Reddit CEO says he’ll change rules to end protest : reddit

this post was submitted on 16 Jun 2023

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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] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Right? How does he not see that this is a terrible idea.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Probably because he has back end control to make sure elections give him what he wants with the veneer of popular support.