“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.
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.
How did volunteers who run reddit’s for-profit business for them for free end up equated with landed gentry?
I think you’re responding to a half-assed attempt at sarcasm. It was spez who originally called mods landed gentry.
Hey now, I’ll have you know I only ever whole-ass my sarcasm!
Maybe so! Always hard to say with the range of opinions I see on the internet these days
-Steve “spez” Huffman, days before he democratically forced protesting subs to reopen and removed mods.
That’s a really good question to ask Reddit’s CEO as he is the one who said that.
Landed gentry is when someone works for no pay in service of a lord, right?
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.