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Cake day: December 17th, 2023

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  • I mean, when you’re being treated more fairly by your employer, you may not consider that forming a union is still necessary in the inevitable event that they rug pull those benefits at some point.

    And I’ve got nothing against miners (other than standard environmental concerns), but when they keep voting for the people that strip away every small gain their ancestors literally fought and died for, I stop having sympathy.

    Also, what on earth are primarily West Coast based tech workers gonna do about miners in the Virginias? There’s an entire continent between them.



  • I mean, for years and years, even after the dotcom bubble, developers have been able to get crazy high salaries, job security, and tons of other perks. Now that that’s gone, at least they’re doing something. So many other professions just rolled over and let the businesses fuck them (looking at you, every industry from Virginia down, especially mining)

    Edit: the comment I’m replying to says “tech workers”, not just game devs. Game devs have unfortunately always been the poorly treated little black sheep of the tech world.











  • Yes.

    Wishing violence on someone, no matter how deserved, is against reddit TOS.

    Doing anything at all that an advertiser might not like isn’t officially banned, but the second admins take over it’ll be all but the official policy. A doctor wants to complain about an insurance company that might advertise on Reddit? [Removed]. Want to ask about your symptoms of a drug that advertises on Reddit? [Removed].

    Admins are just reddit employees and have to do whatever is best for reddit, which under spez means being as advertiser and AI friendly as possible.

    Beyond that, admins can’t be fucked to respond quickly when users are doxxed, harassed, or threatened with death. And this is in a discord/slack designed to let moderators communicate with the admins. Why would they respond to anything users say on a single subreddit if they can’t even respond to dozens of mods being threatened without a board meeting first? Heaven forbid some major issues come up that need seeing to, cause the admins will not do anything.

    I passed along dozens of instances of harassment, doxxing, death threats, and straight up CSAM, many of which were directed at me, inclusing having been DMed CSAM images. It would always take the admins days or even weeks to respond. When someone attempted to doxx me (with incorrect info), it took the admins nearly 2 weeks to ban the user.

    I know to a lot of people this reads like the moderators just giving in to the admins, and it is, but until more and more people move here or somewhere else, reddits the main place for these groups, and therefore they have to play by reddits rules, because breaking those rules hard enough is the only time admins give a fuck, and that does not end well for users or mods.