Julian Assange AMA on Reddit

pestaa wrote: post #5

Many Redditors seem to lack patience. Calling it the worst AMA because there are not many answers after 20 minutes is really impolite. Sometimes I need more time just to write a two sentence email reply. Give Julian the time he needs.

There are many inherent expectations of anyone who offers to participate in an AMA. Some who agree to participate do not understand or fully understand what they are walking into, then there are those who think they are being gracious just by participating.

Hence the reactions you see. A few returning AMA guest do become quite adept at knowing what is safe to answer and how to filter chaff

Re: Julian Assange AMA on Reddit

#8

Post by 4lph4_D4wg » Thu, Jun 19, 2014, 2:11 PM UTC

Reddit is an awful place full of awful rules and awful people and plenty of censorship and manipulation of topics and comments , manipulated by real people and also bots they have created to monitor conversations.

They shadow ban topics and comments to create an illusion of fair conversation.

They have the collective ego of being relevant but are nowhere near the level of facebook or twitter or instagram. Or even Yahoo news.

They are just an annoying little site that keeps popping up like that poop that just won't flush , that's reddit , the shit that won't flush , reddit is about as relevant as myspace.

AMA seems to be the last grasp that reddit has , and why do you need reddit for that ?

Re: Julian Assange AMA on Reddit

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Post by gedrap » Thu, Jun 19, 2014, 2:14 PM UTC

pestaa wrote: post #5

Many Redditors seem to lack patience. Calling it the worst AMA because there are not many answers after 20 minutes is really impolite. Sometimes I need more time just to write a two sentence email reply. Give Julian the time he needs.

I think it's smart to wait a bit before replying, because there are more comments posted every minute than you can possibly read. So just let the up/down votes filter out the rubbish.

Re: Julian Assange AMA on Reddit

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Post by chunkstuntman » Thu, Jun 19, 2014, 2:16 PM UTC

4lph4_D4wg wrote: post #8

Reddit is an awful place full of awful rules and awful people and plenty of censorship and manipulation of topics and comments , manipulated by real people and also bots they have created to monitor conversations. They shadow ban topics and comments to create an illusion of fair conversation. They have the collective ego of being relevant but are nowhere near the level of facebook or twitter or instagram. Or even Yah…

Reddit is wonderful for fostering fringe communities and inspiring others to become a part of a subculture, whatever it might be. If you're comparing it to fb, tw, or ig, you've already missed the point of its existence.