Ars spoke with community mods about where Reddit goes from here.

Here’s an interesting ARS article regarding the Reddit fiasco, but from the moderators’ perspective.

  • XiELEd
    40•2 years ago

    It’s funny how he calls the moderators landed gentry, when he is the one benefitting from the mods’ unpaid labor, all because they wanted to maintain their community, and then calls them squatters. In my culture, that sort of language means that he’s trying to mock the moderators for being squatters “aspiring to be landed gentry”… then if you put his comments about owning slaves in an apocalyptic scenario into perspective… honestly I have no words left.
    And all those “subtle insults” for the community just makes me wonder, why do people even want to benefit him, or be associated with him? This man was the ultimate reason why I left, not even the fact that I was a 3rd party user.

    • CynAq
      28•2 years ago

      Dude is an absolute narcissist. The way he understands the world is in leader-follower hierarchies. He likes the position of power he’s in and absolutely can’t stand there are other people with power, especially if those people’s power is a necessity for maintaining something rather than ruling something.

      He can’t understand third party app developers do it because they love reddit and want to make it easier and more fun to use. No, they must be doing it because they can’t build another reddit and want to feel like they own something they can’t. He can’t understand moderators are mostly people who are trying to keep the communities they love alive against all sorts of situations which can drive members away. No, they must be doing it because they want to have power over people, and the more their community seems to like them, the more proof it is of how well the moderator manipulated them.

    • @Mistymtn421
      14•2 years ago

      Exactly! I was a bit on the fence in the beginning, figured I would survive the demise of baconreader and use the web. Then they played the game with blocking the mobile browser, restoring deleted comments and resubbing, which is bonkers. Now with the latest news, there is no way for me to support this company. After 13 years I am done.

      • @generalpotato
        1•2 years ago

        Are they really blocking the mobile browser? I think I may missed this bit of news.

        • @Mistymtn421
          3•2 years ago

          The comment I saw said it was experimental iirc.

          With all the buzz this week I wouldn’t be surprised if they try to force everyone to the app eventually.

          • @generalpotato
            1•2 years ago

            Thanks! Just terrible, can’t recall last time a social media platform fumbled this bad.

    • bmoney
      5•2 years ago

      its convenience

      reddit has become too easy so people dont care i guess

      i dunno man, its wild to me