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Reddit Welcomes Michael Seibel to Board of Directors

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Re: Reddit Welcomes Michael Seibel to Board of Directors

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Post by cmdshiftf4 »

digitaltrees wrote: post #158
cmdshiftf4 wrote: post #89

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>Honestly, even you saying this is BS. "I want my replacement to be a black person" -> black person is hired -> "were they hired because of their race?" You: How dare you even imply they were hired based on their race! If anyone is bullshitting anyone here, it's you bullshitting yourself. The sheer mental gymnastics you're working through here to be outraged at the above must take a terrible toll. This is to say noth…

Except that no one says white people that hire friends--most of which are white friends from their childhood and school background--are racially motivated and yet the impact is white people hire more white people. This implicit bias might not be intended to be harmful, but it is racially informed. If we, as a society say we need to make a conscious effort to have more decision makers from a variety of backgrounds so…

Yes - in-group bias is a real thing and is prominent across all races, ethnicities, religions, nationalities etc.

But in-group bias has literally nothing to do with the conversation we're having here.

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Post by sebastos »

brownkonas wrote: post #91
ori_b wrote: post #88

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That goose already got killed with the new UI. It's only usable via old.reddit.com now.

Maybe in the minority , but I think the UX of the mobile app is fantastic: * attractive card view * good actions from the list * good actions from the comments view * great performance

>great performance

Compared to what?!?

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Post by tmpz22 »

bigiain wrote: post #179
stevewillows wrote: post #23

This could also be an excellent move if they're planning to expand RPAN into a proper streaming platform. There's definitely potential for it.

Right. With Twitch just having given in to copyright trolls and deplatformed all the DJs with multiple strikes against 2-3 year old content and no tools for the Twitch users to practically deal with the new punishments in a timely enough fashion to not get auto-permabanned? I cannot see "a proper streaming platform" happening under his watch. :sigh:

Not sure why you're being downvotted. Twitch is going through a DRM crisis right now that may make other comparable products impossible to build for other companies.

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Post by Abishek_Muthian »

jstgord wrote: post #87

Dear Reddit, for the love of Mike .. PLEASE treat reddit as a web-first platform. You are killing the golden goose by trying to force people toward the app - by gradually removing features and usability from the mobile web site and constantly reminding people they "should" use the app. I don't want reddit as an 'app', I want reddit to be readable/scrollable on mobile and web without any form of coercion.

Also, there seems to be A/B testing w.r.t email id requirement when signing up on web i.e. it's not optional all the time.

Doesn't seem to be the case with mobile app, last time I checked.

Seems like another way to push App adoption.

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Post by baddox »

joegahona wrote: post #214
baddox wrote: post #178

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I don’t think that’s the only difficulty. There’s something else going on in iOS. YouTube links don’t even open in the YouTube app on my iPhone (I have to load the safari page, add them to Watch Later, then switch to the YouTube app). It does, however, work on my iPad.

Do you have to be logged in to add them to Watch Later? The same thing happens to me with Youtube, but only on iPad, not iPhone. The way I get the app open is, when I get to Safari, I try to open the page in desktop. Youtube app kicks open then.

You do have to be logged in, and I am logged into YouTube in Safari.

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Post by bawolff »

bigiain wrote: post #183
hnzix wrote: post #101

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> Nothing good comes out of reddit that is not put into reddit from the outside. The good that comes from inside Reddit is the curation, as much as everyone likes to complain about it. They have become more proactive about banning hate and grief subreddits and have a system for reporting and shadowbanning bad faith individuals. If anything one could argue they come down a little too hard on borderline controversial s…

"Curation"? By five totally unaccountable mods, all pushing brands for money? https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/gitwbo/p... That curation is "The good that comes from inside Reddit"???

So? I dont care who the mods are. Reddit is a glorified collection of web forums. Like all web forums they live and die by the signal to noise ratio. Reddit is popular because most subreddits match up to some subgroup that thinks it has decent signal to noise ratio.

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Post by julianeon »

admin1010 wrote: post #199
julianeon wrote: post #120

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People are acting like Seibel's about to assume the role of President of the Universe. It's just the reddit board. If it's so awesome, can you name the other people who are on it, as of today? Guaranteed that 95% of the people reading this did not know that this august institution also includes, and would not have known were it not for this comment: Sam Altman (famous, not surprising) Robert Sauerberg (probably less…

I thought Keith Rabois was on the board too.

This led me down an interesting rabbit hole. It turns out that Rablois left and Porter was his replacement. I see that Rabois was on the board in ‘16 from a comment, but I don’t know the timeline behind this.

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Post by etrabroline »

LyndsySimon wrote: post #160
screye wrote: post #154

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I think OP's point has to do with the perceived value of their moral signaling vs the actual morals themselves. It is a win-win for Reddit in terms of perception, whether they have to fight a case because of it or not. If anything, this would be an 'any publicity is good publicity' situation. Now if it is actually inline with a truly moral stance...who cares. In this system there are only 3 morals. Money, money and m…

I was explicitly not taking a position on the action itself. I’m honestly interested to see how this might open a company to litigation.

In the past, SCOTUS has ruled that laws banning discrimination only grant new rights to the group the legislators were interested in helping. So anti-age discrimination laws only prevent discriminating against the old, not the young. If you understand the politics of race in America, it will actually not be very interesting to see how US courts will rule here.

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Post by jedberg »

Digory wrote: post #55
adewinter wrote: post #33

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Just because Ohanian asked doesn't mean they had to do it. One can therefore conclude that they still chose a suitable candidate and would have chosen a differently colored candidate could they not find a suitable black candidate.

Reddit publicly committed to selecting a director based on race.[0] Hiring and firing in the US based on race is typically unlawful, even if the candidate is qualified. You can’t use race as a qualification. It’s a challenge to the laws, and I assume Reddit(or Conde Nast) wants to raise it. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&...

Reddit hasn't been owned by Conde Nast for a long time.

Board members aren't employees, so discrimination rules don't apply. In fact California already has a law requiring discrimination based on gender (another protected class) for boards. All California companies must have one female board member and have at least two by 2021.

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