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Re: Reddit Welcomes Michael Seibel to Board of Directors

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Post by _pius »

username90 wrote: post #331
russellendicott wrote: post #252

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There was a reddit announcement the other day that stated /u/kn0thing was stepping down from the board and requested that a black person fill his place. https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/gxas21/upcom...

As a non American I don't know how you label things, but can this guy even be considered black? He looks like a regular person from southern Europe. https://news.yale.edu/sites/default/files/styles/horizontal_...

"... can this guy even be considered black? He looks like a regular person ..."

This subtly dehumanizing idea that certain races are normal while others are irregular is the root of many problems.

Re: Reddit Welcomes Michael Seibel to Board of Directors

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Post by globular-toast »

newsbinator wrote: post #311

I was interested in comparing to what the previous welcome blog post was like: > Reddit Welcomes Porter Gale to Board of Directors > May 28, 2019 https://redditblog.com/2019/05/28/reddit-welcomes-porter-gal...

Interesting. Thank you.

Re: Reddit Welcomes Michael Seibel to Board of Directors

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Post by john-radio »

andrewzah wrote: post #211
bigiain wrote: post #183

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"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"???

Dramatics aside, the best subreddits tend to be the ones that are strongly curated. /r/AskHistorians, /r/neutralpolitics, etc.

Those are very good subreddits (/r/nosleep is another strongly curated, excellent one with a different purpose) but I don't think that can stand up as a general rule at all. /r/NoStupidQuestions, /r/CrazyIdeas, /r/LearnPython...

Re: Reddit Welcomes Michael Seibel to Board of Directors

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Post by globular-toast »

username90 wrote: post #331
russellendicott wrote: post #252

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There was a reddit announcement the other day that stated /u/kn0thing was stepping down from the board and requested that a black person fill his place. https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/gxas21/upcom...

As a non American I don't know how you label things, but can this guy even be considered black? He looks like a regular person from southern Europe. https://news.yale.edu/sites/default/files/styles/horizontal_...

In America, yes. See the "one-drop rule". But it's ridiculous. I know black people. I've been to Africa and met black people as well as having black friends in the UK. This guy is white. He's as white as Obama.

Re: Reddit Welcomes Michael Seibel to Board of Directors

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Post by blaser-waffle »

formercoder wrote: post #340
antihero wrote: post #312

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So if they have a meeting every 3 months, what is the rest of their time spent doing? Sounds like a pretty cushy job.

They are often named in lawsuits. The cushy $100k/yr can easily be eaten up by legal fees.

$100k a year is peanuts; Fortune 500 boards often go way higher. And board members usually sit on multiple boards, so that's more like 500k/yr, plus tiny stipends for sitting on the local YMCA board and the committee of the local orchestra.

From posts further down:

> For example, here is the one Alphabet published recently for 2020: https://abc.xyz/investor/static/pdf/2020_alphabet_proxy_stat....

and then a follow-up to that post where they pull out data from that link:

> And then they have a table with concrete values for each director, on page 38. The median for 2019 is $428,298.

Re: Reddit Welcomes Michael Seibel to Board of Directors

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Post by nradov »

formercoder wrote: post #340
antihero wrote: post #312

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So if they have a meeting every 3 months, what is the rest of their time spent doing? Sounds like a pretty cushy job.

They are often named in lawsuits. The cushy $100k/yr can easily be eaten up by legal fees.

No they have D&O insurance for that. The Directors don't pay legal fees out of pocket.

Re: Reddit Welcomes Michael Seibel to Board of Directors

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Post by taneq »

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.

Amen to that! They're so incredibly pushy about the app that it's a red flag in and of itself.

Re: Reddit Welcomes Michael Seibel to Board of Directors

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Post by qppo »

baddox wrote: post #177
sushid wrote: post #92

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Moreover, if I relent and click "View on app" while on mobile, it directs me to the App Store instead of opening the app to the thread I was attempting to read. At least handoff correctly if you're going to force me to use your stupid app.

Me too. It’s fascinating how that level of incompetence can persist for so long. I can’t believe that someone who is in charge of their visitor numbers hasn’t realized that they are surely missing out on an utterly huge number of visits due to that broken flow.

Amazon does the same thing with kindle links on iOS. I'm not sure it's incompetence so much as a platform oddity

Re: Reddit Welcomes Michael Seibel to Board of Directors

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Post by blaser-waffle »

nathias wrote: post #304
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…

ah yes, come for the news, stay for the censorship

If you don't like it there is always Voat.

HN has a decent amount of curation, too. Been seeing a lot of flagged and deleted posts these days...

Re: Reddit Welcomes Michael Seibel to Board of Directors

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Post by blaser-waffle »

rmason wrote: post #145
_jal wrote: post #135

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I barely use Reddit anymore. The UI on mobile is intentional garbage and I do not want the bloody app. But the desktop UI is getting worse; navigation is ridiculous and the pages are so junked up that it is actively repellant. It is too bad. I used to actually enjoy browsing and (gasp) commenting sometimes. Now I tend to hit a single page via search and leave. Can't remember the last time I actually logged in.

Try https://old.reddit.com for a vastly superior experience.

If you don't plan on posting, https://np.reddit.com also works. The 'np' is for a 'no-post' version where you can't vote or reply.
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