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Comment by mreiland | Hacker News Reader

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> The 'vocal minority' are the content creators and contributors.

That term, content creator. That's a bit disingenuous in this case. It's rare for anyone to create content specifically for reddit, the vast majority of this content you're talking about is re-posted to reddit from other sources.

> Reddit, as it becomes more mainstream

Reddit is one of the largest sites on the internet, how much more mainstream does it need to get before you stop characterizing it as "becoming mainstream"?

The truth is, the company made a decision and the moderators got ansty and threw the users under the bus in an attempt to make a power play.

The most virulent detractors were a vocal minority, they were the mods of a few large subreddits.

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I call BS. One of the things that convinced me this (that is, how reddit treats and responds to its mods) was a real problem, and not just some "angsty mods", was the reaction from /r/AskScience. AskScience is one of the best subreddits, largely because its moderation is so good. The fact that the AskScience mods stood up in agreement with what was going on, and pointed out how non-responsive admins had been, made me believe this is much more than a "power play".

> The fact that the AskScience mods stood up in agreement with what was going on, and pointed out how non-responsive admins had been

r/AskScience also has a lot of AMAs, and so was directly affected by Victoria's firing in a way that most other subs were not.

While Victoria's firing may have been the impetus, it sound like general unresponsiveness from the admins, as well as a lack of investment in moderator tools, was the bigger complaint: https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/3by2nk/a_messag... .

It sounds like any well-moderated, decently large subreddit would have reason to be pissed.

That r/askscience stood up shows there is mistreatment happening and it's probably widespread.

That r/shitredditsays is celebrating shows that mistreatment has not been happening to them.

You might want to take a look at some of the top AMAs reddit has seen - https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/search?q=ama&sort=top&restrict...

Worf, Buzz Aldrin, Obama, Bill Gates, Elon Musk ..

The people who "revolting" this time were the people who brought us these. I don't think it's fair to write them off as re-posters; they've put huge, huge amounts of time and effort into curating some of the most engaging original content reddit has ever seen.

Reddit is 99.999% user generated content.

It's a high-traffic site, sure, but I wouldn't call it mainstream. I would consider much lower trafficked sites like Expedia, Zappos and Huffington Post more "mainstream".

I... what?

I think the charitable interpretation is that the listed websites get more yearly unique visitors from influential segments of society, regardless of the fact that their raw traffic numbers are much lower, and hence are more in the "mainstream" mind in terms of websites visited.

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