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I might be mistaken but Conde Nast is a privately owned company.
You can still have a vesting period for shares in a private company. 4 years is a normal amount of time to be fully vested.
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Ads are one thing. Manipulating user content for profit is seedy
How is this manipulating user content?
How is it NOT?
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Jedberg was not on the founding team of Reddit. The founding team of reddit was Steve Huffman (spez) and Alexis Ohanian (kn0thing). Jedberg was their first hire after acquisition, though they'd acquired two other team members via merger (Chris Slowe and Aaron Swartz) prior to that.
Thanks for clarifying that. By the time I got to it, it was already fixed. :)
There is something sounding very wrong about that: the work of a sysadmin that is of value for a big site should never reach the point to be so stressful that you have to wake up on alerts too many times. It may happen 4 or 5 days every year maybe, if it is worse than that then there is something wrong. It is not impossible that jedberg is actually leaving because that kind of condition is not good in the long time.…
From someone that spent years sysadmining very high traffic systems: Well done sir. Well done. Been using Reddit since launch. Somewhat nervous that the new people running Reddit will get overrun by the corporate overlords now that they see the "hockey stick" traffic charts. I can see some bean counter doing the math: Slap 4 teeth whitening ads on every page = 4 ad impressions * 1.2 billion page views = 4.8 billion a…
I've said it before, so I apologize for repeating myself, but it shocks me (shocks!) that reddit doesn't append affiliate IDs to all of the outbound links to amazon that are generated. I've probably made well over $100 in purchases just in the last few months via links I've seen on reddit. ("Can you recommend a good book on welding/bicycles/iOS dev/etc.") Hopefully they don't do what you're suggesting, because I thin…
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I've said it before, so I apologize for repeating myself, but it shocks me (shocks!) that reddit doesn't append affiliate IDs to all of the outbound links to amazon that are generated. I've probably made well over $100 in purchases just in the last few months via links I've seen on reddit. ("Can you recommend a good book on welding/bicycles/iOS dev/etc.") Hopefully they don't do what you're suggesting, because I thin…
One of the problems with Reddit is that the vast majority of users are anti-ads and anti-corporation making any form of commercialism (even if it means more employees or a better site) nearly impossible.
IMHO, this is a major, major loss for reddit. Jedberg, I know you read HN -- you were a hugely important part of that community; any time there was about to be a user revolt, it seemed like a red-lettered Jedberg would pop up in the thread to calm everybody down. I don't think you were technically a community manager (were you?) but you did a damn good job at it anyway.
Thank you. That really means a lot to me.
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How is this manipulating user content?
What are you talking about? Altering the link the user submits isn't manipulating user content? Especially when they incentivize sponsored ads from users that use affiliate links specifically? How is it NOT?
Reddit can't live off nothing forever, they are going to have to find a way to monetize in line with corporate overlord expectations for a site of its traffic level or eventually be replaced by drones.
Wow, I just watched him give a presentation on reddit architecture at Velocity yesterday. Shame to see him go.
And let me tell you how awkward that was knowing that I was going to post this today! And not being able to say anything.
From someone that spent years sysadmining very high traffic systems: Well done sir. Well done. Been using Reddit since launch. Somewhat nervous that the new people running Reddit will get overrun by the corporate overlords now that they see the "hockey stick" traffic charts. I can see some bean counter doing the math: Slap 4 teeth whitening ads on every page = 4 ad impressions * 1.2 billion page views = 4.8 billion a…
You high. They'd be extremely lucky to get $0.03 eCPM.