I wonder how many moderators may adjust their protest time frame as a result of this comment…

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    Wasn’t this goober just saying reddit wasn’t profitable? What revenue lol?

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      Profits are revenue minus expenses. If all the revenue goes into garbage like nfts and new reddit (or up spez’s nose) there can be a lot of revenue but no profit.

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    Makes me wonder what reddit’s usage stats will be in late July or early August once things settle into whatever normal they’re going to be. I can’t imagine they can pull good mod tools out of their asses quickly enough to combat the spam that’ll undoubtedly crop up without automod, etc.

    I think the question is whether this move will ultimately annoy the regular casual lurkers enough. Will it make an impact on reddit’s stats and reputation or not?

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      A flood of spam posts hawking cryptocurrency and hot singles in your area might even look on the usage metrics for a while

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      They’ll probably just plug Automod into OpenAI’s content moderation API or something if too much spam piles up

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        Oh dear gods, that is the most horrible idea I have heard in my life and yet I somehow fully expect that kind of bullshit.

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          AI content moderation will be chump change if they get enough takers on this new API pricing. Plus they’re wanting to IPO at a time when every Fortune 500 is jumping on the AI bandwagon in quarterly reports, so I’d be surprised if they don’t already have teams researching this internally.

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    I mean he’s not really wrong some subs are already opening back up, without indefinite closure nothings going to really change

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      I agree. I think that the whole movement should move to indefinite closure. If anything, it gives us a reason to pop some popcorn!

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      in other news, my ex has totally moved on based on all social media posts about her moving on.

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    I mean, he’s right. They have their work cut out for them though. They’ll need to be on top of things especially regarding moderation, otherwise they will probably continue to bleed users.

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      They never really had real moderation to begin with, just random volunteers that they gave way too much power to, which is going to be a big problem when they go public. They’ll be under a lot more public and government scrutiny.

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        This is a good point. Well, they either have a plan or we’re going to witness a top 20 website fail in real time.