It's not mutiny, it's survival of the fittest. Alexis and Steve are diehard libertarians. The site is built around the premise that social darwinism will provide the most efficient solution to any problem. Thus, subreddits and the near-total lack of Admin involvement in them… except when the money bitches (Sears), crime is imminent (violentacrez modding the CIRCLEJERKERS in /r/jailbait) or bad press is threatened (/r/creepshots). Hell - as soon as Adrien Chen putted Violentacrez, Yishan Wong announced the admins were pulling out of /r/modtalk - essentially saying "you're on your own, suckaz." So what you're left with isn't The HMS Bounty, it's Bartertown. It would take fifteen to twenty minutes for any average social psychologist to look at the makeup of Reddit and recoil in horror. The sad thing is I've been arguing with them for five years now about ways to scale back the brutality and every suggestion I've ever made has gotten a nod, a grin and a cold shoulder. Yet they keep asking.
It took me longer than it probably should have to realize this. It should have been as bright as day when the answer to any grievance or criticism of subreddits was, "You can always start your own."Alexis and Steve are diehard libertarians. The site is built around the premise that social darwinism will provide the most efficient solution to any problem.