Conde Nast refuses to run Prop 19 ads on reddit
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Re: Conde Nast refuses to run Prop 19 ads on reddit
#2Because it doesn't want their money, so reddit is now running them for free:
http://www.reddit.com/r/ads/comments/d68xv/reddit_is_now_run...
Re: Conde Nast refuses to run Prop 19 ads on reddit
#3For those who have no idea what Prop 19 is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Proposition_19
Basically, a marijuana legalisation proposal.
Re: Conde Nast refuses to run Prop 19 ads on reddit
#4I wonder why Conde Nast even bought reddit in the first place.
It's cool that they let them run the web site as an independent entity more or less, but it really seems like they don't like supporting them (see Reddit Gold).
Re: Conde Nast refuses to run Prop 19 ads on reddit
#5>This was a decision made at the highest levels of Conde Nast.
Doesn't this put the lie to their "we're our own business and don't have anything to do with Conde Nast, that's why we need your charity" line?
Re: Conde Nast refuses to run Prop 19 ads on reddit
#6I wonder why Conde Nast even bought reddit in the first place. It's cool that they let them run the web site as an independent entity more or less, but it really seems like they don't like supporting them (see Reddit Gold).
They probably thought they were buying a broad general "What news will look like in the future" website.
In fact they ended up with a liberal pro drug, pro gay, pro adblock, anti capitalism, anti consumerism, anti advertising, athiest website.
As time has gone on Reddits userbase seems to have become narrower and narrower even though it's obviously grown massively. Maybe it's groupthink at work, or maybe it's just come to be known as a hangout for liberals being outraged by stuff.
Re: Conde Nast refuses to run Prop 19 ads on reddit
#7>This was a decision made at the highest levels of Conde Nast. Doesn't this put the lie to their "we're our own business and don't have anything to do with Conde Nast, that's why we need your charity" line?
Nope; it confirms that the Reddit guys and their Conde Nast overlords don't see eye-to-eye on a lot of issues, and that Reddit is not given the freedom (or resources, apparently) to run itself as it sees fit.
Re: Conde Nast refuses to run Prop 19 ads on reddit
#8>This was a decision made at the highest levels of Conde Nast. Doesn't this put the lie to their "we're our own business and don't have anything to do with Conde Nast, that's why we need your charity" line?
Nope; it confirms that the Reddit guys and their Conde Nast overlords don't see eye-to-eye on a lot of issues, and that Reddit is not given the freedom (or resources, apparently) to run itself as it sees fit.
Disappointing. The downside to liquidity events, I suppose.
Re: Conde Nast refuses to run Prop 19 ads on reddit
#9The fact that they're running them for free is kinda interesting. Going from corporate censoring the ads, to reddit essentially giving the campaign a huge contribution. It'll be interesting to see what the fall-out from this is.
Re: Conde Nast refuses to run Prop 19 ads on reddit
#10>This was a decision made at the highest levels of Conde Nast. Doesn't this put the lie to their "we're our own business and don't have anything to do with Conde Nast, that's why we need your charity" line?
Nope; it confirms that the Reddit guys and their Conde Nast overlords don't see eye-to-eye on a lot of issues, and that Reddit is not given the freedom (or resources, apparently) to run itself as it sees fit.
That's kinda my point - if reddit can not be allowed the freedom then CN (or AP or the Newhouse Family) have control over reddit and not reddit themselves. The donations requested are thus donations to the billionaire Newhouse cause and not to an independently run reddit.
That's just how it appears to me.