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[–] [email protected] 64 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I bet spez is really regretting that "landed gentry" comment now. IAmA is one of reddit's most well-known communities.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It was a flawed system, but it really benefited Reddit. Volunteer mods did it because they were supposed to be the leaders of their communities and reddit was supposed to just be a platform for hosting them. By attacking that system they removed the main incentive for volunteer mods to exist.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah it really went from "This is your community. You created it and can run it how you want. Reddit is just a collection of loosely-connected, privately-run forums" to "This is my subreddit and I expect you to work for free making it nice for me, even though you created it."

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wouldn't technically moving from hosting communities to having such a heavy involvement in their management be against the safe harbour protection?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

I wonder if he thinks about it at all or if he's got a gang of yes men telling him it's all good.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

Spez pm'd me and said he canceled my AMA because my elbows are too pointy. :(