@BlueForestDev this is the most common criticism of any kind of protest, and it's highly fallible. The entire point of a protest is to prompt change by disruption that causes inconvenience and discomfort to people. The idea that bystanders being inconvenienced should dissuade protestors completely ignores and thus dismisses the underlying reasons that prompted the protest. Inconvenienced and disgruntled users are the entire point, because those are the users who will pressure reddit to change.
@BlueForestDev I think that anyone calling mods "hostage takers" should start their own subreddits and mod them themselves. When they have to do all the maintenance and go unappreciated by both users and admin, maybe they'll start to understand. Mods are a major reason why subreddits flourish.
@BlueForestDev Disagree -- "mod tools" are unlikely to cover everything. Many, many mods use third-party clients for the more manual aspects of moderation (i.e. handling reports and manually viewing subreddit content), and those are still a dying breed.
What they have said is that NON-COMMERCIAL accessibility apps are exempt. Screw the dev who makes a good accessibility focused product that plugs the gaping holes in Reddit's offerings and actually wants a little something for their time.
I am not aware of any such statement regarding mod tools other than promising to improve their own (which they have been promising for over a decade).
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