After nearly a week of mass protests on Reddit directed at its management, the company's strategy appears to be simple: power through.
That approach was reflected Thursday in a series of media interviews conducted by Reddit CEO and co-founder Steve Huffman.
Now, the fate of the protests may hinge on public perceptions of which group better represents the views and interests of Reddit's overall userbase, while Reddit increasingly moves to isolate moderators it views as out of line and as it seeks to drive a wedge between average users and moderators.
"The blackouts are not representative of the greater Reddit community," Huffman told The Verge."Users may have been for this on Monday; they're not for it now." "What we are seeing now is a case of the discontent speaking out where the silent majority is happy with the status quo of a blackout," said Omar, who requested anonymity for safety reasons. Omar added that the backlash Reddit has faced was largely self-inflicted, and that the company's critics do not oppose its attempts to monetize the platform so much as the way it has gone about it.
In addition, one company administrator said Thursday, Reddit may soon view communities that remain private as an indicator that the moderators of those communities no longer wish to moderate. That would constitute a form of inactivity for which the moderators can be removed, the company said.
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