Down to -3 now. It looks like it’s a tally of downvotes on any posts and comments counted on their own. That seems to be a strange choice, and implies that the first rule of kbin must be never to argue with conspiracy theorists if you want to maintain your social credit rating.

That won’t happen. The high API prices are there to fleece the AI bros desperate for training data for their new models.

What might happen is that they might offer some limited concessions to some devs under some conditions for some period of time in the hope that this gets misreported as “Reddit says okay to devs” and the fuss dies down despite nothing having changed in the long run.