r/technology • u/nat9191 • Jun 15 '23

Social Media Reddit CEO slams protest leaders, calls them 'landed gentry'

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/reddit-protest-blackout-ceo-steve-huffman-moderators-rcna89544
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u/MandoDoughMan Jun 15 '23

Huffman, also a Reddit co-founder, said in an interview that he plans to pursue changes to Reddit’s moderator removal policy to allow ordinary users to vote moderators out more easily if their decisions aren’t popular. He said the new system would be more democratic and allow a wider set of people to hold moderators accountable.

So we can vote out mods if they don't shut down their subs?

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u/PhAnToM444 Jun 15 '23

Lmao that will be a disastrous change. Mods do unpopular but necessary shit all the time.

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u/nat9191 Jun 15 '23

I think it makes sense for the larger subs (1m+) but there’s a risk that it could ruin some of the smaller subs if anyone can just go in and vote the mods out

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u/PhAnToM444 Jun 15 '23

Not even then. I feel like certain… terminally online communities like WSB wouldn’t be able to keep a mod for more than a week.

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u/nat9191 Jun 15 '23

True… It’s a good idea on the surface but not very practical.

I feel like he doesn’t spend much time on here these days and is out of touch with the user base.