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The recent comments[1] by the CEO deriding the populace that does a huge amount of work (unpaid, mind you) to keep the website running smoothly make me have significant doubts as to your statement that you respect our decisions to do what's best for our communities.
Furthermore, he proposes changes to make the site more democratic, so us "landed gentry" - (yes, an actual real quote that the head of the company used to describe the moderators on reddit) don't get too comfortable in our rich and luxurious lives of hate mail and abuse while doing the aforementioned work to keep the website functional. Reportedly this will include allowing mobs of trolls and bad actors to vote to remove moderators when they don't like their actions. In a healthcare based subreddit, that would be disastrous, especially with the amount of abusive activity we were subjected to during covid by antivaxxers and conspiracy theorists. We banned swaths of people for posting misinformation and antivax content that goes against science. He's proposing that those same people will be able to attempt to remove us?
Does this newfound democracy extend to the userbase to vote on things like, say, the timeline for extortionate API pricing solely designed to kill third party apps, or is it only going to be things that are convenient for the admin team/CEO and only at their pleasure?
There's nothing here!