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I'm sure they'll force it to reopen with a new, handpicked mod team that won't do nearly as good of a job.
Force their hand. Reddit needs to learn their actions have consequences. They need to experience firsthand how much higher their operating cost will be if they can no longer rely on free labor for their site to be engaging. They need to learn that their goal of moving to a more ad supported model won't work if they don't have ads to show people.
Also on reflection. I don't think I once saw an ad on Reddit I found interesting or tempting. I get worthwhile ads on Instagram all the time. Maybe reddit needs to reevaluate their marketing departments insights into their userbase instead of rolling out a paid API scheme
There's absolutely no way they won't find suckers willing to mod a megasub for free.
You know, that's a good point. Facebook may be littered with ads, but at least they are relevant to my lifestyle. My wife has purchased a fair few things she saw from Facebook ads. Reddit ads pretty much are universally uninteresting garbage.
Inspectigator: He gets us.
The cynical side of me says that's because they dont collect as much personal data as FB, or aren't as good at extrapolating invasive details from it...
That's what everyone liked about reddit though! That you could be relatively anonymous, I mean. Of course, this had some pretty significant drawbacks too, which is why there's so much unbridled hate speech going on there.
Oh absolutely! Them collecting less personal data (it's reddit, so unfortunately its due to incompetence rather than altruism) is good! I agree that anonymityits a double-edged sword, though.
100% agreed on the quality of ads. I've even ordered a few things off Instagram ads. Reddit? Nah, always crap. And I hate that they made the ads look like normal posts. That's when I started hating them.
I can't think of a better way to put more gasoline on the fire. If it happens I hope the users revolt and completely shit up any sub where they pull this stunt. Let's see how long those new mods last then, and how many advertisers they lose.
Sooooo...1000 days of baby shark? Nothing but baby shark, 1m posts a day.
When your only motive is profit, you will do whatever is easiest to achieve that end
100%. At best they get a couple days and then it’ll be “okay kids you had your fun, parties over and open up. “
If they don’t new mods will be installed.
Some of the more wussy mods have already said that if they protest longer than two days, they’ll be removed.
Those mods therefore intend to keep their position and the protest is only a show. Unless mods are willing to actually leave Reddit, they have no leverage.
agree on that 100%
With a subreddit that popular, I wonder if doing that will just turn it into another Digg/HD-DVD situation. Protest posts inundating the subreddit until it's essentially shut down again.
That's kinda the goal anyway, it will kill the subreddit because they will 100% pick someone who can't mod for shit which will drive away the users.