Steve Huffman, the Reddit CEO, told NBC News in an interview that a user protest on the site this week is led by a minority of moderators and doesn’t have wide support.

Huffman said in an interview that he plans to institute rules changes that would allow Reddit users to vote out moderators who have overseen the protest…

And:

If you’re a politician or a business owner, you are accountable to your constituents. So a politician needs to be elected, and a business owner can be fired by its shareholders…

Maybe u/spez should get voted off the island.

  • Cool Beance@lemmy.world
    5·
    1 year ago

    What a scumbag. He’s playing the “democracy” tune like “redit is for everyone guise” but before he started losing users/moderators he didn’t give a shit how the subreddits were run.

    • moeggz@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 year ago

      If he takes this all the way, as business must also be held accountable to him, and lets us vote on ceo then we might actually see some change. Because he would be voted out immediately.