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For Reddit, 2 things drive profit: (A) ad revenue, and (B) reward revenue. User satisfaction itself is a nonfactor (clarification below).
just like airlines, they'll squeeze as hard as they can until people start leaving; the admins only change things for the users when there's an outcry.
See also: the outcry about the Redesign and the resulting permanent opt-out option. Without that, a significant number of Redditors, including me, would stop using Reddit, and *that* matters... but satisfaction itself? Nah. They'll do just enough to keep you here, nothing more.
You're just a means to an end, not a priority.
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For **ad revenue**, they're proudly and actively censoring mainstream-offensive content. This means that rape subs below the radar are fine, but conservative subs that people don't like get banned.
It's also why /r/sino exists; despite being a racist, hateful, and fact-denying sub, Reddit tolerates it because Tencent is a major investor in Reddit; defying the CCP means Chinese companies pull out.
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For **reward revenue,** they're doing this. This will encourage abuse, but abuse itself doesn't matter unless people leave.
Like Google, Reddit doesn't care about being evil; they only care about being *intolerably* evil, about pushing people actually *off* their platform.
I hate this new change, but it's not enough to make me leave or participate less, so my dissatisfaction isn't a loss and the revenue gain makes this move a "net gain" for their profit margins, which again, is all that matters.
Comment by loqi0238 at 07/07/2020 at 03:06 UTC
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That's an excellent explanation, thank you very much.
Comment by [deleted] at 07/07/2020 at 02:55 UTC
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I hate this new change, but it's not enough to make me leave or participate less, so my dissatisfaction isn't a loss and the revenue gain makes this move a "net gain" for their profit margins, which again, is all that matters.
You could try moving to ruqqus