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Reddit CEO says the mods leading a punishing blackout are too powerful and he will change the site's rules to weaken them (www.businessinsider.com)

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[–] Anomander@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In spez's interview with the Verge, he hyperfocused on the fact that locked communities whose "we're locking" posts were comment-disabled would have had a lot of dissent in the comments if the mods had been brave enough to leave them enabled. Completely ignoring, of course, the fact that the upvote ratios told a story of massively overwhelming support.

I think what was even more infuriating was his insistence on validating even the smallest dissent against sub locking as justifying overruling the mods and community, while the entire mess was caused by his refusal to engage in good faith with dissent against his company's decision.

Dissent against mods he also disagrees with is sacred and needs protecting. Dissent against himself and Reddit Inc is meaningless noise that he both doesn't care about and is actively working to silence and prohibit.

[–] harmonea@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

He's been such a mess of lies and contradictions in all this. It'd be funny if it weren't such a sad death knell for a site I genuinely enjoyed.

My other favorite contradiction from that interview was when he claimed that Apollo had millions of subscribers, then claimed it wasn't worth subsidizing the insignificant 10% of the userbase that uses 3rd party apps. Which one is it, spez? Is a single app stealing millions of paying subscribers (which would be only a fraction of free users), or are apps not worth bending to because they're only 10% of your userbase? They can't both be true.