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Reddit Co-Founder Alexis Ohanian Steps Aside, Focuses on Initialized Capital

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Re: Reddit Co-Founder Alexis Ohanian Steps Aside, Focuses on Initialized Capital

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Post by ddevault »

komali2 wrote: post #7
faitswulff wrote: post #5

Full text: Reddit Co-Founder Alexis Ohanian announced on Wednesday he will step down from daily duties at the internet company and focus his attention on Initialized Capital, the early stage venture capital firm that he co-founded and is known for investments such as Coinbase and Instacart. He will continue to sit on Reddit’s board. Mr. Ohanian, 34, said the timing of his decision reflected a number of personal and p…

While I appreciate you doing this, is this not "reprinting without permission?" EDIT: Downvotes could mean many things. The next person planning on hitting the downvote button, could you spare for me a brief reply letting me know why? EDIT2: Ugh, now I'm the "downvote edit guy." Obviously irrelevant now, but I don't want to remove the first edit and screw over people saying "I downvoted you because x," so, apologies…

Working around paywalls is a sanctioned HN passtime, and paywalls without workarounds are banned (though I have never seen this enforced, much to my displeasure).

Re: Reddit Co-Founder Alexis Ohanian Steps Aside, Focuses on Initialized Capital

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Post by kwelstr »

faitswulff wrote: post #5

Full text: Reddit Co-Founder Alexis Ohanian announced on Wednesday he will step down from daily duties at the internet company and focus his attention on Initialized Capital, the early stage venture capital firm that he co-founded and is known for investments such as Coinbase and Instacart. He will continue to sit on Reddit’s board. Mr. Ohanian, 34, said the timing of his decision reflected a number of personal and p…

Reddit is done, I deleted my long time reddit account last month, it has become a circle jerk and even small subreddits are mostly useless. I remember when it was a real source of interesting news and comments. Hacker News is my online forum now and sometimes I even check slashdot for all times sake.

Re: Reddit Co-Founder Alexis Ohanian Steps Aside, Focuses on Initialized Capital

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Post by paxy »

faitswulff wrote: post #5

Full text: Reddit Co-Founder Alexis Ohanian announced on Wednesday he will step down from daily duties at the internet company and focus his attention on Initialized Capital, the early stage venture capital firm that he co-founded and is known for investments such as Coinbase and Instacart. He will continue to sit on Reddit’s board. Mr. Ohanian, 34, said the timing of his decision reflected a number of personal and p…

Whoa, did not know he invested in Coinbase.

Re: Reddit Co-Founder Alexis Ohanian Steps Aside, Focuses on Initialized Capital

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Post by komali2 »

Quarrelsome wrote: post #10
komali2 wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

While I appreciate you doing this, is this not "reprinting without permission?" EDIT: Downvotes could mean many things. The next person planning on hitting the downvote button, could you spare for me a brief reply letting me know why? EDIT2: Ugh, now I'm the "downvote edit guy." Obviously irrelevant now, but I don't want to remove the first edit and screw over people saying "I downvoted you because x," so, apologies…

probably pay-wall protest. At the very least its a "try-me" position to see how companies who implement pay-walls respond to this obvious outcome.

I have no problem with protesting pay walls, I hate them too.

However, correct me if I'm wrong, reprinting wholesale a journal's article is a copyright crime in the USA, is it not? Or I guess it constitutes fair use somehow?

Re: Reddit Co-Founder Alexis Ohanian Steps Aside, Focuses on Initialized Capital

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Post by etjossem »

komali2 wrote: post #14
Quarrelsome wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

probably pay-wall protest. At the very least its a "try-me" position to see how companies who implement pay-walls respond to this obvious outcome.

I have no problem with protesting pay walls, I hate them too. However, correct me if I'm wrong, reprinting wholesale a journal's article is a copyright crime in the USA, is it not? Or I guess it constitutes fair use somehow?

You are right. Also, the wall of text can be a little annoying. So I recommend accessing this article via https://t.co/GVSZAdt6EV (the link from Ohanian's Twitter post), which doesn't paywall it.

As a submitter doing a workaround, I'd much rather find a legit link to a non-paywalled version of the article, instead of copying content.

