Julian Assange AMA on Reddit • Hacker News Board

Re: Julian Assange AMA on Reddit

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Post by freefolk » 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…

Apparently Reddit is relevant enough to have gotten you to hijack the comment thread for a political story so you could post a critique.

You're bitter at something so you're lashing out. It will pass.

Re: Julian Assange AMA on Reddit

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Post by malka » Thu, Jun 19, 2014, 2:22 PM UTC

chunkstuntman wrote: post #10

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.

Agreed. For me the whole point of reddit is that there is a subreddit for (almost ?) every subject you can think of.

Re: Julian Assange AMA on Reddit

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Post by 01Michael10 » Thu, Jun 19, 2014, 2:27 PM UTC

I want to ask him if he is bitter at all that Edward Snowden is more popular now and he is yesterday's news. But I won't...

Re: Julian Assange AMA on Reddit

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Post by Rudism » Thu, Jun 19, 2014, 2:32 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 usually wait for the interesting AMAs to show up on /r/tabled before I even bother looking at them. Much cleaner way to go through them and avoid the clutter.

Re: Julian Assange AMA on Reddit

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Jun 19, 2014, 2:36 PM UTC

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Re: Julian Assange AMA on Reddit

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Post by steveklabnik » Thu, Jun 19, 2014, 2:40 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…

You do know Hacker News shadow bans users, has a list of certain domains that are outright banned, and has a moderation team that occasionally kills stories, right?

Re: Julian Assange AMA on Reddit

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Post by Kiro » Thu, Jun 19, 2014, 2:41 PM UTC

I can't find a single question about the rape accusations. Am I blind, are moderators removing them or are people simply not interested?

Re: Julian Assange AMA on Reddit

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Post by digitalengineer » Thu, Jun 19, 2014, 2:44 PM UTC

steveklabnik wrote: post #16

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…

You do know Hacker News shadow bans users, has a list of certain domains that are outright banned, and has a moderation team that occasionally kills stories, right?

Is the list of banned domains public? I'd love to know what is ban-worthy on HN.

Re: Julian Assange AMA on Reddit

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Post by doe88 » Thu, Jun 19, 2014, 2:44 PM UTC

01Michael10 wrote: post #13

I want to ask him if he is bitter at all that Edward Snowden is more popular now and he is yesterday's news. But I won't...

He replied a related question [1] and seems to be quite supportive of Ed Snowden.

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/28js8v/i_am_julian_ass...

Re: Julian Assange AMA on Reddit

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Post by steveklabnik » Thu, Jun 19, 2014, 2:45 PM UTC

digitalengineer wrote: post #18

steveklabnik wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You do know Hacker News shadow bans users, has a list of certain domains that are outright banned, and has a moderation team that occasionally kills stories, right?

Is the list of banned domains public? I'd love to know what is ban-worthy on HN.

This is as close as we've got: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=499044

As pg says at the beginning of the comment, if you want to know if a particular domain is banned, just submit something and see if it's dead immediately.

FWIW, this comment and my previous one aren't a complaint: I think that most of this is a good thing. I _do_ think the mods kill some important stories, and I think the flamewar filter is terrible, but I'm glad for a lot of it, and wish there was more.