Reddit is in danger of a death spiral

3 years ago by doophy to c/news

Can Reddit survive as its volunteer workforce close down subreddits and walk away from the site in protest at the management's new policies?

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IgnoreKassandra 10 points 3 years ago

It's not a loss of volunteer manpower, its just a changing of the guard. Sadly there will always be legions of scabs willing to take the place of those protesting.

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parrot-party 2 points 3 years ago

It takes more than warm bodies to maintain a large community. There's tons of people lining up because they imagine being a moderator of a large sub is a power trip. What they'll actually find is that the job sucks. There's not a whole lot of power tripping to be had. It's mostly boring administration, filtering out obvious trash, all for the low low price of free.

I foresee a ton of turn over as scabs abandon post and Reddit admins scramble to keep finding more fresh meat to grind.

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