Being used to protect against Ant Man.

Don’t worry. You’ll learn object permanence any time now.

It’s a file stolen from X…

after my equilibrium dies

Metabolism?

Pretty sure that’s what happens nearly everywhere not specifically the UK.

Everyone should have started wearing pants with a ton of text on it.

The slow change and then tipping point is probably less to do with building up inertia and more in line with how a buffered system works.

So many users didn’t know the difference. And probably thought mods were paid to work. And didn’t bother to read any of the stickies or links subreddits posted explaining the whole situation.

I don’t trust reddit reporting that value accurately. Not saying it is a huge percentage, but they likely doing some things to minimize the numerator and maximize the denominator.

But yeah, definitely about control. They could have monetized users on third party apps with more reasonable API pricing. People would probably have barely noticed and that’d be new revenue for reddit that didn’t exist before.

The fact that he was a mod on jailbait is kind of a distraction. It’s funny in concept, but at the time, mods could just add anyone else as a mod instead of sending an invite to be a mod. So anyone could be assigned as a mod for an embarrassing subreddit.

There’s some problematic power tripping mods and those incidents are the most visible, but probably >99% of mod actions are essentially unnoticed and just keeping subreddits relatively organized. And people were doing that for free. If reddit isn’t profitable, then pissing off moderators that were doing work for free does not seem like a good approach.

I doubt he was targeting moderators directly, but that’s what ended up happening in part.

Using the percentage of mods that use 3rd party apps is disingenuous (if that stat is even correct). There’s probably tons of mods on low volume subreddits that don’t need to do much and thus don’t use the mod tools on 3rd party apps. But I bet the percent of mod actions that come through the API vs native is very different than counting it by mod that use the API vs native. As in, a small percentage of mods on big subreddits are probably doing a lot of moderation and they are probably using 3rd party apps at least part of the time.