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The writing has been on the wall for years where they have prioritized features nobody wanted over features mods and regular users have requested for a long tim
by tnecniv 3y ago
The writing has been on the wall for years where they have prioritized features nobody wanted over features mods and regular users have requested for a long time.
The other damaging thing is they have demonstrated any written policy is irrelevant and they can change the rules at any time. While they have every right to do so as the owners of the platform, it violates the social contract between the admins and users. I’d certainly not want to provide free labor for a company that doesn’t appreciate that labor and changes the rules surrounding my work on the fly, even if it’s a labor of love for a community I enjoy.
- brailsafe 3y agoProviding free labor for any specific company is a bad idea unless you earn something of equivalent value to the money you'd have otherwise made in return; I think people have an inflated sense of the derived value they get from moderation or using any given platform. Open source has the potential to be that as well, only usually offering a tenuous value proposition for the people working on it, but a very obvious value proposition for the companies using it.
- dredmorbius 3y agoYep. That's why I'd dialed back my own usage and refrained from posting new content to my own subs years ago. It was was made painfully clear, razors-to-eyballs, that Reddit-corporate's direction and my own interests had little if any intersection, and that that set was decreasing over time. That said, events of this past May and onwards have finally prompted me to take those subs private.