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Reddit CEO says he’ll change rules to end protest (www.msn.com)
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Main points: He plans to make moderators popularly elected to more easily vote them out.

Hopes the next frontier will be subreddits as businesses.

He does not want Reddit employees to take on the work. Moderator hours were valued at 3.2 million last year, 3% of reddit’s revenue.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

While undeniably shitty, how amazing would it be if after instituting popular voting on mods more subreddits voted to go private? Not likely but it is tempting

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I feel one of the reasons many subs have not gone indefinitely dark is that the mods too are attached to their communities, and probably rightfully so. If they are going to get booted out, which may easily happen when you leave it up to the Reddit horde to decide, then they might just decide to shut down the sub.

[–] lka1988 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I made a hard decision to leave my sub two years ago; I couldn't keep up with the ever-backing up mod queue, and I was going through a divorce (good thing, I promise), and work was picking up steam. I had adopted it from /r/redditrequest several years ago because it was a fun novelty sub with like 8 posts that had clearly been dead for a couple years, with [deleted] as the creator. I revived it, and now it's a nearly 1.2M user shitposting sub. It's beautiful. It's my baby and all growed up... and it's name is /r/FUCKYOUINPARTICULAR.

Miss that place. They even tried to participate in the blackout.