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Who was nasty first? Are you trying to say the community brought this API change upon itself?



I'm not saying that at all - this API change has to do with business, nothing to do with personal feelings. But I just think it's interesting people criticise the leadership of reddit but look at what the users of reddit have been up to over the years - /r/jailbait, the harassment of Ellen Pao, the fappening, FatPeopleHate, the Boston bombing vigilantes, Pizzagate. Like yeah, sure, Reddit has been a total fuck up of a business proposition, but that really is partly because the site has harbored some really disgusting stuff over the years and it's only extremely recently that the company has even started to try to steer away from that stuff - and when they do large portions of the company react extremely badly.


> but look at what the users of reddit have been up to over the years - /r/jailbait, t

You mean the /r/jailbait subreddit current Reddit CEO Steve Huffman was a moderator of?




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