Even forcing mods out and replacing them with complaisant ones? Is this the textbook example how not to handle discontent? I suppose it’s “business first” rather than “communities first”, but in doing so they’re going to ruin both.

I’ve thought a little bit about the

There are also users who are uploading irrelevant content to the platform in order to diminish the value of the company

Maybe we could use this to fight things like CoPilot? Upload generated trash code to github?

Interesting fact: this technique has been used many times for rigging search results either for profit, defamation, or fun. It works! — for a while.