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- Reddit should not be a company to grow 1000x & exit with all employees being millionaires, it should earn enough to pay the staff hefty six fig salaries and that's enough

- Stop being like quora and restricting content if you're not logged in

- fix the video player on the new site

- support the native video player on the old site & polls

- remove the supermod system, where senior mods control half the site, old mods should not be able to invite new mods past a certain point but they'll just create sockpuppet accounts so

- remove more subreddits from the default list

- remove the "influencer" aspects of the site. People don't need a profile with a custom picture, don't need to post to their /u/ board when they should be posting on a subreddit.

- go back to reddit gold, get rid of the 50+ awards

- custom comment backgrounds from certain awards are fine, let people purchase colored borders or something

- go back to showing the progress bar for how close the site is to earning enough to pay for servers that day from gold purchases

- when you end up hiring extremely controversial staff, avoid auto deleting criticism about them

- don't edit other user's comments

- integrate more of RES's features into reddit

- bring back live threads

- RPAN is a fine way to try to introduce more social stuff (imagine r/games hosting a pov stream of blizzcon) but the current users are weird

- bring back AMAs with famous people, not B or C list actors that are promoting their new book (so bring back someone in Victoria's role)

- get rid of the moon currency feature

- encourage mods to delete threads with inaccurate titles / clickbait until a link is submitted with an accurate name

Just to pick this one out:

> - remove the "influencer" aspects of the site. People don't need a profile with a custom picture, don't need to post to their /u/ board when they should be posting on a reddit reddit.

I think this was added for the OnlyFans pipeline. There is a massive porn community on Reddit, and the entirety of it thrives on this feature. Whether either of us want that, Reddit's decided it is a good and reliable monetary way forward.

Didn’t Reddit ban a lot of the porn content during the same “progressive” ban wave they banned gender critical, the Donald, etc?

It's rare that Reddit bans nsfw content, the only major porn ban I'm aware of is r/jailbait and that one was banned for very good reasons. r/TheFappening and r/creepshots weren't porn but sexual exploitation.

In any case, these three bans were many years ago.

Reddit has more recently banned NSFW subreddits that were considered excessively violent (/r/struggleporn) or pedophilic (/r/ageplaypenpals, which was just text based).

These are niche at best, definitely not "a lot of the porn content".

It wasn't an outright ban, but they removed nsfw subs from /r/all this year.

> Reddit should not be a company to grow 1000x & exit with all employees being millionaires

I think the VCs that invested in Reddit did it for the very specific purpose that you just decided wasn't important anymore.

and it kills the site when you have to grow the valuation by significantly increasing revenue in unhealthy ways

> Reddit should not be a company to grow 1000x & exit with all employees being millionaires, it should earn enough to pay the staff hefty six fig salaries and that's enough

Investors(which includes VCs/angels,etc. AND employees) should be rewarded, whether that's the risk they take (ex. VCs) or the work they put in (employees). I'm confused where this viewpoint came from, given every business works this way -- a company gets investments (either through money or employee time) and if that business grows, so do the investments...

They don't mean that it should never happen, they mean that given the growth prospects of Reddit they should just become a regular business instead of continuing to try to get a VC return.

VC investors indeed try to get VC returns but sometimes their bets fail and that's part of their portfolio theory.

The early investors have definitely done well already.

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