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…

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    1 year ago

    At the end of the day, Reddit is just a message board. The absolute hubris to think that one could seriously go public with a message board website… It’s baffling.

    Honestly, Reddit missed the ship to IPO. They should have done it a decade ago if at all.

    Without mods, Reddit will become overrun with bots, rendering the precious data Reddit so desparately tries to monetize practically useless.