Idk why. We should be able to have a civilized, intellectually curious discussion about this. The future of Reddit (and its implications for the future of the Internet) is pretty on-topic to me for HN.
@dang can we get a stance on this?
Which isn't me asking for an explanation/stance. However trustworthy you find the moderation to be here, any explanation they give is inherently biased towards an obvious desire to remain employed.
From my perspective - this is a forum/social media site that is popular and _not_ infested with ads. It seems obvious to me that what they do gain is influence with a certain group of people (investors) and as a filter/brain-drain/funnel for entrepreneurs.
Reddit might be a big deal to you but many people over here just don’t care and they don’t want to see topic after topic about a site they don’t care about. And it’s going to have the same impact on the ‘future of the internet’ as the demise of Digg. Not a whole lot really, sites come and go, in a year nobody cares. Remember MySpace?
"Google is getting a lot worse because of the Reddit blackouts" [1]
Digg never had this influence, nor a decade plus of useful threads with information not found anywhere else.