this is how reddit dies. not with a whimper, but with a greedy CEO.

get fucked spez!

https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/147eaw3/rsubredditdrama_is_in_restricted_mode_for_the/jo2duox/?context=3

Have fun paying for moderation or have Spam running rampant. That won't get you out of the red numbers, spez. Just fuel for the fire.

lmao, good fuckin luck replacing dedicated volunteers with one or two shitty ones obsessed with power

This is extremely short-sighted on reddits part, elevating lower mods to leads can cause so much drama in a community particularly when the lower mods don't have experience, the lower mods will probably make basic mistakes that'll turn the average base away from the subreddit.

this is really going to bite reddit in the ass if they try it more its like trying to fix a leak by sticking random objects in the hole

It'll just lead to a general decline in sub quality.

Well here is me abandoning reddit after 10 years. At the end they can do whatever they want with reddit and i can choose in which platform waste my time.

I'm quite happy here now. Given up on reddit. The day Apollo's API key is deleted is the day I edit all of my comments and give up on the platform completely. It's strange I how feel no regret over saying that. It's just the way it's going to be.

Fuck u/spez

This is what we call scab behavior, Kids do not be like this mod, do not be a scabb, if you see a picket line do not cross it. If everyone else is striking join your fellows and strike with them.

Reddit? Are they new? Never heard of it 🤣 Probably won't get very big

Greedy people fuckin' nice things up. Nothing new under the sun.

Well good for them, they can have a lot of fun paying reddit staff to be the mods now.

It’s depressing that I’m not surprised one bit. At this point, I don’t even think it’s worth sticking around until 3PA shut down on the 30th.

So much for all the "oh, it's not hurting our revenue" dismissals.

bootlickers, inc.

This is amazing. So many of reddit's problems I've heard described in terms of the ultimate root issue that the site can never ever violate a mod's god-given constitutional right to keep the subreddit they've started and planted their flag on. So if the mod of /r/news hypothetically just stopped moderating and let the subreddit fall apart and become full of racist shitposts, there's nothing that could be done -- everyone should just move to another subreddit, and all the newbies typing /r/news and ending up in a defunct shithole should just figure it out for themselves. This is how you got all those /r/truexxxxx subreddits. A subreddit was not a democracy, the mod owned it. Even if the whole community wanted something, their will was insignificant before this prime directive.

I always thought this was a strange hill to die on. But seeing reddit say "oh... now that it's inconvenient to us personally, that's a different story"... wow