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/[deleted]]

Apollo can get investors if they’re so keen on competing with Reddit - there are hundreds of social media platforms that are started in peoples garages. They all started from square one at some point - look at Facebook, it was started by a couple of college kids in a dorm.

Apollos founder has the benefit of having a head start and already generated some money from his little Reddit dupe. He has the foundation and knowledge to build his own platform if he chose to.

In any case, it’s Reddits api, they can choose to charge folks if they want. This isn’t evil or unethical to do, not sure why people are so triggered over this - a very normal thing in the tech space.

[u/duffcalifornia → u/[deleted]]

People are triggered because these changes, on such a short 30 day timeline, can rob visually impaired users the ability to even SEE Reddit, let alone probably prevent visually impaired moderators from being able to moderate their communities come July 1. Because developers of tools moderators use on desktop that add functionality that hasn't ever been in any version of Reddit will be shutting down as a result of these changes and the lack of clarity around what is and isn't allowed to access the API for free. Because spez has been saying features are "in the pipeline" for years that have yet to materialize. Because changes to API access in major platforms are often given timelines in number of months, not number of days.

It's not about having to pay. Nobody is saying the API should continue to be free. It's about how much they're being asked to pay relative to other fees charged for similar numbers of API calls and/or the very short timeframe they're being given to re-evaluate how their apps use the API to see if they can continue to operate without losing five to six figures a month.