I’m Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. AMA
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Re: I’m Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. AMA
#2Whoa, that surprised me!
I hope people can get interesting information, Bill Gates III is seemly a interesting character.
Re: I’m Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. AMA
#3I wish Reddit implemented a more...un-arbitrary way of calculating upvotes. Gates currently has 6,211 net upvotes, with a total of 11,500 upvotes.
That's already almost half the net upvotes of what Obama got: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/z1c9z/i_am_barack_obam...
But Obama's IAMA got 239,221 upvotes total. Which means he got 225K downvotes...which I guess is feasible, but for all we know, that was just an arbitrary result Reddit's strange algorithm of adding downvotes to obscure the upvote count.
I guess it doesn't matter in the end, it just seems that upvotes should be a real reflection of how liked (or polarizing) a thread/discussion was.
Re: I’m Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. AMA
#4He should do an AMA here!
Re: I’m Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. AMA
#5It been an hour and still no response from Bill, Obama was much more prompt with the replies
Re: I’m Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. AMA
#6I wish Reddit implemented a more...un-arbitrary way of calculating upvotes. Gates currently has 6,211 net upvotes, with a total of 11,500 upvotes. That's already almost half the net upvotes of what Obama got: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/z1c9z/i_am_barack_obam... But Obama's IAMA got 239,221 upvotes total. Which means he got 225K downvotes...which I guess is feasible, but for all we know, that was just an ar…
"For all we know"? They explicitly state [0] that upvotes and downvotes are fuzzed, it really isn't a matter of some weird machination.
[0] http://www.reddit.com/wiki/faq#wiki_how_is_a_submission.27s_...
Re: I’m Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. AMA
#7It been an hour and still no response from Bill, Obama was much more prompt with the replies
I think it's smart, so the good question float top.
Re: I’m Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. AMA
#8It been an hour and still no response from Bill, Obama was much more prompt with the replies
The original post is from over an hour but answers should start now: "I’ll be answering your questions live, starting at 10:45 am PST"
Re: I’m Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. AMA
#9I wish Reddit implemented a more...un-arbitrary way of calculating upvotes. Gates currently has 6,211 net upvotes, with a total of 11,500 upvotes. That's already almost half the net upvotes of what Obama got: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/z1c9z/i_am_barack_obam... But Obama's IAMA got 239,221 upvotes total. Which means he got 225K downvotes...which I guess is feasible, but for all we know, that was just an ar…
That is a product of the anti-gaming filter. There are automatically generated extra upvotes and downvotes.
Re: I’m Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. AMA
#10He should do an AMA here!
..unfortunately it'd probably get flagged off the front page