688 upvotes, 7 direct replies (showing 7)
View submission: /r/IAmA set to private over mod firing
I've been on your site for years, and I just only realized now that your business model is to reduce costs by handing out the perception of power in return for free labor - drastically decreasing overhead in the process, while holding you unaccountable (until you're dumb enough to speak, like a smug twat).
You took a democratic platform and monetized it, and now make a mockery of it because you can't see anyone from your green tower. You took something that was kind of neat - an expression of what the internet was supposed to be - and you've tainted it. For a group of people that have so much influence over the discourse of the developed world, that's a real shame that you've let things devolve to this, rather than building something better and going to the next iteration, whatever that would have been.
e: hey asshole - my account wont be active anymore. its a dumb content management system that you set up, and easily replicable. you let it get to your head.
get fucked - i actually go out to the bush to spread the internet, you're just a cunt that got lucky thinking your meow cats matter or whatever the fuck. the culmination of your life is actually nothing.
Comment by anxietysufferingfool at 03/07/2015 at 04:42 UTC
225 upvotes, 4 direct replies
dam I never noticed until you said it....
unpaid labor in return for perceived power/influence on the site.. now I kind of hate myself for supporting such a scheme.
Comment by [deleted] at 04/07/2015 at 05:02 UTC*
3 upvotes, 2 direct replies
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Comment by tequila13 at 03/07/2015 at 17:36 UTC
2 upvotes, 2 direct replies
Users of the site have more perspective than the guy who built it. Wow. I wonder what made him become like this? Was it really the money? He lost his drive? He got drunk on success?
Comment by [deleted] at 04/07/2015 at 05:47 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
For a group of people that have so much influence over the discourse of the developed world
Rofl
Comment by [deleted] at 21/08/2015 at 15:20 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
my account wont be active anymore.
Did you change your mind?
Comment by samuelelliottson at 03/07/2015 at 17:54 UTC
1 upvotes, 2 direct replies
lol... how would you keep the site up financially?
Comment by [deleted] at 03/07/2015 at 16:28 UTC
-1 upvotes, 2 direct replies
green tower
Shouldn't it be "Emerald Tower" in the same sense that academics can lose touch with the public in their "Ivory Towers"?