@AlmightySnoo
These admins are such assholes, they can't even maintain a clear narrative about what they're doing and why. They tell the mods they have to reopen their subreddits because that's what the users want, and of course Reddit administration is looking out for the users! And then when those same mods do a poll of what their users actually want and they get malicious compliance like John Oliver pictures or NSFW content, suddenly that's a violation of the rules. I thought mods were supposed to serve their communities and respond to their desires, as reflected in the polling?

There isn't even a figleaf anymore, they might as well just say "this is bad for the IPO so we're going to screw you over however we feel like any given moment."

I would drape myself in velvet, if it was socially acceptable @ElectroVagrant

@Kombat Yes, it's nice to see the funny rules some subs are coming up with, including all the John Oliver stuff, but I'd like to see more of them just get rid of their rules and allow porn or whatever people want to post. I think that would be much more economically damaging to the company, especially after the mainstream media starts describing Reddit as a porn site.

@Iron_Lynx

@hiyaaaaa23 It's because he's only worried about broader public perception, not the opinions of his own users (except insofar as those impact that public perception). So he goes to the mainstream news media, especially after seeing he didn't have any talent for engaging with the Reddit community in that AMA. The dude's worried about his IPO, and he should be.

@Delete I'm not just learning that admins manipulate Reddit, I've been there since the Digg exodus, I'm just making an observation about the form that manipulation is currently taking. I hope this is acceptable.

@MicroWave I don't know about bots but I think Kbin has a little over 41K users right now: https://kbin.social/nodeinfo/2.0

@whyNotSquirrel I agree with you generally, even though I think it makes sense there's still a lot of Reddit-related news, given this is all going down right now. What honestly bothers me more is when I see a wall of posts that are just about the forum/site/server I'm on, e.g. on Squabbles I swear half the front page at any given time is just users praising the site admin or suggesting new features. I get it, but I feel like the sign of a healthy online community is seeing people posting a variety of interesting content on different topics and having engaged discussions about them. That's why I've been coming to Kbin more and more.