i agree at first glance, but being confidently incorrect (especially getting the source material correct but drawing a dead wrong conclusion) is sort of a hallmark of the model.
a couple years ago i was pretty good at spotting AI work but it does get harder as time goes on.
the simple fact is that very few people volunteer to moderate online spaces without some incentive, i.e. power over others. the point of this structure is to encourage people to create and moderate communities, because if they can be voted out via mob rule (or even better, hostile takeover), then there's little reason to invest time and energy into building a group.
it's such a heckin pupper way to describe one of the biggest challenges i deal with in my life. i'm not grim about my neurodivergence but i'm sure not perky about it either.
IMO the moment that site jumped the shark was when the userbase agreed on 'reddit silver' as a way to acknowledge high quality content without being forced to pay for cyberstickers.
so of course reddit corp wasted no time monetizing it.
everything that's come since has been entirely foreseeable just based on that experience.
pweeze be sensitive of da widdle dictator's feewings :(