Reddit tried to sticky this post for moderators around 12p CST today, and they’ve since tried to bury it. Thought it might be good to back up the link here.

  • Margot Robbie@lemmy.world
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    At this point, I fully expect reddit to ask the mods to pay a subscription to maintain their mod status in the future.

    Once the floodgate of bad decisions has started, it’s not really possible to stop it.

    • TheFutureIsDelaware@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      “Reddit as a hosting service. We provide you the infrastructure and discoverability necessary to build and maintain a growing community. Yours for only $50/month!”

      • Margot Robbie@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Now imagine companies openly buying moderator positions to take over their own subreddit.

        It can always get worse.

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            1 year ago

            "hmmm. But is there any way we can exploit brown people in some brown country while doing this?’

            all that is missing.

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          The word “openly” is the only thing that separates your comment from currently-happening-reality. Plenty of subs and their mods are bought and paid for.

          Also this whole post from the VP is such a load of shit. “We have a seat for you at the table… if you want it.” Boy only a VP in a big corporation could keep a mouth so loaded with horseshit.

      • chiisana@lemmy.chiisana.net
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        Don’t give them ideas because that’s actually kind of too brilliant for them — instead of selling ads only, also directly sell the user base to interested parties.