• fidodo@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    It was a flawed system, but it really benefited Reddit. Volunteer mods did it because they were supposed to be the leaders of their communities and reddit was supposed to just be a platform for hosting them. By attacking that system they removed the main incentive for volunteer mods to exist.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah it really went from “This is your community. You created it and can run it how you want. Reddit is just a collection of loosely-connected, privately-run forums” to “This is my subreddit and I expect you to work for free making it nice for me, even though you created it.”