Reddit protest updates: news on the apps shutting down and Reddit’s fights with mods
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That’s one way to protest.
In response to CEO Steve Huffman’s characterization that Reddit moderators are like the “landed gentry” and him saying that Reddit make changes to let users vote out mods, r/PoliticalHumor has embraced “pure democracy” in the subreddit and is letting all users be mods.
Reddit has paid lip service to their moderator-users for years, perpetually insisting that communication and mod tools would quickly improve after a stumble like this one. We’re cutting all of that out and bringing power directly to the people so that we can show the brilliance of Spez’s idea today, rather than waiting years for reddit to develop it.
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