I mean, it doesn’t really make any sense to keep volunteer-modding over there unless maybe Reddit allows that to be as painless as possible. All the money you SHOULD be paying these people who are the absolute backbone of your entire business model, but AREN’T, should easily justify whatever concessions you care to throw their way, any tools that make the job easier, whatever paltry expense.

But I’m reminded of somebody’s tangential advice about toxic workplaces, saying that if the people you work with daily are toxic, well, you can expect that to be part of the company culture that goes all the way to the top. The behavior is designed, encouraged, by leadership. There are none more entitled than Reddit the company. Thus, it’s community.

So of course anybody with real adult shit to tend to said “get fucked” because nothing else makes any sense. It doesn’t make sense to mod their website with shitty tools for pay, never mind for free. We can expect any competence to go with them. Anybody left over and desperate for mod is pretty suspect, and they’re about to lose all the really effective tools, so good fuckin luck bud.

I think Reddit cruises along like ha ha, we win, for another day, but those answers that everyone has been dipping in for were coming from some of the deepest wells of professional competence on the site. People were seriously like, “how do I solve this weird issue I’m having with Rust”, and they’d get that answer from a subreddit, not even from official docs, not a Youtube, no, Reddit was THE go-to place. r/Excel has taught more people to use the software than Microsoft has. Somebody literally shows up on the job trying to run some Excel so they don’t get fired and r/Excel will sort them right out. It’s one of the nicest places on the site, too. It goes on and on like that, as far as subreddits.

The people who provide such answers, for the good of the community, they can price their hourly rate quite nicely. It sure as hell ain’t “free”. Reddit has been the entire West-coast IT community killing company time, is what it’s been. Everything really valuable about the site has been bought with all that downtime that competent administrators have when they need to be at a desk and look busy while their automated processes do the work.

So everyone who’s worth a damn just threw in the towel. As the quality of moderation tanks, the casual non-mod users who still brought knowledge to the table will get fed up with problems and find another time sink. Soon enough all that’s gonna be left of the place is those miserable hate pits that always climb to the top of r/All. Have fun keeping shareholder value up with that shit.

But I gotta step back from Reddit-posting. Looks like there’s a new game in town. Me, I’m a filthy casual, so I’m just trying to hang on Lemmy and be a bro about it.