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Reddit Founder Alexis Ohanian Resigns from the Board of Reddit

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Re: Reddit Founder Alexis Ohanian Resigns from the Board of Reddit

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Post by colinmhayes »

s9w wrote: post #76
lksaar wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

r/mgtow, r/metacanada, r/KotakuInAction, r/TumblrinAction, r/unpopularopinion, r/politicalcompassmemes are candidates. The subreddit about the upcoming AAA game "The Last of Us 2" is pretty vile aswell.

If you consider KIA, unpopularopinion and making fun of TLOU2 as vile then I'm not sure what that word even means. plus: There are regular calls to murder all cops these days on reddit. In plain sight. Just imagine what would happen for any of those "bad" subs if they wouldn't remove those within seconds.

KIA is undeniably vile. If you don't consider it vile I'm not sure what that word even means.

Re: Reddit Founder Alexis Ohanian Resigns from the Board of Reddit

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Post by AlexandrB »

logicslave wrote: post #130
alecb wrote: post #57

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What "political agenda"? If anything, the original core of the site was very left-leaning or heterodox technophiles that didn't have a home on Slashdot. The political parts of the site are now very much deadlocked in the center-right frame of the Democratic party, pretty far away from what the site once was.

Posts and content that have an agenda behind them are unnaturally surfaced on the front page.

Or posts and content that have an agenda behind them are popular and naturally end up on the front page. I see a lot of speculation about reddit being manipulated and no evidence of such manipulation being posted.

Re: Reddit Founder Alexis Ohanian Resigns from the Board of Reddit

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Post by icedchai »

disposekinetics wrote: post #90
MarcellusDrum wrote: post #32

Reddit got too mainstream for its own good. The company desperately wants to become the new social media (think Facebook or Twitter), but many users are standing in the way, making the change from a discussion website to a social media website slow. What made me and many others use Reddit in the first place is that it didn't really matter who you are and what's your political and religious background, the only thing…

Do you know of any federated/distributed alternatives to reddit? Although, maybe the argument is we don't actually need a social media platform at all just RSS.

Usenet was the original "reddit."

Re: Reddit Founder Alexis Ohanian Resigns from the Board of Reddit

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Post by colpabar »

asdff wrote: post #216
sevenf0ur wrote: post #55

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Yes, I routinely see left leaning political ads on the front page. I really don't see what good could come from Alexis's resignation. The site is already a left leaning echo chamber and most of the controversial subs are quarantined or outright banned. Any new ones that crop up are routinely removed. The most controversial (the_donald) has been effectively shutdown for months and removed from r/all for years. What mo…

It's simple, you take the inverse. If you are looking for the right leaning accounts, look at the most downvoted and controversial comments in a given political thread. I will say that true conservatism is few and far between, and it doesn't help that the viral strategy the GOP has settled on in recent years is heaps and heaps of outright false or racist memes, so there just isn't much good right leaning content bein…

sorting by controversial is usually much more interesting anyway. top comments on reddit are almost always a meaningless quip that echoes the message of whatever is being shared.

Re: Reddit Founder Alexis Ohanian Resigns from the Board of Reddit

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Post by dwaltrip »

geofft wrote: post #100
ilikehurdles wrote: post #17

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Here's a relevant totally hypothetical "long con" involving Ellen Pao's hiring-and-firing and re-hiring of the original founders: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/3cs78i/whats_the... The hypothesis is posed by Yishan Wong, an ex-CEO, with responses from Altman and Ohanian. edit: I made a mistake understanding this story. Please see the correct timeline in geofft's comment.

Relevant, but I think the timeline is a bit subtler than that. (Mostly, the CEO referenced in that story is Wong himself, not Pao.) - Reddit was acquired by Condé Nast in 2006. - Founders Alexis Ohanian and Steve Huffman left in 2009. - Yishan Wong became CEO in March 2012. - Reddit raised its Series B in September 2014, led by Sam Altman. Wong was one of the investors. - Wong resigns in November 2014. Ellen Pao beco…

Thanks for this, very helpful. I had no idea Ohanian was the root cause of that incident.

Re: Reddit Founder Alexis Ohanian Resigns from the Board of Reddit

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Post by jp_sc »

eganist wrote: post #73
s9w wrote: post #52

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r/relationship_advice is quite infamous for its extreme stance.

We've got a pretty straightforward stance, really. We don't tolerate intolerance, and mindful consent is a pre-requisite for all things. That's it. Amazing how much that weeds out. :)

The approved comments are actually the extreme ones. Eg.: Post: "After 10 years of marriage, today my husband didn't say good morning back to me. Is that normal?". Comments:"OMG the monster is probably planning to kill you, you must leave him at once and ruin his life."

Re: Reddit Founder Alexis Ohanian Resigns from the Board of Reddit

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Post by 0bscur3 »

meowface wrote: post #162
purephase wrote: post #12

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Yeah, TD alone was huge in 2016-2017 and was a huge contributor to the dynamic we have in the world today. Ellen is 100% right here and Alex did absolutely nothing to address it. Good on her for publicly calling it out.

I think if TD were banned in 2016, there's a decent chance the world would look even worse and more polarized today, due to the backlash and chain reactions that would have occurred. Picture "TOP SOCIAL MEDIA COMPANY BANS SUPPORT OF THE PRESIDENT" headlines running for months. Picture Trump bringing it up in hundreds of speeches and tweets, demanding regulation and saying how unfair it is that he and his supporters a…

This is 100% what would have happen, and Fox News would air this endlessly.

This would make the SV and "the left" look worse and more political, including in the eyes of fairly moderate people.

Re: Reddit Founder Alexis Ohanian Resigns from the Board of Reddit

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Post by bitwize »

fernandotakai wrote: post #200
z9e wrote: post #122

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Funny how much this is being downvoted.

right? i never ever see right wing content on reddit's /r/all frontpage, but i ALWAYS see left-wing content (including there small subreddits with 10k+ upvotes). see, i'm not conservative (i'm absurdly socially liberal and a bit fiscally conservative -- i prefer less taxes and less government spending in general) but it's baffling that people call reddit a "right-wing-cesspool". if you look at unfiltered /r/all right…

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Re: Reddit Founder Alexis Ohanian Resigns from the Board of Reddit

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Post by at-fates-hands »

asdff wrote: post #209
alecb wrote: post #70

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The site became mainstream while still being extremely vulnerable to manipulation by a very small pool of individuals. They've done next to nothing to address how effective and rampant brigading is (among other tactics).

It really doesn't take much to brigade. Write some scripts to get 100 accounts upvoting your posts while they are on new, and chances are after that initial hump you've surmounted with your bots it will catch exponential viewership over the course of the day and make it to the front page.

You see this happening constantly on Twitter. You see unverified accounts with one or two followers having tweets that are trending within a few minutes with tens of thousands of "likes" and thousands of "retweets" and Twitter doesn't even blink an eye, but its so blatantly obvious what's happening.

Re: Reddit Founder Alexis Ohanian Resigns from the Board of Reddit

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Post by xtracto »

harryh wrote: post #85

I think that resignation as a form of protest can be powerful when you are a junior member of a team and you think senior members are doing the wrong thing. But when you are on the board of directors, you are the boss. In that case resignation is an abdication of leadership and a tacit admission that you have done a poor job.

> But when you are on the board of directors, you are the boss.

Not if your board is comprised of 8 other people that own 80% of the company.

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