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Reddit's pathetic attempt to quash dissent
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this post was submitted on 19 Jul 2023
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Not a great situation overall. Sounds like they're scrambling to give some semblance of support for mods, seems a little late now guys
I think Reddit got caught off guard by the mod issue, but were in too deep in trying to kill third party apps to do anything about it.
That we're in the third week of July and Reddit hasn't gotten back to normal must be hard for them to understand.
Feels like they need them for unpaid work, but also don't want to give them too much power. A pretty interested conundrum. Glad I'm not spending effort maintaining a subreddit given how thankless the job is 🤯
The CEO decided to flex and disregard massive blowback at an unpopular change. He marginalized his dissenters in interviews, saying shit that implied the dissenters were childish and their impotent tantrum will run out of steam.
For the CEO of the biggest internet social platform, he has no fucking idea how volatile the internet temperament is. You don't just poke the bear and walk away unscathed.
He fails to realize how fickle internet communities can be. It should be obvious based on what happened to Digg and Slashdot. If you mess with your users, they'll just leave. They should have been trying to keep them happy, not doing everything they can to alienate them. Reddit could have reached their profitability goals without making everyone mad. Instead they just keep digging their grave deeper. This lazy attempt to mitigate dissent means nothing, the damage is beyond repair.
The best thing reddit could come up with is... More unpaid work for mods to do!
I know I love making time on a busy work day to volunteer for a large company that doesn't respect my efforts. Maybe they'll send me a sticker or something.