The landed gentry are only in charge until the king comes to town and chops off a few heads. At least that seems to be the case at Reddit, where CEO Steve Huffman pretended his complaints about cur…

The landed gentry are only in charge until the king comes to town and chops off a few heads. At least that seems to be the case at Reddit, where CEO Steve Huffman pretended his complaints about current moderators — who were protesting his decision to effectively cut off API access to tons of useful…

  • alaphic@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    So, shall we start calling this ‘the Reddit Effect?’ We haven’t had anything new to supplant the Streisand Effect for awhile, I feel like something like this is overdue

    • catwhowalksbyhimself@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      So the Reddit Effect would be a company trying to do something to raise it’s value or make it look good that has the opposite effect?

      I don’t think there’s another name for that, so sure, why not?