“Reddit is publicly extending an olive branch to the moderator community that it largely enraged over recent weeks…But as you might expect, mods remain skeptical.”

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    “So, we’ve all had a… time on Reddit lately,” Go_JasonWaterfalls wrote. “And I’m here to recognize it, acknowledge that our relationship has been tested, and begin the ‘now what?’ conversation.”

    If I was part of the organization responsible for making unilateral changes that only benefitted itself, I’d be embarrassed to start a message this way.

    “Now that I’ve slapped you around a little, let’s talk about what YOU can do to repair our relationship” is what it sounds like to me.

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      It’s saying a whole lot about the so called leadership team at reddit. This language is infuriating.

      They are so full of themselves. They are absolutely not demonstrating leadership capabilities either. This is just some guy trying to push his own agenda instead of listening and understanding. I don’t think they are capable of understanding, or they can’t hide their contempt for the people doing all the work moderating their site for them for free.

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        That’s corporate talk. That’s the kind of talk you’d expect to hear from any higher up executive of any company you can think of, that’s knowingly fucking anyone underneath their feet over. Whether they’re for profit or non-profit, private or public.

        This demeaning, narcissistic, unaccountable and preemptively assuming kind of language that is shitting out from their mouths and through their fingers. And they wonder why we’ll hate them for the rest of their lives.

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      It’s possible this particular admin is not an asshole, but yeah, this whole move is a big pile of hypocritical garbage.

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      Right? That’s who I wanted to post this article here. Everything Reddit is saying is just PR spin. I get that it’s their platform, but damn…they rely on the major contributors there to make them valuable.

      It’s gross that they are putting the blame on those that cared and trying to backhandedly repair what they lost.

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        The way I read it they aren’t even trying to repair anything. Just manipulate their landed gentry into being their corporate slaves again. With nothing of value offered to bring them back.

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      “If you’re done kicking and screaming, we can go get an ice cream. Would you like that, little guy?”

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        They’re not even offering ice cream. Not only does nothing they’re offering address complaints, they’re not even offering any unrelated things to entice/mollify the mods. Having a conversation isn’t a reward.

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          True. Maybe a better representation is:

          Hey, I know I broke your favorite toy and yelled at you. But if you’re done acting up, we can go for a nice walk. That sound good, champ?