Huffman has said, “We are not in the business of giving that [Reddit’s content] away for free.” That stance makes sense. But it also ignores the reality that all of Reddit’s content has been given to it for free by its millions of users. Further, it leaves aside the fact that the content has been orchestrated by its thousands of volunteer moderators.
touché
Have you ever visited an unmoderated sub? Without moderators, reddit would turn to shit instantly.
I am not advocating for no moderation. You need some minimal level of moderation to keep spam out. But Reddit’s heavy handed modertion punished any dissent to the subreddit mainstream. Main subreddits were little more than echo chambers.