To be honest, I find it a bit of an odd stance for them to take. To me, they, along with several of the other large subs, have never really seemed that interested in running their sub that well or in the interest of the community. You get into this situation where you have a big sub, millions of users, maybe a couple dozen mods, but out of those 2 dozen mods like 3 or 4 are active, and if you’re lucky, one actually cares. You then run into a situation though where you have might have one mod who cares, but that particular sub has some kind of weird mod hierarchy where they can’t even do much about it. The hoops you have to jump through to get them to deal with obvious karma farming bots, or for them to apply rule 1 without bias are far too many. I can remember a number of years ago, when they used to have the /r/videos meta sub, one of the mods directly said that they considered ‘clickbait’ titles to be a violation of Rule 5 but you’d never see them enforce it. The sub was probably fine if you came by once a month or something. But if you were one of those people who had a daily routine of say browsing reddit every morning after getting up, and /r/videos was a regular stop for you, it really didn’t take long for the sub to start to wear on you.

One thing I hope we’ll see in whatever the new hotness is, is more diversification in where discussions take place and where links and things are shared. The fact that most if it goes through maybe 2 dozen subs and a lot of mods in them are quite checked out really soured the experience.