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Reddit CEO Steve Huffman: 'It's time we grow up and behave like an adult company' (www.npr.org)
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Disappointed that NPR didn't elaborate more on how Huffman truly fucked over Christian Selig.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And, of course, there are the unpaid moderators. He doesn't seem concerned at all that they're "giving it away for free". The experienced power-mods are the ones in the position to put a serious hurting on spez, and I hope they take the opportunity to do so.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They won't. They're drunk on imagined power and will do whatever the platform asks to keep it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

That's exactly why 8000 subs closed to protest! Wait...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, I think the power trip of moderating some subreddit with millions of members is very seductive. Sadly, it seems very seductive to exactly the people I would not want moderating, but I'm sure ousting conscientious moderators for puppet dictators will alleviate this situation in the future of Reddit.

Right? RIGHT?!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them. To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

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