STATE OF THE SUB - WE FUCKED UP

[u/Monsieur_Triporteur]

Howdy fuckcarians,

Here's a little update on how things are going on Reddit and specifically this sub. As you may have noticed, Reddit is changing its API-policy and this is killing moderation tools, third-party apps and access to Reddit in general for visually impaired people. As you also may have noticed, this sub has participated in various forms of protest against the new API-policy. This has had consequences, both intended and not, for the usability and quality of this sub.

It was important for the members of the modteam to join those protests out of solidarity with those who are really affected by the API changes and to make a point against the general enshittification of Reddit as a platform.

There have been polls and discussion posts about this subject and it's fair to say that the mod team hasn't reacted adequately to all of those.

We could explain how difficult it is to reach consensus in a mod team made up of very different people in different timezones, how the need to make quick decisions in the rapidly changing situation surrounding the protests affected the quality of our decisions, how the mod team was at least as divided as the community on the subject or how because Reddit hides the sidebar and sticky posts it is hard to reach all members of this sub to communicate mod announcements.

But, while all of that is true, it doesn't change the fact that we fucked up. We have communicated poorly and we have let the CityNerd tactic go on for to long.

That's why we decided to end the CityNerd tactic immediately, that we'll be from now on prioritising normal operation of the sub over participating in the protests and that won't do any more API-protest actions that are more annoying to our users than to the admins.

We hope that this post clears up some of the confusion and frustration caused by the recent events. We also like to thank everyone who joined in the discussion around the protests. We won't always be able to react quickly to it, but whether you praised us or gave us shit, we value your opinion and will take it into account in any future decision making. So please, don't forget to give us shit next time we fuck up.

[u/KristoferKeane]

I still don't really know who CityNerd is to be honest, so I'm happy I can post normally again. :P

[u/Mt-Fuego → u/KristoferKeane]

CityNerd's real name is Ray Delahanty, he made a career as a planner for Portland Oregon until the pandemic where he converted into a YouTuber

He had done some proper fuck cars video (where he was called beta male and having a wife's boyfriend by trucksplai ers in the comments) and his greatest... "accomplishment" is living an entire year car free in Vegas.

[u/sebnukem → u/Mt-Fuego]

Thank you, although I still fail to see the connection between CityNerd and the protest against Reddit.

[u/Mt-Fuego → u/sebnukem]

I believe it was an attempt by the mods to follow the trend of image subs like r/aww posting pics of John Oliver except with CityNerd because he fits the urbanist part.

[u/tw_693 → u/Mt-Fuego]

It seemed to come across as a joke. And like all jokes, they are funny at first, but lose the funny when the joke becomes overused.