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Reddit is shooting itself in the foot by effectively banning the tools that moderators use to do their free labor. I'm surprised Reddit didn't take a slower and more gradual approach instead of a drastic change like this. I guess Steve Huffman has IPO fever.

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And it's not like they don't understand the importance of mods' free labor to keep subreddits clean of filth and users visiting/contributing. I know somebody who worked there years ago, and it was understood that they had to preserve the good will and trust from mods of subreddits to keep Reddit in a functional and orderly state.

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