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[–] [email protected] 59 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Time to fire up the protests again and shut down major subreddits again.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Honestly, why bother?

Management has been wanting to cash out for a decade.

The IPO will go ahead, the reddit of the days of yore is dead. It will not improve.

The horse is dead, beating it will just make you hot, sweaty and your arm sore.

No matter what you feel about the place it was never going to go any other way.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's like thinking one final shopping spree at Toys'R'Us would have stopped the hedge fund flunkies from siphoning every last cent out of the company.

They already made the decision. The data doesn't matter (much like the Work From Home / Return To Office fight) and the decision has been made to squeeze profits until it is bled dry.

They never really cared how the userbase was going to feel about it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

A new protest and shutdown would be to get it into the media eye in a bad light. Not actually do anything of importance to the site.

After all, the 24 hour news cycle lives on scandals.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

After all, the 24 hour news cycle lives on scandals.

And because it is a 24 hour cycle, the scandal will be forgotten and replaced with a new one in the same amount of time.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Well, if it brings you joy, fill your boots.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

...beating it will just make you hot, sweaty and your arm sore.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Are we still doing phrasing?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Going to be a whole new world of monetization to satisfy the share holders.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (3 children)

The horse is dead, beating it will just make you hot, sweaty and your arm sore.

Are we really going to overlook the smell?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

You haven't thought of the smell, you bitch!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Full body murderboner?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

From the horse or the person swinging the stick?

(When people let their anger get the best of them they often, regrettably, start to resemble the focus of their anger.)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

From the horse or the person swinging the stick?

Yes.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

no

uploadings 1gb noise video better

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

They don't care. Reddit does not give a shit about its users.