“They weren’t elected!” Says the man who is making decisions no one but the wealthy want using authority bestowed on him by the oligarchic rules of the system he helped create.

Someone punch this douche in his face

He Is preparing the field for removing the mods and appointing new mods that "listen" the community (but not really).

and spez is the king with no clothes

Interesting spin, considering that posts about the blackout are some of the top upvoted posts in some of the subreddits with 80-90% upvote rate. But sure it is the evil unpaid mods.

Unpaid volunteers famously have too much power

Didn’t basically all of these subs poll the user base? I know squaredcircle did

I do have to give it to the moderators, they made this asshole show his true colors. There's no going back to Reddit now.

They are tenant farmers,. he is the landed gentry. The provide him within income and produce. He provides a cottage and a rusty plough

Tell me you don’t know what ‘landed gentry’ means without telling me you don’t know what ‘landed gentry’ means.

u/spez is a fuckwad with a little dick

Except for, you know, the land, and the wealth, and the social power. What a weirdo.

Interesting spin, considering that posts about the blackout are some of the top upvoted posts in some of the subreddits with 80-90% upvote rate. But sure it is the evil unpaid mods.

I literally smiled and said wtf as I read this headline. The article really makes him sound like a tool that doesn't appreciate what he has.

Somebody's using the Magna Carta backwards again...

This dude keeps giving these absolutely batshit pull quotes to reporters and then his other executives whine about reporters not focusing on the parts they like, it's like corporate PR 101 shit

Like he whinges about "needing to be an adult company" but like the first rule is to not lose your cool with the reporters lol

/u/spez is truly a font of strange and wonderful phrases that don't mean at all what he intends them to.

This guy....

And he brings it up NOW, when the mods collectively did something that threatened his pocketbook, instead of when powermods were running rampant on the default subreddits.

While I support the principle of having mod elections, in practice it doesn't work for internet communities because there's really nothing there to fight against vote manipulations.

I do think federated instances will solve this issue though, if the community you subscribe to did something you don't like, there's nothing stopping you from just go to another community about the same topic with mods that you do like, because subreddit name squatting is near impossible on Lemmy.

What a fucking liar.

Is it true he was a moderator for r/jailbait?

This should be posted on c/reddit, but it is off-topic here.

This guy is something else. Yikes. So glad I don’t mod any more subs.

What an absolute bag of hammers this guy is.