Reddit didn’t immediately reply to a request for comment. According to Reddit spokesperson Tim Rathschmidt, “We’ll no longer comment on hearsay, unsubstantiated claims, or baseless accusations from The Verge. We’ll be in touch as corrections are needed.” In the absence of corrections, then, you can assume Reddit believes none are necessary.

"Attacking our users didn't work, so let's attack the journalists reporting on us attacking our users!"

I don't think Reddit could have handled this worse than they are. Those who are against Reddit may be a vocal minority, but in terms of moderation and content creation Im hoping we are the majority and Reddit slowly dwindles as spam and bots take over and content dries up.

What sane person would possibly invest in a company like this?

Ignoring how inept they’ve been throughout this whole ordeal, they don’t even have control over their own site! It’s pathetic

Never have i seen a social media site die so fast due to one idiot and a side helping of corporate greed

Let it die, Let it die, let it shrivel up and die!

Spez is a complete bitch (this was already known) but what a clown Reddit's spokesperson is. It's a shitshow, top to bottom

moved to bad ai memes. we arent your normal sub, the mods are the only content contributors, forcing us to open and keep going is even bigger BS.

A large part of the value of Reddit is in the user base's hands. This idea that social media sites monetize user-created content without giving back to the user base has been around for a while but with Reddit it's more obvious because it is a topic-specific discussion site.

The changes include no longer requiring users to do basic research and lowering the standard for what the subreddit counts as spam.

I bet this is to fight against mass edit tools. I actually used one to edit all the comments I ever wrote. Got flagged seconds after by the subreddit of Fear The Walking Dead, permabanning me for spam.

Personally I don't care. At least now they don't have my data anymore.

Attacking our mods 🎵 attacking our users 🎵 attacking the journalists who report the matter 🎵

History tells us that dictators attack journalists, so Reddit after all?