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Re: A new team at Reddit

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Post by quaunaut »

hiou wrote: post #232
asaramis wrote: post #228

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Ellen Pao. Harvard Law, Harvard MBA, time at Cravath (very, very fancy law firm) and partner at Kleiner (which I imagine most of us know) is now to be the head of Reddit? I am a firm believer that most media out there is not extracting enough value from their audience, or "under-monetizing", to use a ridiculous term. However, Reddit truly is different. I simply can't imagine someone with Ellen's professional upbringi…

> Ellen Pao will be stepping up to be interim CEO > Alexis Ohanian, who cofounded reddit nine and a half years ago, is returning as full-time executive chairman (he will transition to a part-time partner role at Y Combinator) > There is a long history of founders returning to companies and doing great things. I wouldn't spend too much time worrying about Ellen Pao leading reddit in the long term. Also from today's re…

Alexis wants Pao as the permanent CEO, but the next few months are a testing ground for her.

Edit: Source: http://fortune.com/2014/11/13/reddits-new-ceo-may-not-be-int...

Re: A new team at Reddit

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Post by late2part »

ig1 wrote: post #207
skizm wrote: post #59

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> if it isn't broke don't fix it This is the kind of mentality more companies need. It is why craigslist is still running a site that looks like it is from 1999. The opposite thinking is why digg when down in flames.

Craigslist used to be... ...the largest real estate site in the world. ...the largest dating site in the world. ...one of the largest job sites in the world. It's now an also ran in everyone of those categories. They lost every single major market they were the dominant player in. This isn't Craiglist winning, it's Craiglist losing.

I don't share the same view you have. I believe CL is a significant player in each of the three categories you mention.

Re: A new team at Reddit

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Post by DannyBee »

clavalle wrote: post #277
jacquesm wrote: post #257

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Sounds like a nice bike commute. Especially with the weather there.

There's nothing like biking 10 miles in the cold fog along a freeway...

You have a really interesting definition of cold.

Apparently it is "you might have to wear a jacket".

Re: A new team at Reddit

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Post by bobsil1 »

smackfu wrote: post #72
heathwblack wrote: post #17

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we are asked to move to the Bay Area still, but timing is flexible per employee. That's been the case since before Yishan stepped down.

Of course, once everyone is on site, it's very dangerous to be the one employee left offsite.

Redshirt.

Re: A new team at Reddit

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Post by thrownaway2424 »

hugs wrote: post #284
Eric_WVGG wrote: post #270

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Honestly I loathe the place. Not for any of the reasons you just listed. (“scary”? SF??)

I was born in New York City, grew up in L.A., started a company in SF, and live in Chicago, but the only place I've ever been held up at gunpoint was in San Francisco at 4th and Mission.

You got stuck up in front of Denny's?

Re: A new team at Reddit

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Post by x0x0 »

strlen wrote: post #218
anon808 wrote: post #166

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Daly City is 9.7 miles from the reddit office, for all practical purposes it sounds like Yishan wanted to just move offices in the same city; the Daly City part doesn't seem like it's important. Or am I missing something?

I think the conflict is more cultural than people realize: an office in Daly City is tremendously easier to reach and if you're coming from South Bay -- essentially you exit the freeway and park. On the other hand, getting to a point in SF from the freeway and parking usually takes at least 30 minutes (in addition to the 30+50 minute drive from the starting point in the South Bay or Peninsula). SOMA area is reachable…

Plus many folks in sf don't have cars, prefer not to drive, and want to avoid paying $1k/mo for a car (parking in mission is often $350/mo; insurance at $60; gas + note).

Re: A new team at Reddit

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Post by orbitur »

dublinben wrote: post #244
orbitur wrote: post #145

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Each subreddit needs a good set of mods, especially when there are thousands of subscribers. Once a subreddit hits some magic number, it devolves into a stream of image links to "hey I made a cake/painting/object with [subject of subreddit] on it". Mods can very easily guide users toward discussion. r/atheism infamously banned images altogether, and aside from the "REVOLT I WANT MEMES IN MY R/ATHEISM" posts, people a…

The challenge is that what we think of as high quality content is not what Reddit Inc. has seen leading the growth. Images and fluffy content are easier to consume, and therefore more profitable for the site.

Absolutely. And the popular subreddits are already sort of pre-disposed to fluffy content due to their intended subject matter. I'm not saying the mods of r/funny should do anything, except maybe remove duplicate posts on the same day/week that content was posted.

But there are some subreddits that used to be good conversation hubs, that simply got overrun with trash because the moderators weren't paying attention, or were too scared to set up and enforce rules.

Re: A new team at Reddit

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Post by x0x0 »

jacquesm wrote: post #257
anon808 wrote: post #166

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Daly City is 9.7 miles from the reddit office, for all practical purposes it sounds like Yishan wanted to just move offices in the same city; the Daly City part doesn't seem like it's important. Or am I missing something?

Sounds like a nice bike commute. Especially with the weather there.

you haven't met the drivers out here. They're bad, there mostly aren't physically separate bike lanes, and you often don't even get a ticket for killing a bicyclist. It's not worth it.

edit: Also -- sample size of 13 -- 70+% of the people I know who bike commute daily have been hospitalized. I also know someone who did 6 months in a nursing home after some bitch ran a red light, hit him, and cracked his pelvis; he won multiple surgeries and the inability to stand up for months.

Re: A new team at Reddit

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Post by x0x0 »

zzleeper wrote: post #193
sama wrote: post #85

I realize that this sounds non-credible (and it's certainly one of the craziest professional things I've ever been a part of), but it's actually what happened. Yishan wanted to move the office from SF to Daly City. The board pushed back but said we'd agree to it with certain data (we wanted Yishan to figure out how many employees would stay with the company through the move, get a comparison to other market rents, et…

Silly question, but why Daly City?

I'd bet Yishan lives in the peninsula or south bay and didn't like his hour-plus commute into sf. Public records say Palo Alto, so yes -- he wanted a much better commute.

They'd lose a ton of sf employees though; it's a shit commute for them.

Re: A new team at Reddit

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Post by freshhawk »

DannyBee wrote: post #303
clavalle wrote: post #277

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There's nothing like biking 10 miles in the cold fog along a freeway...

You have a really interesting definition of cold. Apparently it is "you might have to wear a jacket".

The standard California definition.
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