“[this blowup] will pass”
He doesn’t even seem to take this whole thing seriously. “Give it two weeks, those suckers will have forgotten all about this”. It’s insulting.
The key thing will be what the moderators do, they’re the ones with actual leverage. Reddit depends on them doing unpaid labor for the site to function, and while the average user probably just uses the official app and site, the moderators are much more like the third-party app users and often depend on the same or similar tools to do their job. If they take mass action, they could really disrupt things much more than just a temporary blackout. Mass replacement of them would be a lot of hassle, and either lots of money to hire staff to do it or lots of time for fresh new mods to make people angry as they learn the ropes.
But, then again, mods do tend to like the control they get over their little fiefdoms, so I’m not all that optimistic that enough will choose to throw their rings into Mount Doom. We’ll see though.
It’s nothing, it’ll all blow over, they’ll get over it
They’re so angry our employees are in physical danger
I suspect that the truth is he’s feeling a lot of hate just now from the reddit community and he wants the employees to identify with him rather than with the users.
I feel like he might be right though, a blackout is no big deal if it’s only 48 hours. Anything short of leaving and moving to another platform is not something to be taken seriously.
The attitude he seems to have bothers me so much.
I’m afraid he might be right though. Lot’s of people don’t really care and seem to be fine with the official app…
The key thing will be what the moderators do, they’re the ones with actual leverage. Reddit depends on them doing unpaid labor for the site to function, and while the average user probably just uses the official app and site, the moderators are much more like the third-party app users and often depend on the same or similar tools to do their job. If they take mass action, they could really disrupt things much more than just a temporary blackout. Mass replacement of them would be a lot of hassle, and either lots of money to hire staff to do it or lots of time for fresh new mods to make people angry as they learn the ropes.
But, then again, mods do tend to like the control they get over their little fiefdoms, so I’m not all that optimistic that enough will choose to throw their rings into Mount Doom. We’ll see though.
I don’t really care, I’m off Reddit either way.
I CAN DREAM
Yeah, you can’t have it both ways:
I suspect that the truth is he’s feeling a lot of hate just now from the reddit community and he wants the employees to identify with him rather than with the users.
I feel like he might be right though, a blackout is no big deal if it’s only 48 hours. Anything short of leaving and moving to another platform is not something to be taken seriously.