If a moderator team unanimously decides to stop moderating, we will invite new, active moderators to keep these spaces open and accessible to users
That's insane he really thinks the content and subreddit who were create by the community for the community and is being moderated by the community is his. Not only that, he basically say that mods are sucker's and he will find new one to do his job for free.
I really hope reddit will die now so it will always be his legacy. What an idiot
Not only that, but mods are not a "one size fits all" group. A mod for r/gaming is not going to automatically fit in on an arts and craft sub. Though I guess it make sense; CEOs behave the exact same way, jumping between industries without regard for what product or service they are actually selling.
Not just preparing, it's happening. I'm sure everyone's heard about r/pics and r/gifs opening but only posting John Oliver, but here are some links to other mod posts for some subreddits that have been forced to reopen (some of them make for fairly depressing reading):
r/piracy’s top mods have been demoted to force them to reopen
So, reddit promotes piracy an child porn (u/spez mod of r/jailbait)
Next step mods should make their subreddits NSFW, so they don't show on r/all and r/popular
/r/iPhone is posting pics of Tim Cook
Huffman argued this week that Reddit is a business, telling NPR “it’s time we grow up and behave like an adult company.”
First sign to be a grown up company is to tackle major changes with an appropiate timeline and get feedback from the community that helped you get where you are now. Also, if you really want to kill 3rd party apps, be transparent and say it instead of setting ridicule high prices and pretending those are market numbers.
Huffman has also said that the protests have had little impact on the company financially.
Yet there he is, forcing subreddits to reopen and giving interviews to major tech outlets daily.
What a clown.