Main points: He plans to make moderators popularly elected to more easily vote them out.

Hopes the next frontier will be subreddits as businesses.

He does not want Reddit employees to take on the work. Moderator hours were valued at 3.2 million last year, 3% of reddit’s revenue.

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    The last time we tried to get the internet to seriously decide on something we got Boaty McBoatface.

    And lo, the Internet looked down upon it’s handiwork, and verily, t’was awesome.

    All posts in these (business) subs can be advertisements, perfect.

    And nobody will ever go there. And, two years down the track, u/spaz will hoik up the pricing or cut them off entirely because they’re making money off of a non-profitable Reddit. “We want to work with the business subs but they’re not interested in talking to us and have all thrown their toys out of the pram and shut down”.

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      Imo in 2 years down the track reddit will be scrubed of nsfw, and then sold to someone else who will maybe try to integrate it with facebook/other social medias to try and get new users