at which point the old stuff is somehow "not free speech" or "not democratic" enough for them anymore
whats up with that :)
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in reply to @vogon's post:
u/SadLittleKingOfASadLittleHill thinks the serfs are getting a bit too loud
he also apparently said "reddit wasn't built for third party apps" which is a FUCKING WILD thing to say when reddit's app (and twitter's, which is a thing he also talks about) were originally third-party apps — alphy
I know commenting before reading is bad form, but felt compelled to say that pouring gasoline on the active tire fire you're CEO of is an incredibly bold move
the full article has not really changed my first blush impression
ah tbf they should let him cook
until he's well done, at least
🙊 yep, as a fellow social media professional it would be impolitic of me to mention it by name but there's plenty of information about it online
Even odds he learned that term from the recent season of "The Mandalorian"
Overall it does not seem like the kind of attitude that is going to aid in recruiting a new class of moderators or making those new moderators feel like they are valued and supported by the company
Maybe they think they can recruit new moderators based entirely on a corporate toadyism criteria?
yeah, if anything I think it's going to result in the moderator class becoming mostly people who desire and can afford to be moderators in their spare time, which historically has not made groups of people consist of fewer landed gentry
It also means reddit's going to have basically the same set of moderators as 4chan
I typed it and deleted it but yeah, I can imagine a group of ideologically motivated persons who might jump at the chance to get mod power on major subreddits in exchange for the reddit structure letting them back on the site
this precise thing will absolutely happen. I would have jumped at that shit as a teenager, I was a dork-ass loser and reddit is filled with kids like that
it's usually not very hard to recruit unpaid volunteer moderators. there's always going to be people willing to accept it, either because they think they can single-handedly resolve whatever little issues they have with the community, or because they just like the veneer of power and authority
that said, I think "landed gentry" works as a comparison, at least from his own perspective as a king who couldn't manage all his territory himself and delegated the control to a bunch of vassals who would rule that land for him according to the rules and traditions of the realm. and now that the king himself has violated those traditions, he's mad as hell to find that the vassals are taking up arms against him
I like the bit where the article points out that paying every mod $20 an hour would cost 3% of reddit's annual revenue.
