• @[email protected]
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    291 year ago

    How did volunteers who run reddit’s for-profit business for them for free end up equated with landed gentry?

    • @[email protected]
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      171 year ago

      I think you’re responding to a half-assed attempt at sarcasm. It was spez who originally called mods landed gentry.

      • Billiam
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        51 year ago

        Hey now, I’ll have you know I only ever whole-ass my sarcasm!

    • Billiam
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      121 year ago

      “And I think, on Reddit, the analogy is closer to the landed gentry: The people who get there first get to stay there and pass it down to their descendants, and that is not democratic.”

      -Steve “spez” Huffman, days before he democratically forced protesting subs to reopen and removed mods.

    • @scurry
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      61 year ago

      Landed gentry is when someone works for no pay in service of a lord, right?

    • @[email protected]
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      21 year ago

      I’m certainly not defending spez and I wholeheartedly agree that this business model is daft, but with all that said… for every responsible dedicated knowledgeable reddit mod, there’s a dozen who find fulfilment in being fief lords.

      It was all fun and games until reddit threatened to de-mod them, then suddenly “for the good of the community” they decided that bending over was the only option.