Re: Reddit Co-Founder Alexis Ohanian Steps Aside, Focuses on Initialized Capital

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Post by wand3r »

komali2 wrote: post #7
faitswulff wrote: post #5

Full text: Reddit Co-Founder Alexis Ohanian announced on Wednesday he will step down from daily duties at the internet company and focus his attention on Initialized Capital, the early stage venture capital firm that he co-founded and is known for investments such as Coinbase and Instacart. He will continue to sit on Reddit’s board. Mr. Ohanian, 34, said the timing of his decision reflected a number of personal and p…

While I appreciate you doing this, is this not "reprinting without permission?" EDIT: Downvotes could mean many things. The next person planning on hitting the downvote button, could you spare for me a brief reply letting me know why? EDIT2: Ugh, now I'm the "downvote edit guy." Obviously irrelevant now, but I don't want to remove the first edit and screw over people saying "I downvoted you because x," so, apologies…

I honestly regularly flag articles where the OP or somneone else does not put the full text in the comments. This is a community and there has been a huge uptick in news articles posted. While HN doesn't require "tech" articles I have noticed a big uptick in paywalled news articles hitting the FP and on mobile it is really a hassle when >10-20% of the front page is either not-accessible or requires a large amount of clicking.

While I understand your argument and why you make it I disagree vehemently and therefore I downvoted you. I believe that either HNers should circumvent the paywall and the content owners will likely benefit from the upvote in exposure for this who can afford/want to pay for it, or otherwise WSJ, NYT and others should be banned from HN.

Re: Reddit Co-Founder Alexis Ohanian Steps Aside, Focuses on Initialized Capital

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Post by peteey »

kwelstr wrote: post #12
faitswulff wrote: post #5

Full text: Reddit Co-Founder Alexis Ohanian announced on Wednesday he will step down from daily duties at the internet company and focus his attention on Initialized Capital, the early stage venture capital firm that he co-founded and is known for investments such as Coinbase and Instacart. He will continue to sit on Reddit’s board. Mr. Ohanian, 34, said the timing of his decision reflected a number of personal and p…

Reddit is done, I deleted my long time reddit account last month, it has become a circle jerk and even small subreddits are mostly useless. I remember when it was a real source of interesting news and comments. Hacker News is my online forum now and sometimes I even check slashdot for all times sake.

Some people like low effort repetitive content. I don't think its good, but there is a market for that type of entertainment.

Re: Reddit Co-Founder Alexis Ohanian Steps Aside, Focuses on Initialized Capital

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Post by vxNsr »

Interesting that he named his daughter after himself. I guess having a unisex name had its benefits.

More importantly,I agree that reddit's public perception had changed a lot in the last year, it went from seeming like a boys club where others were tolerated to being totally nondinominational. Obviously there are still some subs that are pretty insular but for the most part as they've grown they've gotten nicer.

Re: Reddit Co-Founder Alexis Ohanian Steps Aside, Focuses on Initialized Capital

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Post by kaffee »

komali2 wrote: post #7
faitswulff wrote: post #5

Full text: Reddit Co-Founder Alexis Ohanian announced on Wednesday he will step down from daily duties at the internet company and focus his attention on Initialized Capital, the early stage venture capital firm that he co-founded and is known for investments such as Coinbase and Instacart. He will continue to sit on Reddit’s board. Mr. Ohanian, 34, said the timing of his decision reflected a number of personal and p…

While I appreciate you doing this, is this not "reprinting without permission?" EDIT: Downvotes could mean many things. The next person planning on hitting the downvote button, could you spare for me a brief reply letting me know why? EDIT2: Ugh, now I'm the "downvote edit guy." Obviously irrelevant now, but I don't want to remove the first edit and screw over people saying "I downvoted you because x," so, apologies…

Why are you taking it upon yourself to say such a thing? You're doing free work for the legal industry.

Fighting copyright monopolies is hard enough without adding Stockholm syndrome to the mix.

Re: Reddit Co-Founder Alexis Ohanian Steps Aside, Focuses on Initialized Capital

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Post by greenleafjacob »

Isn’t it misleading to say Reddit is backed by YC now?

> reddit has had a long and complex history, starting as one of the first Y Combinator companies, then as a division of Conde Nast, and three years ago spun out as an independent entity.

Then they raised 50M in 2014.

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