Reddit is removing moderators that protest by taking their communities private
<i>Of course</i> they did. What else did you expect?<p>The thing that I find interesting is that Reddit moderators are apparently not above weaponizing the community but seem to have no idea themselves about how to keep Reddit afloat. Reddit costs a ton of money to run and has never been profitable enough to be default &#x27;alive&#x27;. If something doesn&#x27;t change then Reddit is dead, so from the managements point of view all they&#x27;ve done is increased the problems rather than reduced them.<p>It&#x27;s super easy to criticize the Reddit management for their inability to articulate what is going on behind the scenes but in my view that only means that there is no good news. Reddit is hanging by a thread financially and this revolt has made it worse. So reducing the ability of the moderators to revolt is a first logical step in the direction of stability, which is where they will need to go.<p>Spez should step down, he&#x27;s made way too many unforced errors. But the assumption that another manager will be able to dig(g) Reddit out of this hole is quite possibly not valid.