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What a strange format. I'm not a regular Reddit visitor so maybe I just don't "get it" but it seems like the top level questions for Gates are pretty intelligent, all questions I'd like to ask him (well, almost all--I don't get the condom one), and the responses to those questions are mostly snide, petty, and stupid.
That's like the elevator pitch for Reddit comments. It really just depends on what you find humorous I guess.
There are always thousands of questions by the time you get there. Do his assistants check everyone of them and summarize?
I've done an AMA that was pretty popular, it's not that hard to keep up actually. You start with the top voted comment, reply, go to the next, etc. Then you reload the page and do it again. It helps if you have gold because then you can highlight the stuff that is new since you last loaded the page, which helps you find the questions faster. The trick for the user is to have a good enough question to get it voted to…
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There are always thousands of questions by the time you get there. Do his assistants check everyone of them and summarize?
I've done an AMA that was pretty popular, it's not that hard to keep up actually. You start with the top voted comment, reply, go to the next, etc. Then you reload the page and do it again. It helps if you have gold because then you can highlight the stuff that is new since you last loaded the page, which helps you find the questions faster. The trick for the user is to have a good enough question to get it voted to…
What a strange format. I'm not a regular Reddit visitor so maybe I just don't "get it" but it seems like the top level questions for Gates are pretty intelligent, all questions I'd like to ask him (well, almost all--I don't get the condom one), and the responses to those questions are mostly snide, petty, and stupid.
Reddit is a large community, and the average post quality reflects that.
What a strange format. I'm not a regular Reddit visitor so maybe I just don't "get it" but it seems like the top level questions for Gates are pretty intelligent, all questions I'd like to ask him (well, almost all--I don't get the condom one), and the responses to those questions are mostly snide, petty, and stupid.
>> "snide, petty, and stupid" That's like the elevator pitch for Reddit comments. It really just depends on what you find humorous I guess.
Is this his library in the background? http://i.imgur.com/iqvPs7N.jpg edit: Apparently so, and here's his reading recommendations from 2013 (w/ same library in background): http://www.thegatesnotes.com/Personal/Best-Books-2013 and more: http://www.thegatesnotes.com/Books <- lots of reviews here
Am I the only one who noticed the Weather for dummies? I wonder why he was interested on it.
What a strange format. I'm not a regular Reddit visitor so maybe I just don't "get it" but it seems like the top level questions for Gates are pretty intelligent, all questions I'd like to ask him (well, almost all--I don't get the condom one), and the responses to those questions are mostly snide, petty, and stupid.
[1] - http://www.grandchallenges.org/Explorations/Topics/Pages/Nex...
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Am I the only one who noticed the Weather for dummies? I wonder why he was interested on it.
Weather control, obviously.