after my equilibrium dies
Metabolism?
Pretty sure that’s what happens nearly everywhere not specifically the UK.
Everyone should have started wearing pants with a ton of text on it.
The slow change and then tipping point is probably less to do with building up inertia and more in line with how a buffered system works.
So many users didn’t know the difference. And probably thought mods were paid to work. And didn’t bother to read any of the stickies or links subreddits posted explaining the whole situation.
Makes sense when you look at what the ratings used to mean (2 stars mean “worth a detour” and 3 stars meant “worth a special journey”). They wanted to find restaurants to get people to use cars and potentially drive out of their way which would increase tire sales.
I don’t trust reddit reporting that value accurately. Not saying it is a huge percentage, but they likely doing some things to minimize the numerator and maximize the denominator.
But yeah, definitely about control. They could have monetized users on third party apps with more reasonable API pricing. People would probably have barely noticed and that’d be new revenue for reddit that didn’t exist before.
Being used to protect against Ant Man.