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Reddit faces content quality concerns after its Great Mod Purge
(arstechnica.com)
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this post was submitted on 04 Sep 2023
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No comment. Moderators are the key to Reddit's success, and they have been treated like shit and will continue to be treated like shit.
Jesus. I can from time to time, I used to be a regular on /r/canning. The attention to detail re food safety was one of the best things about the sub, as you really can kill yourself and others if you piss about.
Botulism is nothing to fuck around with. I'd rather play with something safe like burning thermite than that stinky crap ever again.
Botulism has no smell, taste or colour change though.
Then that can of food was contaminated with something else as well. It definitely had botulism in there though with that bulge.
Won't someone think of the poor landed gentry!?
How did volunteers who run reddit's for-profit business for them for free end up equated with landed gentry?
I think you're responding to a half-assed attempt at sarcasm. It was spez who originally called mods landed gentry.
Maybe so! Always hard to say with the range of opinions I see on the internet these days
Hey now, I'll have you know I only ever whole-ass my sarcasm!
-Steve "spez" Huffman, days before he democratically forced protesting subs to reopen and removed mods.
That's a really good question to ask Reddit's CEO as he is the one who said that.
Landed gentry is when someone works for no pay in service of a lord, right?
I'm certainly not defending spez and I wholeheartedly agree that this business model is daft, but with all that said... for every responsible dedicated knowledgeable reddit mod, there's a dozen who find fulfilment in being fief lords.
It was all fun and games until reddit threatened to de-mod them, then suddenly "for the good of the community" they decided that bending over was the only option.