[dryark]

The issue in the case of Reddit is that this affects the moderators, who are doing a significant amount of work for Reddit for nothing but kudos/fame.

Many/most of the moderators of popular subreddits are using 3rd party tools to do their moderation as the 1st party tooling for it is terrible.

My understanding is that this will cause moderators to have to begin paying for their API usage, which many moderators of popular subreddits are unsurprisingly angry about and are threatening to close/make-private their subreddit when this change occurs.

It is perhaps reasonable for Reddit to want users who are skipping their ads via 3rd party tools to have to pay to do so, but it is unreasonable to expects subreddit moderators to have to pay to donate their services to Reddit.

[hsjqllzlfkf]

Moderators should be paying. They're doing the job for nothing but the fun of it, so they're getting something out of it. Makes sense that they pay to continue.

[dryark]

Based on the responses of many mods of huge communities it doesn't seem they agree with you.

[hsjqllzlfkf]

Well of course they wouldn't say it, everything else being equal more money is better.