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by aerostable_slug 1464 days ago
Video player fixes? Nope.

Search being an open joke? Not going to even look at it.

Purchase a few ML people? Oh that will surely increase our valuation.

Do something about toxic supermods? That's a feature.

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> Do something about toxic supermods

I got banned for a year from Armenia sub for criticizing an Armenian politician from the ruling party (who has been involved in a bunch of corruption scandals, including fake companies winning tenders under his grandma's name). The country subs, especially in post-USSR space, are run by ruling party representatives who tolerate zero dissent.

Shadowbanned (through automoderator) from all Dutch subs (same clique of moderators) for no apparent reason and mods won't even respond to my messages. Apparently I'm far from the only one this has happened to.

If Reddit doesn't do itself in it'll be the moderators ruining their own communities.

Banned from GreenAndPleasant for hinting that trans charities weren't more important than regular charities
They somehow managed to make the video player worse recently by removing quality selection and having only "auto" that drops down to 1 FPS 240p on a gigabit pipe with no issues anywhere else. Pretty impressive.
Reddit is a private subsidiary of a large private company, so I'm not sure why their valuation matters.
Reddit is in the process of going public. They began filing last year.
But why?
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