Read only mode, WTF... I was wondering why reddit was so sloooow today.
AMA with Barack Obama
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Re: AMA with Barack Obama
#142For those who can't get access to the site, here are his answers so far. I hope you can deduce the questions, jeopardy style: I am Barack Obama, President of the United States -- AMA by PresidentObamain IAmA [+]PresidentObama[S] 4 points5 points6 points 2 minutes ago (0 children) [–]PresidentObama[S] 4 points5 points6 points 2 minutes ago It's hard - truthfully the main thing other than work is just making sure that…
>By the way, if you want to know what I think about this whole reddit experience - NOT BAD!
This is the end. Even the President of the United States (assuming it's actually him) is referencing memes.
Re: AMA with Barack Obama
#143Earlier quoted context omitted.
The President of United States is doing a Reddit AMA and all you can do is predict disappointment ? Really? Why bother? If you're wrong, your comment will seem too negative and cynical (which it is). If you're right, well, that'd be disappointing, right? Comments like yours make me want to rename this site Hater News.
Just want to chime in, it looks like Obama is heading out[1] after answering only ten questions. I think it's fair to call that disappointing when the thread had more than 12,000 comments. [1] http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/z1c9z/i_am_barack_obam...
Quite possible he simply wasn't able to access the site like everyone else!
Re: AMA with Barack Obama
#144For those who can't get access to the site, here are his answers so far. I hope you can deduce the questions, jeopardy style: I am Barack Obama, President of the United States -- AMA by PresidentObamain IAmA [+]PresidentObama[S] 4 points5 points6 points 2 minutes ago (0 children) [–]PresidentObama[S] 4 points5 points6 points 2 minutes ago It's hard - truthfully the main thing other than work is just making sure that…
Pretty weak, typical round-about answers that you'd expect from any politician. Not what AMA has come to expect, and what's the proof that it's actually Obama writing the answers and not some intern or campaign staffer?
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#145It looks like the Obama AMA has really caused some serious fires in reddit's backend infrastructure. The site's been down for the last 10 minutes. I would've thought that they'd have brought in some additional computing power for such an event, should've been easy for them considering they have a cloud deployment. Maybe this gives them greater reason to hire more engineers. I found it impressive that they served bill…
Stupid question: is the because reddits backend is in python? I often hear that PHP + varnish is only limited by the size of the pipe. Can this scale on cloud platforms?
reddit's backend could be written in assembly hand-tuned by God Himself, and having half the world hit it at once would still cause bottlenecks at the database.
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#146I'm looking at the sort rank of questions on reddit and they don't exactly feel right. I can't pin point it except to say that a question with 59 upvotes posted 58 minutes ago is ranking higher than a question with 620 upvotes posted 60 minutes ago. Do reddit moderators step in during these situations to supervote questions?
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#147Does this seem like it could be fake to anyone else? Could someone have simply hacked his twitter?
He only posted it on the @BarackObama twitter. Not any of the other ones related to his campaing. Reddit didn't advertise this AT ALL. Most big celebrity AMAs are known for days. The photo of him is just him sitting in front of a laptop. There's no proof at all that he's doing an AMA.
Reddit is going down HARD. I doubt the Obama campaign spontaneously decided to do this. Anyone savvy enough to suggest an AMA should know that it would likely take down the site and they'd probably talk to Reddit first.
His answers seem like answers the president would give though (but he did reference his NOT BAD meme, which seems too cool to be true). If you were impersonating the president, it would seem like you would try to wreak some havoc.
Anyone else feel like this?
Re: AMA with Barack Obama
#148For those who can't get access to the site, here are his answers so far. I hope you can deduce the questions, jeopardy style: I am Barack Obama, President of the United States -- AMA by PresidentObamain IAmA [+]PresidentObama[S] 4 points5 points6 points 2 minutes ago (0 children) [–]PresidentObama[S] 4 points5 points6 points 2 minutes ago It's hard - truthfully the main thing other than work is just making sure that…
Here's a shitty (no CSS) mirror of the actual AMA page: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3235979/I%20am%20Barack%20Obama%2C%2...
Re: AMA with Barack Obama
#149For those who can't get access to the site, here are his answers so far. I hope you can deduce the questions, jeopardy style: I am Barack Obama, President of the United States -- AMA by PresidentObamain IAmA [+]PresidentObama[S] 4 points5 points6 points 2 minutes ago (0 children) [–]PresidentObama[S] 4 points5 points6 points 2 minutes ago It's hard - truthfully the main thing other than work is just making sure that…
>By the way, if you want to know what I think about this whole reddit experience - NOT BAD! This is the end. Even the President of the United States (assuming it's actually him) is referencing memes.
He was the inspiration/source for that particular meme and since this is reddit it seems to me it's fitting.
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#150Can't wait for the top post to be another asinine "comment phrased as a question" about legalising marijuana! Joking aside, I predict disappointment. Reddit users will want hard-hitting answers, Obama will definitely not give them (already the internet freedom question has been fluffy-answered). In all honestly, no-one should expect anything else- the POTUS is not going to unveil new thoughts and strategies through R…
I actually get really sick of people like you more than the people that would like our President to stop avoiding that question.
Give me a break. This comment was one step away from "fucking stoners". It's insulting and inappropriate regardless.
This is a typical HN troll post on reddit anyway. If you think the "jailbait" scandal defined reddit at any point, you obviously don't know what the hell you're talking about.