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The problem were the mods who didn't know any better. Spez hid his intentions very well, and made all the mods look like fools working for free
In the end it was a subset of users that basically told mods “you’re just janitors, we don’t need you, anyone can do your job” followed by a partial exodus and… a major drop in quality on all but the larger subs.
He did?
Yes he did. People are associating what happened with the short term, ie the last couple of months, but spez has this planned for years when we were all in the dark
Its been obvious for weeks with the slow drip of news, the mods were getting the shaft and nothing was done about it (to my knowledge).
Either they really fear the sobriety from their little bit of authority, there's a movement that's going on in a Discord in a back alley and nobody's said anything, or these people really are rubes, fucking buffoons, absolute morons.
And I doubt the last point because I saw firsthand how Reddit admins quickly turned the argument against the protesting "power-tripping" mods during the API revolt with blatant astroturfing. I saw it. I know it happened, you can't tell me otherwise.