There's a lot of people in this thread defending Reddit and they don't seem to have ever had the pleasure of dealing with an actual Reddit employee. They have a culture of unchecked cronyism. Reddit doesn't care about anyone, some people will eventually figure it out the hard way.
> they don't seem to have ever had the pleasure of dealing with an actual Reddit employee.
99.999% of redditors will never ever have to deal with a Reddit employee. Cronyism? What the hell has that got to do with my consumption of and participation on Reddit?
Most users don't interact with Reddit employees, but the moderators that maintain most of the communities you enjoy do. That's how I ended up interacting with them. Shortly after the IPO rumors, my community started being harassed by an admin through modmail.
That's an odd way to put it. The admins are basically god. God doesn't harass you, he tells you how to live. If an admin tells you to jump, you beg to know how high.
I've been a mod for a decade and never had a problem with admins.
I was new to it though, and an admin picked on me because I was parodying another subreddit (my home city subreddit). You've been modding for a decade, great. That basically backs up my original point that it's a party of tenure and closed-mindedness (cronyism). My situation was different, and it's pointless to argue, but if you trust any company (especially in a changing economic environment), keep your eyes open for poorly motivated incentives.
Regardless, the attitude that they're "god" is a weird way to put it. They randomly IP banned me for calling out an admin's publicity issue during an April fools event. That's cronyism. I've used Reddit for 12 years and engaged in conversations in good faith for years. Paid for subscriptions most of that time. All relationships, business or otherwise should be mutual in some form.
