I honestly don't see it making a difference. Not just for mods and content creators, but most level headed users. What made me come here first instead of Reddit is the lack of circlejerking and the feel of community. I've been attacked on Reddit just for the NFL team I support, in a totally unrelated thread. The karma whoring is also ridiculous and runs the site down. Those things don't appear to happen here and, if there was a mobile app too, I'd probably never go back. I'm sure I'm not the only one.
so .... what NFL team do you support? :P We, we, we, we, we. No I. She doesn't take any personal responsibility for decisions she made, and instead tries to deflect it as some kind of collective guilt. She needs to own up to her mistakes, or she's never going to obtain any respect fro the community. Right now the apology post has 587 upvotes and over 20,000 comments. People are not liking the response, at all.We screwed up. Not just on July 2, but also over the past several years.
The Patriots. I'm not surprised by the response, people aren't that stupid. The problem is, until the content creators get so fed up with it all they leave the website, there will be no effect since the majority of traffic is people lurking or driven by people sharing the links on their facebook and twitter feeds.