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Re: A new team at Reddit

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Post by 001sky »

seestheday wrote: post #370
cookiecaper wrote: post #362

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As someone completely unaffiliated with San Francisco, all of this honestly just makes the employees sound like primadonnas. While it may be cool to be "steps away" from that stuff you listed (and I doubt you're being fair to Daly City), it certainly shouldn't make or break a job that you're otherwise happy with. I understand the argument about exacerbating commutes (even though it sounds crazy for a short-distance m…

I'm shocked that you value your free time so low. Let's do the math. There are 24 hours in a day. You should be sleeping for ~8 of those leaving 16. Assuming you are supposed to be at the office for 8 hours (pipe dream, but let's just go for it) that leaves 8 hours of time for other stuff. If you previously had a great 15-30 minute commute then you would have 7 hours of free time to work on side projects and do thing…

SF has The bay area has something like 15 million people.

Do the math.

One either has a shitty rent/house payment or a shitty commute.

Re: A new team at Reddit

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Post by shostack »

theelfismike wrote: post #343
shostack wrote: post #280

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"This was the sole reason for Yishan's resignation, as I know it." Thanks for the response. I think the above quote is the salient point here though. Everything you said may be accurate, but without actually hearing Yishan's side, I don't think it is realistic to expect everyone to take this at face value, despite Sam and Reddit's reputations. Even if Yishan were to make a statement, I think there would still be skep…

Said statement: http://www.quora.com/Why-did-Yishan-Wong-resign-as-Reddit-CE...

Thanks for sharing that. I actually follow Yishan on Quora and hadn't seen that pop up.

Definitely helpful to get some context. I'd like to believe that everyone is being truthful here, but I guess there will always be a nagging doubt that we are not getting the full story due to the nature of the situation. I guess that brings up the more philosophical question of what duty a company has to make its dirty laundry public to its users.

Re: A new team at Reddit

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Post by dragonwriter »

001sky wrote: post #371
seestheday wrote: post #370

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm shocked that you value your free time so low. Let's do the math. There are 24 hours in a day. You should be sleeping for ~8 of those leaving 16. Assuming you are supposed to be at the office for 8 hours (pipe dream, but let's just go for it) that leaves 8 hours of time for other stuff. If you previously had a great 15-30 minute commute then you would have 7 hours of free time to work on side projects and do thing…

SF has The bay area has something like 15 million people. Do the math. One either has a shitty rent/house payment or a shitty commute.

> SF has 2013 US Census estimate is 837,442, which is considerably more than 500,000. [1]

> The bay area has something like 15 million people.

The 9-county Bay Area has approximately 7.1 million people as of 2010. [2]

[1] http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/06/06075.html

[2] http://www.bayareacensus.ca.gov/bayarea.htm

Re: A new team at Reddit

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Post by 001sky »

dragonwriter wrote: post #373
001sky wrote: post #371

Earlier quoted context omitted.

SF has The bay area has something like 15 million people. Do the math. One either has a shitty rent/house payment or a shitty commute.

> SF has 2013 US Census estimate is 837,442, which is considerably more than 500,000. [1] > The bay area has something like 15 million people. The 9-county Bay Area has approximately 7.1 million people as of 2010. [2] [1] http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/06/06075.html [2] http://www.bayareacensus.ca.gov/bayarea.htm

Thanks! So lets say there is ~8-9x in the metro for every 1x in the city.

NYC by comparison has ~2.5x in the metro for every 1x in the City.[1]

__________

[1] 19.9 million vs 8.4 million.

Re: A new team at Reddit

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Post by ryanmerket »

cookiecaper wrote: post #364
gojomo wrote: post #134

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Generally such a resignation is about being-overruled (board no-confidence), rather than just the particulars of one decision. With ~sama's revelation that Wong preferred a Daly City HQ, the battle-lines could have been: Pro-Daly-City: "more space, cheaper, less-cool, longer-runway, more employees who've self-selected for willingness to do Reddit muckwork vs. glamorous SoMa networking, outsider perspective" Pro-SF: "…

It seems to me that Daly City would be more sensible and/or comforting for the people that are being forced to relocate from locales such as Salt Lake City. That's something that hasn't really been brought up in this thread; maybe it was seen as a compromise for the people that are being forced to relocate. And maybe the board was opposed because they wanted to use the opportunity to cull the "wrong type" of employee…

Many of the SLC employees are moving to the East Bay.

Re: A new team at Reddit

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Post by milesf »

yazaddaruvala wrote: post #358
milesf wrote: post #355

Could the new team please review and censor some of the unquestionably evil subreddits? (ie: brutalizing women, dead babies, animal sex, etc). There's just no reason whatsoever such places ought to exist. Out of conscience, I chose to stop reading Reddit for allowing such subs to exist. I am not asking others to do the same or to adopt my beliefs, but I say this because I really enjoyed being a redditor. I'd like to…

Not trying to be rude or anything, but I feel like you should also have a problem with the internet. There are many different websites, I'm sure, a lot for things that are pure evil. I'm actually very curious, why you only choose to boycott Reddit? What's your justification for still using the internet?

Roads connect me to the entire world, just like the Internet. When I arrive at a destination, it is a separate dwelling than all the other dwellings.

Make sense?

Re: A new team at Reddit

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Post by flomo »

ig1 wrote: post #357
late2part wrote: post #302

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

CL does around 300M revenue across all categories, that's less than what the larger players in each individual category makes.

By that logic, Craigslist was probably never the largest in those categories. Newspaper classifieds and old job sites like Monster and etc. got the revenue. CL's strategy was always to get the rest of it.

Re: A new team at Reddit

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Post by yazaddaruvala »

milesf wrote: post #376
yazaddaruvala wrote: post #358

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not trying to be rude or anything, but I feel like you should also have a problem with the internet. There are many different websites, I'm sure, a lot for things that are pure evil. I'm actually very curious, why you only choose to boycott Reddit? What's your justification for still using the internet?

Roads connect me to the entire world, just like the Internet. When I arrive at a destination, it is a separate dwelling than all the other dwellings. Make sense?

I suppose a little.

Actually, I modified the analogy to "arrive at a city". I feel like Reddit is more like a city than a single dwelling. And I can understand continuing to use roads while avoiding certain cities.

I still don't agree with your original point, and maybe the analogy is biased in your favor (it is your justification after all, so I cant really counter), but yeah, fair enough, I like your justification. Thanks for entertaining my curiosity.

Re: A new team at Reddit

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Post by Sealy »

darkstar999 wrote: post #126
Sealy wrote: post #8

Why did he write: "It’s interesting to note that during my very brief tenure, reddit added more users than Hacker News has in total." Was that a dig at Hacker News?

It would be interesting to see a comparison to /r/startups

I'll go check it out, are there any other similar subreddits the community could suggest I should check out? I already am a follower of /r/bitcoin and /r/bitcoinmarkets for reasons you can probably guess!
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