And that, ladies and gentlemen is why we should stop reading Slashdot comments altogether.

Is he the one with the orange coloured skin or the other one, I get confused ðY"

What could possibly go wrong? The next thing you know it turns into a game of one upmanship, and you find your penis enlargement pump for all the world to see! Do, or don't be a, ahem, dick about it.

The real winners are spambots. What the new mods and Reddit readers will discover is that Reddit will have more bots and AI spammers. The new mods will have weaker tools to deal with this.

And to be expected if you look at the previous history of many nuclear projects.

Well put. Damned either if you do or don't. Plus, Reddit management have clearly shown that they don't give a fuck.

The hard ball attitude from management, being called landed gentry, plus no willingness to compromise and poorer mod tools mean it isn't all that weird.

I resigned as a mod from Reddit for two reasons: 1. Spez and co treated the mods shittily. 2. The users forever treating mods like trash. Case in point.