Agreed. I’m in my 40s, and I’ve never seen anywhere near the level of subsurface signaling and intentional complacency we’re experiencing now.

Well, terrorists became boring, and they still want the loony wing of the GOP’s clicks, so best to back off on Nazis and pro-Russians, leaving pedophiles as the safest bet.

I wonder if that was born of the Dogecoin tipping system that was around for a while in… 2017/2018? I forget.

I’m pretty sure they thought the awards/gilding was going to be their best bet to Moneyville after Premium flopped. It’s basically just a rebranding with the ability to gift it.

Oh, totally. I’m just saying that if all they want is to pump up the valuation to cash out, throw a small bunch of interns on mod jobs for a few months. They could make some statement that the “core” Reddit communities will have in house moderation assisting the volunteer mods, investors happy, value up.

Good point. I think they could navigate around most of the trouble if they get some distance from the protest.

One of three things could happen:

1. Reddit buckles to unhappy investors (whom doubt Reddit brass has control) and actually hires a small group of moderators for subs with X million users or Y activity.
2. They slowly remove them one-by-one, replacing them with mods from other subs. e.g.- Contact the mods of r/(some other picture subreddit), sent them a DM, “We noticed your sub is very similar to r/Pics. To make the community blah blah, we’re trying to expand the mod teams of our most active subreddits. Would you be willing to help mod r/Pics some small amount, and in return we’ll help recruit more mods for r/(some other picture sub)?” Or they’ll frame it as a test strategy or test of new mod tools.
3. Same as #2, but quickly and all protest supporting mods at once. Take the PR hit, counter with “new tools”, ignore the backlash.

The article said that r/Pics and r/military have surrendered for the good of their communities. I mean, r/Pics could make that mistake, but r/military??? You understand it’s MUCH easier to just execute your POWs than treat them humanely, right? Unfortunately, the mods are about to discover there’s no Geneva Conventions for Reddit to prevent just that. Maybe they meant for this to be a teaching moment?

Within the year, once the protests have really died down, those mods will be purged. 100% guarantee it. The ONLY case where they survive is if Reddit wants to show how fair and magnanimous they are to the community. Of course, any further test of that will be get them nuked from orbit.

Not to mention all the journalists scouring the site for stories and onlookers checking out the dumpster fire.

Oh, man, I’m sure the traffic is up… It took me FOREVER to delete all my comments and posts across 18 accounts. That 5 second lockout on API calls is a total bitch!