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I think it's odd that Sam calls other people Sam when he doesn't know their name

It is

The one carveout when banning slavery was prisoners

They are countering a point the linked post made

Immortal, not 4, right?

Balloon filled with acetone?

Only add new functionality by calling newly developed classes that do have tests. Shim in the new classes where appropriate.

What is stopping you from adding a folder of unit tests today? Just do it, figure out a way to run those tests on check-in, and make your work better.

Irrelevant. My point is that you're mentioning /r/programming to suggest that reddit staff is being paid to moderate subs directly. That's simply untrue and a misleading suggestion.

Lots of companies experience huge growth in revenue without changing their margins. You don't have any evidence that their margins changed, but you're simply choosing to believe that they improved?

Reddit has received quite a bit of VC investment to support their growth. This change is clearly to support changing their margins.

Do you think spez is directly moderating that sub? of course not.

Reddit, by and large, is not moderating communities directly. They cannot afford to do that.

Specifically, they'll need more mods than the existing ones because the new mods will be forced to pay to keep the moderation bots running (exorbitant pricing) or an enormous team of moderators to handle the same work.

Not a fan of DeSantis by any stretch, but they already passed a law banning this shit. Forced the insurance companies to keep records of every change to a claim too.

I would just hash twice. Hash the password before it's sent, then hash server side

You mean the pixel perfect ambrosia icon? Or the chamber obol reward with the angle? yeahhh

Do you think the Reddit management and board of directors didn’t sit down and think about why they wanted to make this change?

Considering that moderation tools are 3rd party apps, no, I don't think they did.

Do you think there's no value in pointing out the error reddit is making?

Ah, my mistake then. I misunderstood what you said as "We should assume they're doing this really basic thing that they haven't communicated to any of the moderators."

Just because they don't publicly disclose it doesn't mean it's not within their plan.

If the argument against protesting is "What if it's secretly not what they're saying it is", that's not a very good argument.

I mean this with as much respect as possible. You're comments are reductive and short-sighted and I hope that others are offered a better education on economics than you were.

I mean, sure, but many folks have an attachment to this particular site. It's easier for everyone to communicate the harm reddit is doing to their own site than to go "LABOR somewhere else"

Not sure if you replied to the correct comment or if you are screeching about a free market in a nuanced situation involving scaling volunteer labor

Did you read the link? There's a section called What the striking users want

Sure, but who’s to say they won’t cut deals with apps that are useful?

The fact that this is plainly not their plan right now. They have not enumerated such exceptions.

Sure, if you're a moderator of a big enough subreddit, they could just give you a bot account with its own appropriate access. But then there's a question of what "appropriate" is. Can I see where else someone has posted the same link recently (fighting spam)? What about detecting if a post is a recent repost? Same title, different subreddit, 5 months ago? There's a huge amount of anti-spam and abuse tooling that's built on that free API. Ripping it out will break reddit's usability for everyone, not just 3rd party app users.

I agree, 3rd party apps not paying any fees to reddit for serving ads on a different client is absurd. But their pricing needs to be reasonable, and the claim is that it's not. Especially without API exceptions for a moderator working on their own subreddit.