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I feel like maybe you mean this in good faith, but I think you might misunderstand Reddit. The site is moderated by volunteers (who this "extremely rich" compan

I feel like maybe you mean this in good faith, but I think you might misunderstand Reddit. The site is moderated by volunteers (who this "extremely rich" company doesn't compensate) who help curate the information you then find useful. So perhaps when they feel the changes being made make their job harder (making unusable applications they use to assist in moderation and generally support due to the said big company's inability to make any progress on their asks), they withhold their help in keeping those communities moderated.

BoorishBears 3y ago
You think wrong. The disconnect comes from the fact you're applying rational logic to an irrational mob. Mod tools were going to be made worse, sure, but what really drove up the frenzies masses was 3rd party apps. This is predicated by the app debacle, not the mod tools. The app debacle is (again very rich) app developers who had margins of like 99.999% getting shut down. It's too bad. I use some of those apps. It's a shame Reddit wants them to be shut down or made relatively expensive. - At the end of the day it's complete and utter nonsense that unpaid mods get to slam their fists in the pie because they don't like what the chef is doing. They should have walked out. Leave Reddit unmoderated and let it go to the dogs (or force Reddit to actually have to gasp pay for mods). Instead they decided that their will is ultimate because the de-facto person who becomes a Reddit moderator is not to be trusted with any sort of actual power.