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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 pvg »

Supermancho wrote: post #281
pvg wrote: post #148

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is a really poor analogy. The position of captain of on a warship is almost entirely unlike that of a corporate board member and corporate board members often represent external interests.

> This is a really poor analogy. The position of captain of on a warship Trying to show viewpoints in the clearest and most concise way, is the height of discourse. Making a backdoor point by claiming "poor analogy" is basically noise on noise. It muddles both the original point and fails to make a coherent followup. Defining a different set of criteria for what to compare on, does not change the initial comparison i…

What is the specific 'backdoor point' you take issue with? Comparing a thing to a thing that is not that thing is not 'the height of discourse'. The comment made a point, I made a different point. Which is not necessarily the height of but at least qualifies as discourse. I'm not sure what to make of an objection that ends with exhorting me to define an interpretation.

Re: Reddit Welcomes Michael Seibel to Board of Directors

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Post by kortilla »

pvg wrote: post #148
rayiner wrote: post #83

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Presumably for the same reason you wouldn’t get a civil rights activist to replace the captain in a Navy boat. We need people fighting for civil rights, but we also need to create room for people from diverse backgrounds to do all of the rest of the work that needs doing.

This is a really poor analogy. The position of captain of on a warship is almost entirely unlike that of a corporate board member and corporate board members often represent external interests.

You do know that analogies very often compare too very unlike things for the express purpose of their difference, right?

“Don’t cut off your nose to spite your face” is very rarely compared with cutting off actual body parts.

Re: Reddit Welcomes Michael Seibel to Board of Directors

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Post by pvg »

kortilla wrote: post #292
pvg wrote: post #148

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is a really poor analogy. The position of captain of on a warship is almost entirely unlike that of a corporate board member and corporate board members often represent external interests.

You do know that analogies very often compare too very unlike things for the express purpose of their difference, right? “Don’t cut off your nose to spite your face” is very rarely compared with cutting off actual body parts.

Metaphors, similes, idioms, etc are not the same thing as analogies. To make an argument by analogy the things you're analogizing have to be at least somewhat analogous. These plainly aren't. It's possible rayiner thought Siebel would become reddit's CEO. But other than that, it takes a great deal of weird intellectual contortion to compare 'captain' to 'board member'.

Re: Reddit Welcomes Michael Seibel to Board of Directors

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Post by raxxorrax »

kortilla wrote: post #290
raxxorrax wrote: post #276

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That doesn't really make their calls to diversity in any way believable.

Diversity in backgrounds, not diversity in skills. You don’t hire incompetent board members to check a box anymore than you hire programmers who can’t program to check a box.

I am not against his hiring, he seems like a really smart and successful guy. Hopefully he didn't get hired because he is black, because that doesn't really indicate a diverse background.

Re: Reddit Welcomes Michael Seibel to Board of Directors

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Post by baby »

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.

I gave up and got the app, but f* them seriously for all the shady ux forcing you to get the app, never experienced something that extreme

Re: Reddit Welcomes Michael Seibel to Board of Directors

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Post by throwawaypop »

nexuist wrote: post #184
throwawaypop wrote: post #169

Being a republican, I'm scared of the leadership choices social platforms are making. Michael Seibel is a pro-Democrat and anti republican and anti-Trump. For god sake, allow reddit to have free-speech and don't censor the voices of "silent majority" in the USA. P.S 60M American citizens voted for Trump.

I don't see why Republicans can't just use another platform like gab or voat if they think reddit has become hostile to them. Reddit being a private company has every right to control what ideologies are promoted on their pages just as you have every right to start your own reddit clone and moderate it however you feel. There's even an open source core with which to start from: https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddi…

The answer seems very immature to me. Just because we have a president which folks hate doesn't mean companies should just go and represent left idelogies. These platforms were built once by folks who believed in freedom of speech and opinions.

We are clearly leaving *63M+ people in USA when we make content moderation choices which are left-friendly. I'm not into talking politics. I wish these platforms allow freedom of speech which was one of the founding principles in early days of Internet.

Re: Reddit Welcomes Michael Seibel to Board of Directors

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Post by DoingIsLearning »

leesec wrote: post #134

Please get rid of the flow where it shows me other threads when I click on the comments of a current thread. I'm never going to switch to a new thread from the comments. I just want to read the comments.

I am almost unwilling to advertise this, out of fear that they might disable it if it gains a lot of traffic.

But... reddit has older versions still online.

Desktop: old.reddit.com

Mobile: reddit.com/.compact

In fact you can just append the '.compact' to any reddit link on mobile and it will render it more sanely.

The day either of these features get disabled, is the day I will stop using the platform.

edit: typo

Re: Reddit Welcomes Michael Seibel to Board of Directors

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Post by tomnipotent »

kortilla wrote: post #286
tomnipotent wrote: post #270

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> The board of directors sets the strategy for the firm. I have never seen this be the case, though I can only speak for start-ups and early post-IPO eras. The board provides oversight over the CEO and other executives responsible for planning in the organization. They review quarterly earnings and other financials, and provide feedback and thoughts on what the company wants to do in the subsequent planning period (w…

> I have never seen this be the case, though I can only speak for start-ups and early post-IPO eras. That’s usually because the founder(s) still have majority control at that point so the board just takes an advisory role. The dynamic completely changes when the board members can form a majority and remove the entire C suite.

> can form a majority and remove the entire C suite.

Having this power doesn't give them any authority over strategy, it just means that with proper paperwork they can remove someone. But boards don't put someone in the pilot seat unless they expect them to fly. CEO's are given a considerable amount of latitude (remember Adam Neumann?).

Re: Reddit Welcomes Michael Seibel to Board of Directors

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Post by varjag »

dessant wrote: post #244
gerdesj wrote: post #118

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Bear in mind that not all companies are quite as big as this lot. I don't know the actual stats for any country but I think that small companies are quite important in terms of additive scale. In general your small company has a nasty habit of hiring people, abiding by the rules and paying taxes. So, I happen to be a Managing Director of a small company (UK) - we have 20 odd employees and a t/o of ~£1.5M. We are a pr…

> shareholders only get tickled So, how can we become shareholders of your company?

Get employed in their company, and after certain seniority and performance you'll possibly be able to negotiate share ownership.
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