Steve Huffman, the Reddit CEO, told NBC News in an interview that a user protest on the site this week is led by a minority of moderators and doesn’t have wide support.
Steve Huffman, the Reddit CEO, told NBC News in an interview that a user protest on the site this week is led by a minority of moderators and doesn’t have wide support.
“Congratulations, you’ve just been promoted as the lead moderator of /r/Whatever. We’re going to need you to unlock the subreddit.”
“What? What happened to the other mods?”
“Don’t worry about it. Just unlock the subreddit.”
“Why don’t you just unlock it? You’re the owners, you can do whatever you want.”
“We’re going to need someone to moderate it when it comes back online, and we don’t have the money for that kind of manpower. Please focus, I need you to unlock the subreddit and prepare for the community to come back online.”
“Yeah, I’m not going to do that.”
“That’s unfortunate, but I can’t say I’m surprised.”
You’ve been removed as a Moderator of /r/Whatever