Comment by ANarrativeApe

That's some deep dark shit, if it's true...

And that's the problem with this interweb lark, made worse by aggregators who's algorithms can be gamed, and now we have stochastic LLMs adding to the remix, how do we know what is true?

The narrative related here is frighteningly believable, and, no doubt, so were all the reddit posts.

The difference between the narrative described by this narrative, and the narrative related in the narrative, is that one is death by a thousand cuts, the other either a well deserved take-down or an undeserved attempt at one.

I can't tell the difference, but reddit should be able to.

So this is really about whether reddit sees it's reputation as an asset to be monetized in the short-term, or invested in for the long-term. This is the classic tension between the brand manager and the brand guardian, maximize the cashflow or maximize the balance sheet value, and tells you almost everything important about a company's core culture.

How reddit handles this, it could be argued, will define reddit going forwards.

I watch with baited breath...