On a sunny day walking on a trail, one can’t help but to contemplate all they are going to do when they are out of the woods and back home. By that point all they are going to remember is the thinly veiled threat. They are not going to last long.
Reddit was fun. That was really the only thing everyone need and everyone want. All the utilities that comes with the scale is just derivatives. With the way they decide to go forward, modding for reddit will never be fun ever again.
Replaced with who or what?
What’s there to take? Like, these guys are working for free running on their enthusiasm and passion. You make them question whether the community is really worth their time, even if they relent for now, how does that do reddit any good? It isn’t like reddit has any actual power over the mods on their ultimate decision of quiting.
Which is fine. Do you really think a bunch of people who don’t care will build a thriving community after Reddit hammers them once, twice, three times, over and over?
Then they will say it is more efficient to merge the donations with regular revenue and make bulk donations every quarter or something.
I mean, if they say “you have to pay 3 bucks a month to use 3rd party client” I would be annoyed but I would understand, and I would still be on reddit.
Hey I am sorry you have to learn it this way, but yes, you do get a party hat too. I got my right here.