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by csomar 1106 days ago
Their whole business model is that you have free labor to moderate the subs. They can't afford to pay for all subs and will become centralized in a few subs only.
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As the front page of the Internet, I would hope someone there has enough imagination to find a way to pay the people that do the work. If not, do we really have an Internet?
Front page of the internet? Please. It's not that important.
They were referencing reddit's slogan, although I don't know if they still use it anywhere.
It's in some of the older CSS still, last I checked.
It's the <title> on old.reddit.com still.
Yeah, that's right up there with "Free, and always will be", except there's different costs not covered by that free.