The Reddit Admins are essentially playing out the abusive dynamic in real time. In fact you can just run down the DENNIS system to see the standard Silicon Valley exploition cycle at work.
Demonstrate Value - Reddit became a place where people wanted to spend time online by offering up moderator positions to anyone who wanted to run a subreddit.
Engage Physically - Reddit became a porn hub
Nurture Dependence - Other social media sites became more and more corporate and ad-infested.
Neglect Emotionally - Perpetual announcements in which it's clear that the users are a regrettable component of Reddit's business model.
Inspire Hope - Make a promise to provide better moderator cowtools. Maybe this time Reddit has changed.
Separate Entirely - That's on the Reddit userbase, isn't it?
Point is I call R*PE
R*PE
they're RAPING their USERS
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your impassionata impression better be satire
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it's certainly not meant to be read literally
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