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Remember when Spez said it was "It's time we grow up and behave like an adult company"? Apparently, that means paying himself $193 million and single-handedly tanking Reddit's profitability right b... (www.npr.org)
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Remember when Spez said it was "It's time we grow up and behave like an adult company"? Apparently, that means paying himself $193 million and single-handedly tanking Reddit's profitability right b...::undefined

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[–] 83 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Rather than try to explain it, I think it's easier to say this. Imagine something you cherish dearly. Now imagine it slowly eroding away into nothing. Would you not be angry and want to prevent that at all costs?

Seeing something so useful go the way of the dodo just because the people in charge of the company want to be rich is infuriating. This could really be said about far too many companies. But IMO, Reddit's situation is more sad because the users are what made the site. The owners/creators just made the platform.

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  • [–] 28 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Hey! That's what happened to gaming!

    And television and film!

    And music!

    Just art in general.

    It fucking sucks!

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    I understand your sentiment here, but I wholeheartedly disagree. I think we're living at the beginning of a new renaissance of art. For all the negative things that the internet age has brought, the silver lining is that independent musicians, visual artists, animators, filmmakers etc have the best opportunity of all time to make what they really want to make and get paid for it.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    I had an annual subscription for years because I wanted to support them and they weren't being greedy about it.

    Reddit gold was an amazing way to harness the goodwill they'd developed with the community. When it was invented, it wasn't a product to be sold. It was a voluntary way to give back to both the site and your fellow users.

    The only bumper sticker I've ever had was snoo.

    I believed in them and wanted them to succeed. Moneu and power apparently corrupts.

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  • [+] -9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    No I wouldn’t and I didn’t.

    I find that harbouring these kind of negative emotions only effects the person having them. I don’t want to drag my own mood down. I left Reddit, I came it and I like it here. The end.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    Sounds like an outlook that works well for you, but not everyone has that same outlook

    Edit: LMAO someone didnt like this comment enough that they went through my entire comment history and downvoted everything that they could see

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