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Reddit CEO says he’ll change rules to end protest (www.msn.com)
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Main points: He plans to make moderators popularly elected to more easily vote them out.

Hopes the next frontier will be subreddits as businesses.

He does not want Reddit employees to take on the work. Moderator hours were valued at 3.2 million last year, 3% of reddit’s revenue.

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[–] crwcomposer@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah, way fewer people will be willing to put in the effort modding if they can just be voted out. And subreddits that are supposed to represent minority opinions will just get voted out by the opposition.

[–] naeap@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 years ago

yeah, that's the big issue here
how do small subs defend against brigading?