Reddit's IAMA is back as mods state they will no longer work with site admins

1. Better built-in mod tools. Right now, you have to use one or two extensions to effective moderate a subreddit (Reddit Enhancement Suite and "Toolbox").

2. More transparency/communication. The main reason this all started was because the Admins didn't tell the /r/IAmA moderators about an important admin's firing. If they talked to the moderators more, then this whole issue could have been avoided/

3. Listening to user requests. People have been complaining about changes to the search page that Reddit has been testing via /r/Beta, but Reddit implemented it anyway. This post would explain it better than I could: https://www.reddit.com/r/self/comments/3bvkf0/stop_throwing_...

Evidently it wasn't Ellen Pao who precipitated this shitstorm. Alexis Ohanian, a founder of Reddit, who should know better, made this change to their staff unannounced, unexplained, and then proceeded to make flip comments. After mods "blacked out" vast tracts of Reddit, he has made terse partial apologies.

However, there are other indications Ellen Pao doesn't know how to handle Reddit employees: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/3c0idl/i_am_dacvak_fo...

Firing a legitimately ill employee who is about to return to work, and who, to all appearances is eager to work hard as he did before, is a rookie move. On top of that she is alleged to have told this employee he is being dismissed because he is ill. Mishandling a dismissal when you yourself just got out of one of the highest profile employment disputes ever... I'm boggled.

It's clear that they need to get in front of this now and not be reacting to every fire that breaks out. Alexis and Ellen need to sticky a post to the front page that lays out an apology and a come-to-Jesus for the future of the site.

The gist of this post should be the following:

- Sorry we fucked up by not working through important changes with our valued community of mods and readers.

- We decided to let go of Victoria because we believe that in order to survive and thrive as a for-profit company, we need to take AMAs in a direction that she was against. This includes sponsored AMAs and new formats like video AMAs that take advantage of how people prefer to consume content on mobile devices.

- The rules and banning of certain sub-reddits is in response to irresponsible doxxing behavior and not because we wanted to quelch free speech.

- As reddit grows, in order to pay for the costs to run this business and accomplish the goals our founders and owners agreed upon as part of our last round of funding, we will need to make some hard choices which will involve finding a balance between keeping the reddit spirit alive AND making money. - If you don't think these changes suit your taste, you're welcome to build communities elsewhere.

I wonder if they would build a monetization API for mods, with an app-store-like cut of all money going to Reddit. It seems like they have too much work for a rational person to do for free. It also makes sense for all subs to have the different revenue strategies, since they're all so different.

I'm waiting for a good reddit alternative, been trying voat.co for a couple weeks now, and seems like the closest next best thing. It doesn't feel like reddit's what it used to be, and this might be the last straw for me...

Definitely looks like they're trying to monitize the AMAs and Victoria was against that

With that belief, why ask the question at all? For what it's worth, I don't agree with you because it is not historically true, but I'm not really free to do the legwork so no citations.

"Is it possible to compete with Digg?"

(Who??)