Huffman said in an interview that he plans to institute rules changes that would allow Reddit users to vote out moderators who have overseen the protest, comparing them to a “landed gentry.”
Huffman said in an interview that he plans to institute rules changes that would allow Reddit users to vote out moderators who have overseen the protest, comparing them to a “landed gentry.”
He’s not completely wrong with the powermod=landed gentry analogy (and the implied spez=king analogy, for that matter). People have been (weakly) protesting and trying (not very successfully) to leave over the powermod situation for years, and it’s true that the powermods aren’t friends of ours.
But he seems to be suggesting that the protests are just the actions of the powermods, as if other users (and smaller mods) aren’t also leaving. I think he’s going to be disappointed when he discovers that the peasantry are also upset. They just don’t have has his ear because he’s so removed from them, so all he hears are the powermods.
The landed gentry were landlords, making money off of other people’s domestic and business activities.
Spez is the landed gentry.
Spez thinks himself royalty. He’s not wrong: he has the unilateral power to strip the “lords” of their titles and purge the gentry.
Who he thinks he is fooling by trying to portray such a purge as a peasant revolt, I don’t know.
He seems to have lost his mind.