Reddit CEO slams protesters, says he'll change site rules
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Steve Huffman, the Reddit CEO, told NBC News in an interview that a user protest on the site this week is led by a minority of moderators and doesn’t have wide support.
  • penguin_ex_machina@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    If you’re a politician or a business owner, you are accountable to your constituents. So a politician needs to be elected, and a business owner can be fired by its shareholders,” he said.

    Someone get this man a hearing aid, because he’s gone completely tone deaf.

  • Barbarian@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    2 years ago

    With bigger subs, this strategy may actually work. A lot of Redditors just want to scroll, and they want their content. They don’t care how it gets there.

    • RamesesKnibs@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 years ago

      Yeah I’m seeing that a lot. Floods of comments about how dumb the blackout was and that they just want to browse Reddit. I know r/SquaredCircle pledged to go dark indefinitely and there was a lot of outrage about it. I’ll be very interested to see if it comes back as that was a sizeable subreddit

      • AFK BRB Chocolate@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 years ago

        I’ve read that, at times in the past, Reddit has used bots or plants in comment threads to stear the conversation. It makes me wonder if any of that is happening now. I’m not much of a conspiracy theorist, but at this point I have very little trust in the Reddit staff.