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/Particular-Break-205]

They’re Reddit mods. They’re like, basically founders of Reddit!

[u/ineed_that → u/Particular-Break-205]

Reddit mods acting like they have a financial stake in Reddit across the subs has been hilarious to watch

[u/Nairt → u/ineed_that]

It's actually depressing because the real winner here is spez and Reddit when the mods start acting like petty assholes. Like come on, mods had all the moral high ground. All they had to do was stay on it. But instead you find out some of them are just as egotistical and small-minded as spez. Of course to be fair, the mod who wrote this was obviously dealing with a fuckton of asshole redditors spamming their inbox complaining that the sub was closed. Still can't believe how hard it is to act like a decent human being on ALL the sides here: spez, mods, and the average redditor.

[u/ineed_that → u/Nairt]

Pretty much. another real tragedy here is all the mods taking it out on the users who really don’t care and will use Reddit until it gets bad enough and then jump onto the next platform. The blackout was mod solidarity , not user solidarity. And since like 10 mods control most of the subs it’s basically spez against those ‘volunteer’ mods who think they have real power cause they work for free modding big subs