A possible problem is that they would be forced to find new volunteers to run them. While I bet there's many who want to be "gods" I bet it's harder to find people who can do it well enough to run a 10+ million forum. Especially hamstringed by reddits lack of modtools.

So sure, Reddit can remove the mods and do it multiple times but it will continuously lead to a worse experience and sooner or later an unacceptable amount of spam, hate and CP will cause the advertisers to pull their ads.

With deep fakes all around you can't really trust a phonecall just because you believe that you recognise the voice 😉😆

It might be as Louis Rossmann said, it was a mistake to say "we're going black for two days. They should've just says "were going black until you cange the rules again".

I recently had the misfortune of trying to fix a problem on my kids windows computer and it's striking the difference between Linux and windows forums.

A Linux forum:
"RTFM but here's four commands that will fix your problem plus fix a bunch of things you didn't even know you had a problem with"

A windows forum:
"My name is Mr Anderson and has been awarded high quality question answerer three years running plus best cut lawn by the HOA. I am not affiliated in any way with Microsoft so don't go running to them if you mess up your computer.

Here is fifty eleven things to click on that is highly dependent on the language set on the computer and which is likely changed by Microsoft since I wrote this. The instructions are also highly general and in no way specific for your actual problem."

Companies would rather cut their noses of in the end of a quarter, to claim a weight loss, than do something that would spell positive results for its lifetime...

This is due to a murder that happened at an IKEA a couple of years ago. The murderer used knives from the department store.

That won't help, you need scissors to open the packaging for knives from IKEA.

I like the malicious compliance but I find that to be a bad way to do a poll. Better would have been one comment with the text "Upvote if you want John Oliver pics, downvote if you want it to go back to normal".

The way they did it if one group only upvote their alternative and the other also downvotes the opponent then the result isn't representative. Or at least could be claimed not to be.

And the extra costs to support a feature I never use.

Jepp, framförallt att det är ett öppet nätverk som inte är kontrollerat av något enskilt företag. Det är så här internet ska fungera, inte ha alla äggen i en korg.

Tackar, blir intressant att se om det här tar fart eller ej.

Exactly who knows!?
But in all seriousness, considering how large the company seems to be with outsourcing and multiple internal levels of support, it sounds like a juicy target both for ransomware and industrial espionage.

I've had my fair share of fixing on my Linux box, but I never get anywhere near as angry/frustrated as I do any time I have to fix things on my kids windows computers.

Här är förresten en enskild ica-handlare som bojkottar: https://www.expressen.se/tv/nyheter/ica-handlaren-rear-ut-ryska-produkter-ministern-hyllar/

Säljer ut deras produkter och ger pengarna till välgörenhet.

From a business standpoint I would never want to hire that accountant. If he openly talks about employees that way and being a bad customers to others he would probably also be a very bad supplier.

Det överraskar mig att företagen faktiskt väljer att bojkotta Marabou. Det är väl inte direkt vanligt i Sverige? Undrar om någon av de stora kedjorna tänker följa efter.

It's easy to get stuck in a filter bubble though.

And he wasn't sure if he at all was going to publish it. I believe it was his wife who convinced him. Unfortunately people didn't/don't understand the point with the book, ie this is a bad thing to do.

Conspiracy theory it is. What has happened to the internet is much more easily explained by capitalism. This is what capitalism does.

I bet that you don't need to follow that conspiracy theory very far before you find someone spouting the old classical antisemitic bullshit.

My colleagues while brainstorming: "That was good. Say it again!".
Me: "Sorry, I don't listen to me when I'm talking".