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> you believe Reddit is in the right here
I didn't say anything like that. Reddit is private for profit company, owns platform and content and acts to maximize long term profit.
> they lost PR battle
That's reddit, not any devs or mods.
But no, there was no formal poll that took into account response bias and made use of proper stratification and randomization to ensure a fair survey. Some bigger subs did ask "what do we do" and some subs went with the idea of the most upvoted comment, a common tactic in reddit.
This was r/pics's "poll": https://old.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/14b2a6q/poll_decide_o...
It is not scientific, so you can easily dismiss it. But I think that is the wrong angle to look at something that is ultimately trying to say "yes, a lot of people who decided to vote/comment do want this to happen". You can use the casual browser as points for or against them, because they are simply in for the ride if they don't speak up.
>Reddit is private for profit company, owns platform and content and acts to maximize long term profit.
yes, and I as a (former) user do not care about coporate's goals. I wanted an easy, feature filled UX and have asked for features for almost a decade. Almost none of them came about, so I used extensions and alternative apps that provided them
Reddit's reaction was to
- take away features provided by extensions to fit into a subscription model. No, I do not think it is worth $5/month to be able to see new comments highlighted. I simply found a new extension when RES removed the features
- only add in a few features when literally all hell broke loose (remember why we can filter subreddits on r/all now? What does that teach me? that I need to break the rules and inconvinence users if I want change? Good lesson, actually.)
- ignore 90% of other asked for features. Some of which could have helped right now if they did so (Oh, I wonder why NSFW can't diffentiate between violence, gore, sexual content, and foul language?).
- And now they repeat this tactic by removing more alternatives while refusing to implement user centric features.
No one asked for a video player and it sucks anyway. No one wanted the ignore feature to be removed while the block feature to actively disrupt conversation on the whim of an arbiturary individual. No one at all wanted NFTs for a profile pic (old reddit doesn't even have proile pics).
It's rent-seeking, and I do not respect the tactic. Even if I never used 3p apps I'd be against reddit because historically they have never attempted to act in my interest. I am not respected so why should I care about how they make money?
thank you for constructively providing link, though pics is not in the list of subs in the post
> I as a (former) user do not care about coporate's goals. I wanted an easy
future will tell if you are part of large group of users or outlier.
pics isn't NSFW. just maliciously compliant. I do wonder how/if Reddit will do anything with it, though.
>future will tell if you are part of large group of users or outlier.
I've been an outlier nearly my entire life. I left reddit 3 years ago now. I don't expect my graceful leave to do anything in the grand scheme of things.
I am simply looking out for my own interests and communicating my thought process, sample of 1. Maybe a few others agree. most very likely don't care and would dismiss me with "go touch grass".