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Reddit Ramps Up Its Threats To Protesting Mods, As Ad Buyers Leave(www.techdirt.com)

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The landed gentry are only in charge until the king comes to town and chops off a few heads. At least that seems to be the case at Reddit, where CEO Steve Huffman pretended his complaints about current moderators — who were protesting his decision to effectively cut off API access to tons of useful…

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alaphic@lemmy.world
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So, shall we start calling this ‘the Reddit Effect?’ We haven’t had anything new to supplant the Streisand Effect for awhile, I feel like something like this is overdue

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So the Reddit Effect would be a company trying to do something to raise it’s value or make it look good that has the opposite effect?

I don’t think there’s another name for that, so sure, why not?

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Troy@lemmy.ca
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Might be the digg effect ;)

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