This was probably the most cynical move Reddit could have made. A big part of what made r/place special was that it was so rare. I have such good memories of the first one.
It’s also just incredibly boneheaded. The API changes happened three weeks ago. People have not forgotten, they are still removing/threatening mods even today, hell there are almost 2000 subs still protesting. And now they give people a microphone during an incredibly public event that they coordinated with twitch?
I guarantee spez said to do it so they could visually see how much vitriol there was as an active percentage of highly engaged users both still on the site and hating spez as a collective total.
This was probably the most cynical move Reddit could have made. A big part of what made r/place special was that it was so rare. I have such good memories of the first one.
It’s also just incredibly boneheaded. The API changes happened three weeks ago. People have not forgotten, they are still removing/threatening mods even today, hell there are almost 2000 subs still protesting. And now they give people a microphone during an incredibly public event that they coordinated with twitch?
Steve is not the only idiot at Reddit right now.
not only that, but /place requires increased moderation for participating subs…
I guarantee spez said to do it so they could visually see how much vitriol there was as an active percentage of highly engaged users both still on the site and hating spez as a collective total.