“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.
Won’t someone think of the poor landed gentry!?
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.