I am so fucking done with corporations building their very existence upon a foundation of user-created content, then getting greedy and deciding they can make big money by charging for that content.
I'm feeling like it's time for a general strike on people providing free content to corporations on the internet for nothing. No more posting on corporate-owned social media. No more unpaid support of Open Source projects. No more answering people's questions on StackOverflow. No more posting on Reddit. Enough is enough.
@jferg Quite agree on SO in particular. The changes in moderation style over the past decade rewards shitty behavior and actively punishes correct answers for not being up to laughably high standards for a site asking for free content from professionals - standards that vary from mod to multitude of mod. I’ve bailed in terms of time spent and you can see I’d invested a LOT in the community.