Thank you for respecting my views even when they disagree with your own.
You could be right. I could be overly optimistic. What if spez and other top management and developers leaves after getting rich from the IPO and Reddit crashes and burns without them? Maybe spez stays on as CEO after the IPO but continues to ignore the protests because he thinks actually addressing these issues will hurt Reddit's profitability and he doesn't see a way out.
If spez will not deal with these concerns of accessible moderation tools after profitability, how can we expect him to do so before then? Put a different way, there is a chance that spez might actually fix the problems after Reddit becomes profitable. Fixing them before is impossible. There's no chance of that happening.
I never said spez wants more money for more employees. The opposite is going to be true. Reddit will have more layoffs before it gets in the black. Reddit admins will lose their jobs. We are not the only ones suffering. This is exactly why we must stick together to support Reddit and help it become profitable.
I could be overly optimistic. It seems our best chance remains having a benevolent CEO of a profitable Reddit. Without the profitable part, the benevolent part does not matter.
The loyal super moderator actually did take part in the blackout according to that post, despite later denials. Maybe it is justified from Reddits POV? Most users both in and out of Reddit agree it was the right call so I hardly see why that matters.
Maybe 40 bucks a month is not enough. Would you do 500 a month to keep them alive? Even if you would how many others could say the same?
We can not know the answers about how realistic a cheaper price would be from Reddits own POV unless we know their financials. Until then I think they deserve a showing of good faith.
I thought about it for a long time and I can not come up with any justification for spez doing the blackmail and false accusations. That was wrong and spez needs to own up to it like he did for the edits he did back in 2016. I do not think Reddit deserves to die because of these mistakes.
I did not know he was like that with Musk. I hate that guy. He is so ugly. Not at all sexy like blonde spez.