• DudePluto@lemm.ee
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      How did volunteers who run reddit’s for-profit business for them for free end up equated with landed gentry?

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        1 year ago

        I think you’re responding to a half-assed attempt at sarcasm. It was spez who originally called mods landed gentry.

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        “And I think, on Reddit, the analogy is closer to the landed gentry: The people who get there first get to stay there and pass it down to their descendants, and that is not democratic.”

        -Steve “spez” Huffman, days before he democratically forced protesting subs to reopen and removed mods.

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        That’s a really good question to ask Reddit’s CEO as he is the one who said that.

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        I’m certainly not defending spez and I wholeheartedly agree that this business model is daft, but with all that said… for every responsible dedicated knowledgeable reddit mod, there’s a dozen who find fulfilment in being fief lords.

        It was all fun and games until reddit threatened to de-mod them, then suddenly “for the good of the community” they decided that bending over was the only option.