Imagine Wal-Mart says you can do it for free, then says you can do it for free for the medium-term and they’ll work out agreeable pricing with you over time, then suddenly says “$20 million per year or hit the road,” and starts trying to tar your reputation because their own products suck compared to yours and they know it.
Make sure to edit each comment with “Reddit is evil. Do not use.” So everyone in the future will see it and take heed.
Reddit's death will be slow, as most website deaths are. It happens as content becomes rarer and lower quality until the point that barely anybody wants to use it. Plus, they've been slowly pissing off users for probably a half decade at this point. Eventually it'll become too much. I'm interested to see how the depreciation of old.reddit.com will go. That one is gonna be fun to see in the headlines.
Markups of 100% or more are very common in retail. One can definitely argue whether Apple should charge less or not, but lets not pretend that 30% is outrageously high compared to what other businesses charge either.
Might change it to 'Commented and account deleted by user because Reddit CEO Steve Huffman wanted to rip off consumers and put reddit's partners out of business. Do not use Reddit.'
I have to agree. I don't think I've ever seen a first post so downvoted in all my years here. I support their right to an opinion tho, agreed - credit where it is due.
Apple's worth trillions of dollars only because they've ripped off others and hoarded al the profits.
It's interesting if you look at the history of the internet and see the services that came out very quickly that have survived in one form or another. HTTP, FTP, Usenet, Mail, IRC, etc. Most of these services have changed forms and are controlled by a few companies. Only a few have changed hands over time. Reddit dominates the Usenet concept. I'm not sure I see much replacing it on the horizon.
1 million seconds is 11 days, 1 billion seconds is 31 years. I wonder how long a trillion is.
I get your analogy but it’s a bit more nuanced here. Apollo is a huge reason people even use Reddit. Also, Walmart is paying for land, for people to sell and keep it all in order. Reddit expects to turn a crazy profit while expecting their users to do all that. Reddit is even moderated by its users.
This isn’t even in the ballpark of what’s happening. Why would you post so cockily and confidently when you clearly have no idea of what the situation is?
Apple's not to blame for income inequality. They're just playing the system by the book. It's the policies that created the system that are to blame.
Well we found Spez's account on MacRumors. Clearly doesn't know wtf he's talking about just like how he thought Christian (Apollo Dev) was threatening him lmfao.
The reality is Apollo isn't large enough for Reddit to worry about losing. Generally speaking, Apollo only has up to 1.5m users and only about 50k of them are paying subscriptions. The number of active users is probably even less. Compared to the 1.6 BILLION users on Reddit... I'm not sure they really care. Well, I guess it's obvious they don't.
Macrumors has proven to me that we need to bring back specific moderated forums. Even though I frequently disagree with users on here, I find everyone to be much more respectful and generally positive than any social media site.
Agreed. Macrumors is BY FAR my favorite online place… and they even banned me for a full year once.
And to add -
Imagine Wal-Mart didn't even sell anything; it was just the building and other people added the items, reviewed the items and maintained the shelves for free because that's what Reddit is. It's built on the back of free links, free comments and free moderation.
