It makes me think kicking t_d off has been worse than they expected or have let on. The last thing they probably want right now is another exodus of users when they’re eyeing an IPO.
And they probably know that these asshole mods won’t put their money where their mouths are and rally their communities to leave for the pathetic cause of censoring people.
I suspect that these moderators are heavily responsible for reduced engagement across the whole site. Enough that they likely know more people leave their domains quicker and with fewer clicks than on non-powermod forums. And after they lost wave after wave of users that were creating content and other subforums are becoming harder to artificially inflate to all.
And they might also be eyeing a porn ban and knowing that these powermods are degenerate pervert they don't care. This might literally play into their plans to remove these advertiser repellent forums and break the powermod stranglehold. If they are doing it right, they will likely softly and quietly suffocate the most extreme porn forums first and work their way up to the major gonewild subs.
I don't get why Reddit seems to be growing a spine now of all things.
It makes me think kicking t_d off has been worse than they expected or have let on. The last thing they probably want right now is another exodus of users when they’re eyeing an IPO.
And they probably know that these asshole mods won’t put their money where their mouths are and rally their communities to leave for the pathetic cause of censoring people.
I suspect that these moderators are heavily responsible for reduced engagement across the whole site. Enough that they likely know more people leave their domains quicker and with fewer clicks than on non-powermod forums. And after they lost wave after wave of users that were creating content and other subforums are becoming harder to artificially inflate to all.
And they might also be eyeing a porn ban and knowing that these powermods are degenerate pervert they don't care. This might literally play into their plans to remove these advertiser repellent forums and break the powermod stranglehold. If they are doing it right, they will likely softly and quietly suffocate the most extreme porn forums first and work their way up to the major gonewild subs.