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Does running the ads for free count as a donation to the prop 19 campaign, and possibly trigger reporting obligations on the part of Conde Nast?
From what I can tell you only have to report expenditures greater than $1000. Maybe
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I can't believe that comments like this are upmodded but yet HN has the audacity to tout some air of supremacy while laughing at the notion of a "digg vs reddit" flame war. The community remains remarkably split on adblock use (especially on sites they like, etc). There are people that oppose plenty of drug use (calling pot a drug is disingenuous for shock factor of "calling out" reddit) and being antigay is yes, unp…
The more surprising thing IMHO is the air of superiority that Reddit users have over religion, and especially over people who watch Fox News etc. Now I'm not for one minute defending people who only watch Fox News, but there are people who only get their news from Reddit. So instead of a blinkered, biased, inaccurate kneejerkist feed of stories from Fox, they get a blinkered, biased, inaccurate kneejerkist feed of st…
Can you suggest an alternative to reddit? I really want a less politic, religion or cat pics more tech, coding and critical thinking community.
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The more surprising thing IMHO is the air of superiority that Reddit users have over religion, and especially over people who watch Fox News etc. Now I'm not for one minute defending people who only watch Fox News, but there are people who only get their news from Reddit. So instead of a blinkered, biased, inaccurate kneejerkist feed of stories from Fox, they get a blinkered, biased, inaccurate kneejerkist feed of st…
> but there are people who only get their news from Reddit. Can you suggest an alternative to reddit? I really want a less politic, religion or cat pics more tech, coding and critical thinking community.
The 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.
If I were Conde Nast, the fallout would be firing them, and yes I'm aware this may kill reddit. You were bought. Reddit does not belong to you, and you don't get to decide what to do with it. If you can't handle that then you should never have sold, or in this case you should quit.
I'm not familiar with Conde Nast's publications. Do they traditionally avoid political issue ads? If so I don't see any good reason why Reddit would be an exception. It sounds like they want to avoid the issue entirely and won't run anti Prob 19 ads either. I don't think that's unreasonable. I also have to question the value of any pro Prob 19 group spending money to advertise on Reddit. They'd be better off targetin…
I'm not familiar with Conde Nast's publications. Do they traditionally avoid political issue ads? If so I don't see any good reason why Reddit would be an exception. It sounds like they want to avoid the issue entirely and won't run anti Prob 19 ads either. I don't think that's unreasonable. I also have to question the value of any pro Prob 19 group spending money to advertise on Reddit. They'd be better off targetin…
The ones I'm familiar with are the New Yorker (respectable, and I was a subscriber when I lived in the US) and Wired (not so much, and no effin way), but I have a hard time imagining typical readers of either getting bent out of shape by marijuana use. (I mean, the New Yorker isn't the Atlantic!) Less sure about their other rags, though.
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If I were Conde Nast, the fallout would be firing them, and yes I'm aware this may kill reddit. You were bought. Reddit does not belong to you, and you don't get to decide what to do with it. If you can't handle that then you should never have sold, or in this case you should quit.
IMHO that'd make you a pretty crappy manager. Didn't Conde Nast pay something like 15 million for Reddit? And you'd make a decision that would, as you said, likely kill the site off over a little authority dispute? What a way to throw your money away.
It isn't like it's just a little authority dispute. Reddit probably costs more than it brings in, so closing it might make financial sense, too.
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The more surprising thing IMHO is the air of superiority that Reddit users have over religion, and especially over people who watch Fox News etc. Now I'm not for one minute defending people who only watch Fox News, but there are people who only get their news from Reddit. So instead of a blinkered, biased, inaccurate kneejerkist feed of stories from Fox, they get a blinkered, biased, inaccurate kneejerkist feed of st…
> but there are people who only get their news from Reddit. Can you suggest an alternative to reddit? I really want a less politic, religion or cat pics more tech, coding and critical thinking community.
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> but there are people who only get their news from Reddit. Can you suggest an alternative to reddit? I really want a less politic, religion or cat pics more tech, coding and critical thinking community.
Customize your Reddit--you can unsub from politics, atheism, and humor/pics and subscribe to other good sub-reddits in their place.
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True, but there's also the massive anarchistic user base. /r/all is/was yelling censorship top to bottom. Starting to look a lot like the Digg Revolt[1] circa '07 regarding the 09 F9 .. censorship. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AACS_encryption_key_controversy...
Not really, during the aacs thing digg literally stopped to function under the weight of 09 f9 subissions. In comparison I've seen more pro-Ron Paul sentimennt on the front page at any given time than I have prop 19 stuff today.