Agreed. I’m no longer active on the fairly popular sub that I founded, but I can only imagine how it would have felt to receive this message if I were.

I put endless hours of work into my sub for years. Brainstorming scalable rules, working with the community to maintain discussion quality, acculturating new users, dealing with problem users, working with OPs to help their posts meet expected standards of quality. And we did a good job. We regularly sought feedback and had a great relationship with our community.

The absolute entitlement of this guy coming along and saying that those communities into which we poured our blood, sweat, and tears belong to him. Because there is absolutely nothing in these changes that serve to improve mod quality. It’s all about forcing subs back open.

This is the danger of building a home on land that you don’t own. Steve is about to learn, though, that his land isn’t worth what he thinks it’s worth when he drives away everyone who wants to build on it.