But right now it’s bringing eyeballs to see the spectacle. To be effective these need to persist long past the point where it isn’t “fun” anymore.
Spez likely is looking at this and seeing:
He can make mods jump by threatening to move ownership of the subreddit
Numbers are up as people engage with this fad
Once users tire of this he can trot out the same threats and take over the subreddits anyway
Edit: just to make it clear I’m not saying I think this is fine for Reddit long term. I’ve just had this conversation with too many MBAs to not know this is how they’d look at all of this.
I suppose the only caveat to that is the fact that mods are unpaid volunteers, if they all downed tools it would take both time and costly resource to replace them which would hurt the bottom line when theyve been reliant on unpaid labour for so long.
But right now it’s bringing eyeballs to see the spectacle. To be effective these need to persist long past the point where it isn’t “fun” anymore.
Spez likely is looking at this and seeing:
Edit: just to make it clear I’m not saying I think this is fine for Reddit long term. I’ve just had this conversation with too many MBAs to not know this is how they’d look at all of this.
He still have to explain to his investors when they go public why his users are trying to kill the site…
I suppose the only caveat to that is the fact that mods are unpaid volunteers, if they all downed tools it would take both time and costly resource to replace them which would hurt the bottom line when theyve been reliant on unpaid labour for so long.