It's gaming an algorithm.
Big deals like this aren't made off one person's decision, there's all these metrics that are supposed to show the health of a company. But like anything, if you know the metrics you can just focus on that even if it's the literal worst thing to do. It pumps the metrics.
They're not trying to keep reddit alive forever, they want to juice the metrics so it's worth the absolute most on IPO day. It's all they care about.
I once got a bot reply that was word for word a comment I had made somewhere else in the same thread...
Like, people always joked that everyone was a bot, but I think it was a lot more than anyone thought.
There was escrow fail-safes.
If they didn't pay, there was funds sitting there to avoid downtime.
Took a while to burn through them, then they never got replenished.
Why are you talking about Vietnam?
Vietnam is the reason we support with money and not bodies...
And why did you tell me to "stop repeating slogans" when you're the only one that's used a slogan?
Every argument against pineapple on pizza can be made about tomatoes.