2y ago

Reddit CEO calls unpaid moderators' concerns "noise" - time to send a message he won't forget.

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The man just doesn't know when to stop so he doubles down lol
Ah yes, the "noise" that has literally been keeping your site operating for completely FREE.
- I'm really hoping he does see that Reddit is nothing without its users and treating them badly does have consequences.
  It would be a nice lesson for all of these huge companies to learn.
  
  Sadly it seems most users just go where the critical mass is. They don't see to care the people earning money from it are pieces of shit. They just are where everyone else is. Now, what makes people leave a community in mass, I don't know. Human dynamics are strange.
The bad thing is: the majority of users will continue Reddit in a few days as if nothing ever happened.
- Not even a few days, people are over there celebrating the failure of the blackout already
  
  I just don't get why people work against their own interests, people are just so weird
Well, as far as I'm concerned, unless they forgo charging for API access, I'm not visiting Reddit again, apart from checking the save3rdpartyAPps subreddit. Bit ironic that the protest had been organized on Reddit.
- Then you're never going back. It's absurd to think that Reddit should just let 3rd Party apps have access to its API for free indefinitely. You wanna argue that the price should be sensible? Fine. You wanna argue that the way Reddit has rolled this out is reprehensible? Fine. But to argue that they HAVE to keep giving it away for free? Forever? That's just a ridiculous thing to expect.

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