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		commandlinefan on June 12, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage > a failed attempt to re-open all closed subreddits and instate their own moderators My first thought this morning was "if I was reddit, I would re-open all closed subreddits and instate my own moderators"... I'm kind of surprised they didn't. I'd have to imagine that if they wanted to, the attempt wouldn't fail - this seems like it could be done almost trivially.

Sebb767 on June 12, 2023 | [–]

They'd just replace their unpaid workers by paid ones and annoy the userbase even more in the process. Doesn't sound like a great plan.

humansubjects on June 13, 2023 | [–]

I think you are underestimating the amount of unpaid labor that keeps reddit functioning

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