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Re:Reddit Mods and Scaling Problems in Social Control by Sunspark on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @04:17PM (#34715312)
Sorry, but if you have control over 5, 10, 20+ million subscribers, it's not your own private site. You're either a paid employee or you're a freeloader riding on someone's carriage, in which case they should be paying Reddit for allowing them a platform and bandwidth in which they can shape and control the narrative by controlling what speech is allowed.

It goes beyond just controlling the speech or opinions of people who disagree with you such as I am doing here, there is also money involved such as in controlling which links get published. Those links drive traffic to specific sites which host ads. Surely you do not believe that all the links to specific sites over and over is simply because they are "fast to publish" or something do you?

Re:Reddit Mods and Scaling Problems in Social Control by tptacek on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @04:33PM (#34715534)
No, that's not a thing, we don't nationalize websites because they become popular.