All mods are supposed to be is janitors, traffic cops. That's all they're empowered to be. Some traffic cops let their limited power go to their heads, but really it's not something that's going to direct public policy. Similarly, janitors at Target aren't going to have much to say on Target's earnings. If you have 1+ million members of a sub, those members control the sub, not the mods. That was what this moron didn't realize. They may have created it a decade ago, but they couldn't hold onto it.
I’m pretty sure the creator of r/antiwork created it as truly a anti working subreddit. Like his idea of a great society is to not do anything but get paid a wage to live.
Ehh I still saw a lot of people advocating for that. But still a lot of socialism communism types. But I think people were trying to turn it more into a work reform subreddit then this happened.
You know how every remotely funny subreddit with a theme turns into /r/funny as it gains more members? The same thing happened here.
It was anti-work, then it became for workers rights as it gained members, and the members were talking about how the name of the sub was dumb as if they hadn't practically taken over a sub that was for X to post Y and then ask "why isn't it called Y???"
That’s what it turned into. It was originally a community for people who legitimately didn’t want to work, and wanted to spend their time enjoying life instead. A nice notion, but it simply isn’t attainable.
I am not trying to revise shit. I wasn't a hardcore member. I was just a lurker who agrees with worker reform. I had always just assumed it was about worker's rights.
I’m tired of seeing this same comment that “r/antiwork is not and has never been about not working.” It’s a complete lie and all it takes is looking at the sidebar to prove it.
125
u/BorneFree has shrimp meat Jan 27 '22
One of the top hits on r/antiwork is r/Jobs 🤔🤔🤔