simAlity

You are so right. If it weren't for my family (and unemployment benefits) I would already be there. Thank you so much for helping others who haven't been as fortunate.

I think Reddit is headed in a very bad direction. The kind of passion that Victoria, Dacvak and KickMe444 brought to the table isn't the sort of thing you can just go out and find on a job board. For all three to have been given the boot says bad things about the current management and their vision for this site.

That said, Reddit will survive the current crisis. This may be the beginning of the end of the site, but it isn't The End. What happened will not be forgotten but a site like this is too big to fail overnight.

I'm not saying that Reddit is too big to fail. I am saying it is too big to fail overnight. Also, IIRC, what Digg did was cut off user generated content. Which is like committing seppaku.

back when I didn't have insurance, the pharmacist would cut the price of my monthly script down to a quarter of what other pharmacies charged ($36 vs $128.00). I asked if they would get in trouble. Pharmacist said, "no, that is still twice what we pay for it."

In a lot of ways, it is actually very different.
For one thing, Victoria was paid. Also, at AOL, we had shifts that we were expected to work. If, for some reason, you couldn't work your normal shift you had to find someone who could fill in for you. If you elected to do forum moderation you were assigned a forum (you couldn't pick) and expected to keep track of everything that happened there.

For Reddit volunteers things seem to be a lot more free-flowing. It appears to be "do what you can, when you can."

However the lack of useful tools, communication and support from the higher ups is very much the same.

Also, AOL required everybody to sign an NDA.