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Re: Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation

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Post by marcinzm »

ryandrake wrote: post #258
ben_jones wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I could easily see 100 engineers split between operations, front-end/back-end/mobile, DBA, etc. I could see a dozen each of marketing, HR (moderation + community management), project/product/team management, and C-level. The rest could easily be sales. Sure you could argue you don't need 100 engineers for that, but if you factor in on-call rotations and how they're constantly refactoring everything...

Yea, if true, that 230 figure is shocking. I wouldn’t have thought they’d have more than 25% of that. What on earth are all these employees doing? I worked at an avionics manufacturer that had a dozen or so products (things like physical displays and map systems that go into airplanes) that had less than 10 full time engineers. A few software devs, a few EE’s and an industrial engineer who did the chassis. Sure it’s…

>Does it really take that many people to maintain an already-working web site?

Probably. Unless you want to get shut down/sued for all the child pornography, narcotics trading, violent threats, doxing, etc, etc which people will use your site for. Not to mention all the other attempts to directly exploit, hack or manipulate your site. And larger scale tends to attract more bad actors.

Re: Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation

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Post by iamaelephant »

2019ideas wrote: post #313
LeoPanthera wrote: post #255

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Reddit is still a haven for the far-right. It really leaves a bad taste in my mouth that they are tolerated there.

you mean alt right. Alt right is the racism and tariff producing political force. I would hope you don't have a bad taste from right leaning economics. Not even China can deny the power of Free Markets.

Free market economics is not a "far right" concept.

Re: Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation

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Post by marcinzm »

VikingCoder wrote: post #390

Control-F: distributed (0 results) Control-F: peer (0 results) Control-F: p2p (1 result) Can we seriously not come up with a way to make a distributed reddit? I imagine running a client on sandstorm.io which is pulling content from subreddits that are each hosted in a sandstorm.io instance. Is the problem with that that it becomes too easy to doxx someone? That we like having a centralized authority that we can "trus…

>Is the problem with that that it becomes too easy to doxx someone? That we like having a centralized authority that we can "trust" for authentication / authorization / pseudo-anonymity?

Dox, send child pornography through, use to sell narcotics, plan hitman assassinations with, etc, etc. Not to mention all the fun stuff organized bands of miscreants can do to other people. Just look at Wil Wheaton's adventure with Mastodon for an example.

Re: Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation

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Post by e1ven »

asdfx wrote: post #538

I have a naive question. All these moderators do spend considerable time and effort on reddit. And now reddit is going public, do the moderators get paid going forward? why would someone want to volunteer for a profit making company?

Semi-paid volunteers are legally tricky - https://priceonomics.com/the-aol-chat-room-monitor-revolt/

People volunteer to moderate communities because they care about the value of that community. Not dissimilar from running a small forum.

Re: Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation

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Post by gojomo »

debaserab2 wrote: post #151

It amazes me the kind of sheer incompetency their product team has demonstrated over the past 2-3 years. (Edit - as pointed out in replies to this post, this is an unfair characterization fueled by my recent frustrations with the direction the site is going. I don't think it is unreasonable to point out that reddit is failing the expectations of their users, but I don't doubt for a minute that the individuals working…

> It amazes me the kind of sheer incompetency their product team has demonstrated over the past 2-3 years.

Growth & success despite inattentive & abusive product evolution (Reddit, Twitter) is actually a bullish signal of the core product's entrenchment.

Re: Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation

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Post by slg »

burfog wrote: post #485
slg wrote: post #325

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The disgusting and disrespectful portions might be a reference, but it was the "Glasses at the end of his nose" line that jumped out as a potential dog whistle. The response with 25 upvotes that talks about Shumer's "sniveling nose" also doesn't help. I know that politicians getting criticized for their looks is just part of the equation and Trump is a big victim of that. However it is a little different when you are…

The antisemitism accusation is completely over-the-top ridiculous. Trump's own daughter is a Jew. Trump moved the embassy to Jerusalem, and not one democrat showed up for the ceremony. There are a couple openly antisemitic members of congress now, Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., and Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn. Louis Farrakhan hasn't even been disowned. This is a case of projection if there ever was one.

There is a lot wrong with this comment.

To start with, nothing I said here was directed towards Trump so Ivanka isn't relevant. Even if she was, aren't we past the whole "some of my friends are black" excuse for bigotry? Plenty of people otherize a group while thinking the people they know in that group are "one of the good ones".

The next big problem is the equating Jews with all of Israel. It is entirely possible for someone to be antisemitic and pro-Israel or anti-Israel and not antisemitic. Israel is an independent nation with its own politics and there are plenty of Jews there with any number of political ideologies. Over recent years the political climate of Israel has been skewing right (in part due to the support of the American right/Evangelicals who are pro-Israel and not necessarily pro-Jews). It is therefore natural that members of the political left in this country are reacting by distancing themselves from the political actions of Israel.

I am not going to get into a debate about Palestine, Farrakhan, or anything more political than than what I mentioned above. HN is not the place for that discussion and I don't think that discussion has any relevance to the original question of whether mocking a Jewish person's nose is potentially antisemitic.

Re: Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation

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Post by pbhjpbhj »

deminature wrote: post #503
MRD85 wrote: post #365

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A lot of subreddits had that happen to them. It's sad because they are choosing who can speak and who cannot.

They're not stopping those people from speaking, they're just hiding that content from average users. It's reasonable to think the average redditor probably doesn't want to see death videos alongside their cat pictures and memes.

>"the average redditor probably doesn't want to see death videos alongside their cat pictures and memes" //

Was that possible _by accident_ in recent renditions of reddit? IME you have to be in a reddit where that sort of content is, and change settings to make it default visible?

Re: Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation

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Post by crowdpleaser »

rhcom2 wrote: post #522
crowdpleaser wrote: post #520

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>You can see people as less than human without thinking it is okay for you to hunt them as animals. Please keep reading my mind - why do I think this way? What status do I think illegals have if I want to treat them better than animals but worse than fellow citizens? >Advocating to let people die, instead of treat them, because they aren't here illegal is putting their immigration status above them as a person and to…

> I'm saying that I don't want to pay for it and I'd rather they suffer than I do. Glad to hear you admit it. Money > humanity. You can advocate for whatever you want, just like I'm free to tell you that it's a horrible idea that's only justification is to "punish" people you think deserve it.

No.

My humanity is more important to me than others. I have to take care of myself because I know others would resent me if they had to take care of me. I'm sure you wouldn't be thrilled to provide for me if I came to your house with my hat in hand.

And you feel the same way - we're just arguing over where to draw the line. If you save any money that could be donated to those in need, you've also put money above humanity. Have you ever bought a Mcflurry? Did you really need that sweet treat more badly than someone needed a malaria net?

So where's the line of sociopathy? What's the permissible amount of money to put above humanity?

Re: Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation

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Post by alexanderdmitri »

mattigames wrote: post #369
ssnistfajen wrote: post #232

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Yeah the horde of edgelords in WPD totally isn't one of the reasons the sub got quarantined. Gore will always be considered shock content, but the comments in WPD are almost always downright repulsive.

"edgelords"? Really? That's the best word you found to describe them?

What would you suggest?
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