the stores, and not currently planning a lemmy/kbin app, which is super sad because I love their ux design. It’s so strange seeing all the posts saying goodbye and thanks with all the champagne emojis and tears.