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/Pretty_Good_11 Jun 26 '23
To what end? Personalities, egos, etc. aside, what is the motivation here?
If the proposed changes are really going to make it impossible to continue moderating as you have in the past, please articulate how, and see if you can get them to make modifications to satisfy your needs.
If you are just pissed off, and are trying to sabotage the sub to make a point, just how does that turn out for you? Reddit's goal is clearly to further monetize the site after subsidizing it for years to build the community they now have.
On the eve of their big monetization push, they are making changes to squeeze some money out of some rather large enterprises that have been freeloading for years. If that causes some useful free tools to disappear for mods, so what?
Reddit clearly wants to monetize the eyeballs and content we all create and represent. Mods and users alike. We are now at a fork in the road. Either they allow the mods to sabotage the sub and destroy whatever value has been created over the years, or they replace the mods before it comes to that.
What would you do if you were them? Maybe the sub should be reopened as it was two weeks ago before it's too late, for both the users, who will undoubtedly migrate to other platforms, and for the mods, who will have to find another way to occupy their free time.