“They weren’t elected!” Says the man who is making decisions no one but the wealthy want using authority bestowed on him by the oligarchic rules of the system he helped create.
Someone punch this douche in his face
This guy was once a moderator of /r/jailbait
He doesn’t have shareholders to answer to… Yet…
Maybe when reddit goes public, we should all start buying stock until we can control 51% of it
IPOs are risky, and activist investing is not so straightforward. Better to ignore the stock
They are tenant farmers,. he is the landed gentry. The provide him within income and produce. He provides a cottage and a rusty plough
I do have to give it to the moderators, they made this asshole show his true colors. There’s no going back to Reddit now.
And he brings it up NOW, when the mods collectively did something that threatened his pocketbook, instead of when powermods were running rampant on the default subreddits.
While I support the principle of having mod elections, in practice it doesn’t work for internet communities because there’s really nothing there to fight against vote manipulations.
I do think federated instances will solve this issue though, if the community you subscribe to did something you don’t like, there’s nothing stopping you from just go to another community about the same topic with mods that you do like, because subreddit name squatting is near impossible on Lemmy.
/u/spez is truly a font of strange and wonderful phrases that don’t mean at all what he intends them to.
man’s pulling on his clown suit piece by piece
Tell me you don’t know what ‘landed gentry’ means without telling me you don’t know what ‘landed gentry’ means.
u/spez is a fuckwad with a little dick
I’ll admit I had no idea what it meant, but after reading that comparison to land owners, I was like yeah no that doesn’t make any fuckin sense. Mods make literally no money for their labor.
He Is preparing the field for removing the mods and appointing new mods that “listen” the community (but not really).
AKA scabs
This should be posted on c/reddit, but it is off-topic here.
Interesting spin, considering that posts about the blackout are some of the top upvoted posts in some of the subreddits with 80-90% upvote rate. But sure it is the evil unpaid mods.
I literally smiled and said wtf as I read this headline. The article really makes him sound like a tool that doesn’t appreciate what he has.
Unpaid volunteers famously have too much power
What a fucking liar.
Didn’t basically all of these subs poll the user base? I know squaredcircle did
Somebody’s using the Magna Carta backwards again…
