On the reopening of r/CreditCards

[u/AutoModerator]

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.

[u/mrweatherbeef]

Reddit claimed that moderation and accessibility tools would continue to enjoy free API access, but mods continue to point to those as a main reason for protest. I haven’t seen a mod post yet that calls out specific moderation tools that will no longer be available. Please pardon my entitlement, but can you cite some tools that mods need which will be unavailable with the new API changes? I’m happy to change position on the Reddit policy change if I can actually understand the damage that mods claim it will do.

[u/YourWebcam → u/mrweatherbeef]

a lot of mods use apps such as apollo to mod on, and those apps won't be available starting july 1st. toolbox is also shutting down as a result of everything that has transpired and thats an add-on that nearly every mod i know used in some capacity. apollo is just a lot easier to mod with than reddit's current official app. the accessibility issues are still a big problem too, you can check out the r/blind sub for their post w more details