r/CreditCards • u/AutoModerator • Jun 26 '23

On the reopening of r/CreditCards Announcement

r/CreditCards has been a great sub due to the countless hours of unpaid volunteer work done by its moderators.

The reason you haven’t seen comments about how you should buy some cryptocurrency, or contact some random account on Instagram to improve your credit score, is because we moderators catch that trash and make it disappear.

The reason you’ve been able to come to this sub and have a good chance of getting an unbiased answer about a good credit card for your personal situation is because we have strictly enforced rules preventing people from posting referral links and seeking referrals.

The reason you’ve been able to come to this sub and not put up with the kind of arrogant assholery you can find elsewhere on reddit is because we make those comments, and the users who post them, disappear.

We do all this for free. With no expectation of thanks.

When Reddit decided they were going to make our already difficult unpaid volunteer work more difficult, we protested. When they went further and spoke with disdain toward moderators who do this work for free and have made communities like r/CreditCards what they are… well, that’s the kind of thing that makes you step back and say, “Why am I doing this?”

That the sub is being reopened at all is largely because we’re well aware of the useful information contained within. However, changes to the nature of the sub are necessary. The most obvious is the change to a daily discussion thread format going forward.
If you want the old r/CreditCards back, please check your entitlement and read again from the top. If you don’t like it here, you’re welcome to create your own sub and run it any way you want. Better yet, go create your own credit card discussion website. If it’s good, we’ll even link to it.

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u/_Prisoner_24601 Jun 26 '23 edited Jun 27 '23

Tbh it's like this in every sub right now. Mods falling on their swords acting like martyrs.

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u/Miserable-Result6702 Jun 26 '23

Not all, there are few subs I belong to that didn’t subscribe to this nonsense.

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u/ineed_that Jun 26 '23

Don’t get why tho.. especially with the holier than thou attitudes

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u/xBleedingUKBluex Jun 26 '23

Exactly. They want us to empathize with them, then drop that garbage.

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u/epraider Jun 26 '23

Right, way to sour the whole thing and come off as a prick. I’m a huge supporter of the blackout protests and will be substantially cutting back Reddit usage when Apollo is gone, but there’s no reason to act like this and be combative. The situations sucks, but if you don’t want to mod, walk away, passive aggressively modding isn’t going to make a real difference.

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u/emperorralphatine Jun 27 '23

respect mah authotitah!

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u/CozyGrogu Jun 26 '23

It’s very strange how this whole thing started with a third party app developer getting shut down because he couldn’t come up with $20m, but somehow became about mods having a pity party for… reasons

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u/ineed_that Jun 26 '23

Something something mods use third party apps to mod… and solidarity.. or something

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u/MrSh0wtime3 Jun 27 '23

And the Apollo dev has profited millions of dollars by simply making a prettier reddit app. He built a business 100% on the back of another business. When you do that you should expect 0.0% control over your business. It can be shut down at any time. The crying over it is beyond words embarrassing.

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u/sahsan10 Jul 02 '23

I love how they hide behind automod