These were results of the Ellen Pao monetization plan.

She came in and went on a recruiting spree to bring in her people. There's some classic chan posts of engineers for reddit at the time commenting at the incompetence on display, laying out how they destroyed core value of the platform. Spez came in. Ellen went out. Ellen's people stayed and shit up the place with a sprinkling of glitter and spritz of pinterest. Sanitized to the lowest common denominator of most authoritarian communist country. And you've got a deformed gimp reddit 2.0 product nobody but marketing teams, bots, and disinfo agents could tolerate.

The great mods are gone. The community builders. The professionals hobbying for free together in that space. When Google results returned pages of results sorted by highest marketing budget, you could research almost any product or problem on reddit and get authentic comment in far faster time. The value was honest sentiment analysis of the general public. This was a supercharged pool for rapid exchange of ideas, improving the human. They polluted and destroyed that reservoir of information and imagination. That was their killer feature and value.

Like Digg before it they pulled out the rusty knife and cut off the part of themselves they'll miss most.

These were results of the Ellen Pao monetization plan. She came in and went on a recruiting spree to bring in her people. There's some classic chan posts of engineers for reddit at the time commenting at the incompetence on display, laying out how they destroyed core value of the platform. Spez came in. Ellen went out. Ellen's people stayed and shit up the place with a sprinkling of glitter and spritz of pinterest. Sanitized to the lowest common denominator of most authoritarian communist country. And you've got a deformed gimp reddit 2.0 product nobody but marketing teams, bots, and disinfo agents could love.