[EA-3167]

What does that really accomplish? Reddit mods are often bad enough as is, imagine what Reddit scab mods would be like.

It would also be a huge invitation for the displaced the rest to make life unbearable for those new mods and the handful of admins overseeing them. Reddit as a community would make for one hell of an intellectual DDOS.

[falcolas]

> What does that really accomplish?

To borrow from another comment buried below: I think the company cares more about the appearance of "business as usual" in the face of an IPO than the opinions of the users.

In their eyes, this is all nothing more than a tempest in a teapot; a small pothole on the road to public investor dollars.

[EA-3167]

I can sort of understand the mentality, but right now Reddit looks like a terrible IPO prospect. It isn't profitable, it's poorly managed, lacks transparency, depends on volunteers to function on a daily basis, and when they make a move to make themselves profitable their user base rebels in a fairly public and humiliating way.

All of this in the post-Fed rate hike world where money isn't free. Besides I feel it's important to remember that Reddit has been talking about an IPO for many years, and I doubt it's going to happen now.

[NikkiA]

> depends on volunteers to function on a daily basis

it depends on volunteers to function at all. Posters and commenters are volunteer too, which is something reddit oft seems to forget.

[bitshiftfaced]

I seem to remember someone saying something about how a small number of users mod the vast majority of Reddit in terms of the number of users within the subreddits they control. I wouldn't be surprised if there was a black market for mod status. Might not be such a bad thing if the establishment was totally uprooted.

[duxup]

I suspect that still results in a huge amount of moderation work to do … Reddit’s advantage is that people do that for Reddit for free.

[evan_]

> a small number of users mod the vast majority of Reddit

I think it's more like there are a small number of users who are mods on a huge number of subs, but there are other mods that focus more directly on the actual moderation of those subs.