▲ 1575 ▼ Reddit faces content quality concerns after its Great Mod Purge (arstechnica.com) submitted 3 years ago by fne8w2ah@lemmy.world to c/reddit@lemmy.world 379 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] DudePluto@lemm.ee 28 points 3 years ago (5 children) How did volunteers who run reddit's for-profit business for them for free end up equated with landed gentry? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 10 child comments replies: [–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 17 points 3 years ago (2 children) I think you're responding to a half-assed attempt at sarcasm. It was spez who originally called mods landed gentry. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] DudePluto@lemm.ee 5 points 3 years ago Maybe so! Always hard to say with the range of opinions I see on the internet these days permalink fedilink source parent [–] billiam0202@lemmy.world 5 points 3 years ago Hey now, I'll have you know I only ever whole-ass my sarcasm! permalink fedilink source parent [–] billiam0202@lemmy.world 11 points 3 years ago “And I think, on Reddit, the analogy is closer to the landed gentry: The people who get there first get to stay there and pass it down to their descendants, and that is not democratic.” -Steve "spez" Huffman, days before he democratically forced protesting subs to reopen and removed mods. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Mereo@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 years ago That's a really good question to ask Reddit's CEO as he is the one who said that. permalink fedilink source parent [–] scurry@lemmy.world 5 points 3 years ago Landed gentry is when someone works for no pay in service of a lord, right? permalink fedilink source parent [–] DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 3 years ago I'm certainly not defending spez and I wholeheartedly agree that this business model is daft, but with all that said... for every responsible dedicated knowledgeable reddit mod, there's a dozen who find fulfilment in being fief lords. It was all fun and games until reddit threatened to de-mod them, then suddenly "for the good of the community" they decided that bending over was the only option. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 17 points 3 years ago (2 children) I think you're responding to a half-assed attempt at sarcasm. It was spez who originally called mods landed gentry. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] DudePluto@lemm.ee 5 points 3 years ago Maybe so! Always hard to say with the range of opinions I see on the internet these days permalink fedilink source parent [–] billiam0202@lemmy.world 5 points 3 years ago Hey now, I'll have you know I only ever whole-ass my sarcasm! permalink fedilink source parent
[–] DudePluto@lemm.ee 5 points 3 years ago Maybe so! Always hard to say with the range of opinions I see on the internet these days permalink fedilink source parent
[–] billiam0202@lemmy.world 5 points 3 years ago Hey now, I'll have you know I only ever whole-ass my sarcasm! permalink fedilink source parent
[–] billiam0202@lemmy.world 11 points 3 years ago “And I think, on Reddit, the analogy is closer to the landed gentry: The people who get there first get to stay there and pass it down to their descendants, and that is not democratic.” -Steve "spez" Huffman, days before he democratically forced protesting subs to reopen and removed mods. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Mereo@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 years ago That's a really good question to ask Reddit's CEO as he is the one who said that. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] scurry@lemmy.world 5 points 3 years ago Landed gentry is when someone works for no pay in service of a lord, right? permalink fedilink source parent
[–] DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 3 years ago I'm certainly not defending spez and I wholeheartedly agree that this business model is daft, but with all that said... for every responsible dedicated knowledgeable reddit mod, there's a dozen who find fulfilment in being fief lords. It was all fun and games until reddit threatened to de-mod them, then suddenly "for the good of the community" they decided that bending over was the only option. permalink fedilink source parent