Turning everyone into mods is a horrible idea, because reddit will hand over ownership of any sub doing any kind of protests to the first mod that contacts them and asks for it. At least one sub was taken over because of that by a person who had basically no clue about what they were doing.

It's dangerous and just asking for Reddit to take over.

Which isn't mutually exclusive, plus he can't really talk about any planned sales before they are actually announced anyway.

So the Reddit Effect would be a company trying to do something to raise it's value or make it look good that has the opposite effect?

I don't think there's another name for that, so sure, why not?

And that is exactly why I am here now. I didn't care that much for the API protests at all. Thought they were pointless. But this behavior meant that they were violating the very thing the made reddit, reddit. If subs weren't spaces that anyone could use to try to carve out their own communities, then what is the point?

Furthermore, they aren't even violating the code of conduct they are using to do this, so clearly all of Reddit's promises are now worthless.

Well, as other people have said, it looks like they were preparing to sell Reddit, or take it public, or whatever, and they wanted to make it look as profitable and purchaseable as possible.

The end result is the same, but the reasoning is a bit different.

Anyhow, if that's true, I dare say they've achieved the opposite result now.

It's also the no 1 best selling video game of all time, by a sizable margin, so it would be a big deal regardless.

This kind of behavior is what got me to join Lemmy just now. (this is my first ever post in fact.)

I really wasn't even onboard with the boycott. I thought it was silly and pointless and was planning to just stay on reddit, but then he had to tantrum like a child and go against the very spirit and point of reddit in process.

So here I am. I haven't deleted my years old reddit account yet, but I probably will at this point. This lemmy federation thing seems like it will do quite nicely.