And the extra costs to support a feature I never use.

Exactly who knows!?
But in all seriousness, considering how large the company seems to be with outsourcing and multiple internal levels of support, it sounds like a juicy target both for ransomware and industrial espionage.

With deep fakes all around you can’t really trust a phonecall just because you believe that you recognise the voice 😉😆

My wife is like that, she can still function (though I guess it costs her) while I’m totally knocked out by mines.

I like the malicious compliance but I find that to be a bad way to do a poll. Better would have been one comment with the text “Upvote if you want John Oliver pics, downvote if you want it to go back to normal”.

The way they did it if one group only upvote their alternative and the other also downvotes the opponent then the result isn’t representative. Or at least could be claimed not to be.

This is due to a murder that happened at an IKEA a couple of years ago. The murderer used knives from the department store.

That won’t help, you need scissors to open the packaging for knives from IKEA.

I wish, I really liked G+. My sharing is based on common interests, not relationship.

It might be as Louis Rossmann said, it was a mistake to say "we’re going black for two days. They should’ve just says “were going black until you cange the rules again”.

I used both the official and boost. One for just scrolling on and one to read short stories on.

A possible problem is that they would be forced to find new volunteers to run them. While I bet there’s many who want to be “gods” I bet it’s harder to find people who can do it well enough to run a 10+ million forum. Especially hamstringed by reddits lack of modtools.

So sure, Reddit can remove the mods and do it multiple times but it will continuously lead to a worse experience and sooner or later an unacceptable amount of spam, hate and CP will cause the advertisers to pull their ads.