Makes sense to me. Humans are instinctively opposed to the stronger power when we preceive to have been wronged.
Governments vs business? Government is generally going to be on the losing end, unless the business is clearly in the wrong. (We’ll force government to give power to the people to fight back via unions, or corp wanting to defend the rights of the people when gov wants to restrict it).
Mods have often drawn a lot of ire from their communities, and often rightfully so. But this is business vs an unpaid volunteer. The winner is obvious unless there is some widely known extenuating circumstance or mods undermine the paradigm by upsetting the communities that need to support them.
I don’t want to dislike reddit. They have been better than most everyone else on a lot of things over the years, and having used it for 17 years I’ve seen the ups and downs personally. But things are very different now. They know they can’t win a PR battle, so they’re trying to diminish what’s going on, turn users against mods, and sweep it under the rug as quickly as possible.
Makes sense to me. Humans are instinctively opposed to the stronger power when we preceive to have been wronged.
Governments vs business? Government is generally going to be on the losing end, unless the business is clearly in the wrong. (We’ll force government to give power to the people to fight back via unions, or corp wanting to defend the rights of the people when gov wants to restrict it).
Mods have often drawn a lot of ire from their communities, and often rightfully so. But this is business vs an unpaid volunteer. The winner is obvious unless there is some widely known extenuating circumstance or mods undermine the paradigm by upsetting the communities that need to support them.
I don’t want to dislike reddit. They have been better than most everyone else on a lot of things over the years, and having used it for 17 years I’ve seen the ups and downs personally. But things are very different now. They know they can’t win a PR battle, so they’re trying to diminish what’s going on, turn users against mods, and sweep it under the rug as quickly as possible.