How much does it cost openai to pay Reddit to shutdown access to the worlds most comprehensive moderated conversational dataset?
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#32The Reddit IPO is shaping up to be the biggest pump and dump scam in recent history. The question is, how bad will the liquidity be when the sell side of the order book vastly exceeds the buy side.
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#33Couldn't the Reddit software engineers manually force subreddits to become public at any time? Why don't they do that?
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#34I dislike that I have to make an effort to entertain myself during downtimes, but this is an excellent exercise for a future where reddit execs might just have made the site unusable for me.
I also have to fight the urge of not opening it, but I don't think I plan on coming back at this point. This made me realize that I was addicted to doomscrolling and constant brainless checking on my favorite subreddits. I genuinely found myself more productive than ever since I uninstalled Apollo when blackout started.
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#35Honest question since I don't really know how reddit works: Why can't reddit just forcefully re-open the subs that have been taken private? Mods are using powers given to them by the platform and I don't get why they are not being stripped of (some of) those powers.
They can be forcefully re-opened at any time. Based on the internal memo, they don't appear to be taking this seriously enough to warrant that kind of action.
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#36Honest question since I don't really know how reddit works: Why can't reddit just forcefully re-open the subs that have been taken private? Mods are using powers given to them by the platform and I don't get why they are not being stripped of (some of) those powers.
They can, they just don't think it'll be necessary.
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#371. I don't get the protests.. at this point Reddit should just die for the attempt, just leave ship.
2. At the same time not getting the execs. Are they not seeing the damage done right now? Why not give in, appease protesters, and go more to a boiling frog approach? (IPO money grab desire must be very real?)
3. Because of 2, it is 1 anyway.
I mean two things will happen...either Reddit dies quickly, or more likely it dies a slow Sarlacc enshittification death. What will not happen is that it gives just in and everything will be back to normal, too much destroyed already.
Protest against your governments, not capitalists (except by just leaving)!
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#38Honest question since I don't really know how reddit works: Why can't reddit just forcefully re-open the subs that have been taken private? Mods are using powers given to them by the platform and I don't get why they are not being stripped of (some of) those powers.
Taking an authoritarian approach might just cause even more noise for even longer. I think Huffman would like a war of attrition instead. Eventually mods will feel powerless because the execs won’t budge, and denying the community access to the subreddit will cause more problems than it appears to solve.
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#39It’s impressive how their CEO keeps shooting himself in the foot on this one, he could compromise a bit by at least expanding the deadline on the pricing changes, but instead he decides to provoke and double down. The leaked internal memo, which is obvious that would leak (after all it is a 2,000 person company) is a clear provocation: > We do anticipate many of them will come back by Wednesday, as many have said as…
What is “our teams are on it” in this context? PR or media influencing? What could teams mean here and what do they do?
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yea, definitely more of a mod revolt than a user revolt I feel like a lot of users have had it up to here with mod abuse too, maybe smaller subreddits with less automation would be preferable to mega reddits with bots that auto-ban you for being new to the community
Polls were held in many subreddits; if a subreddit is the community - which it is - then the will of the participants is the will of the community and those who communicate it.
I think that such polls tend to vastly over-represent the small subsets of those communities who care enough about the issue to vote. Voting is very rare in subreddits so I imagine that probably most users of those subreddits did not even realize that the votes were happening. And knowing how authoritarian Reddit mods usually are, I doubt very much that for the most part they would not have done whatever they wanted to do even if the votes had gone against them. The voting is just a fig leaf.