(Sigh)

What are you going to do? You'd expect better from /r/technology (after all, it's not /r/circlejerk or /r/funny). And you can't blame a community for a mod on a power trip. An owner or mod here could certainly do the same thing. The difference here is that there can be financial implications to a community with poor moderators. Here, if a mod drives users away (or outright bans them), the community owner loses money. And if the community owner loses money, there's less money to reward users and mods.

The decline of reddit's quality was one of the drivers for the idea of valME. It would be sad if reddit ends up like Digg. They've been good for the world. But, if it does, those people are going to want somewhere else to go. It's very possible reddit wouldn't be as big had Digg not collapsed. So valME has to be ready.

/alpha no more. Time to put nervousness aside. We are officially in beta. Let the games begin.

It appears someone doesn't have enough bugs to fix. That's a good thing.

Pics or it didn't happen.

This is great. We must add this to our enhanced functionality queue. We should add a checkbox at post submission time that easily puts Creative Commons at the bottom.

It should be in /programming.

That's true. Now, where is that functionality again that allows me to move posts? Oh, that's right. IT DOESN'T EXIST.