Front Page Subreddits Go Private in Response to Firing of Reddit Admin

Post by astrowilliam » Fri, Jul 03, 2015, 6:41 AM UTC

adventured wrote: post #267

astrowilliam wrote: post #177

This is the exact reason why we started PushdUp. As a long time reddit user I was getting sick of the drama that was happening and decided to take it upon myself to create something different. We are still in VERY early alpha so there are bound to be some bugs. Come join the revolution. http://www.pushdup.com , feedback is welcome and encouraged.

Remove the "privacy" and "about" links in the top left. That's among your most valuable real-estate. 99.x% of your users will never read either page, not under any scenario. Move them somewhere else reasonable. You might say: well, but it's important to explain our culture on the about page; to explain what we're all about. To that I say: no it's not, your users are not going to partake in, or come to understand, you…

Post by redthrowaway » Fri, Jul 03, 2015, 6:44 AM UTC

geofft wrote: post #347

Malician wrote: post #273

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I think you're trying to make a sarcastic point here (unless I'm mistaken,) but that's probably quite true as written. Even /r/askscience supports this move [1]. It is one of the most heavily moderated subreddits on the site, with professional staff. These aren't rabblerousers, they are very hard-working volunteers who are fed up with the administration. [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/3by2nk/a_messa…

The comment I replied to was trying to say that this isn't about the firing, and is about the process of limiting free speech and restricting subs in a non-transparent manner. I see none of that in the /r/askscience post. It seems to me that there are two major, unrelated tensions in Reddit at the moment: 1. Certain people want Reddit to be a haven for free speech, including speech that coordinates abusive actions. T…

Post by DanBC » Fri, Jul 03, 2015, 6:46 AM UTC

zobzu wrote: post #119

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http://time.com/3904431/ellen-pao-appeal-sexism-case/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddy_Fletcher

I work in the silicon valley and I got quite a few promotion offers denied because I'm a white male and that's not promoting diversity. Heck, I didn't even mind it so much as long as the other candidates are +- qualified. But by that logic, I guess I should sue! ;-) Oh wait...

Post by rodgerd » Fri, Jul 03, 2015, 6:52 AM UTC

tomasien wrote: post #117

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Alexis is not helping matters either: https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/3bwgjf/riam...

Interesting fact w/r/t how pissed people are at him on Reddit: people have gone back and downvoted every single one of his comments now, to the point that several pages back his comments (typically which get upvoted like crazy) are in the negatives. https://www.reddit.com/user/kn0thing?count=25&after=t1_cslum... This seems over blown

Post by geofft » Fri, Jul 03, 2015, 6:53 AM UTC

jammi wrote: post #374

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Maybe this is a stupid question, but I'm not sure I see how that relates to the departure of a Reddit employee facilitating that AMA. He answered the question, right? Whether the answer is terrible maybe impacts what you think of him , but not what you think of the person making the AMA happen (either as a person or as an employee), right? Or did he not actually answer the question, and did someone else answer in his…

He probably refretted the answer, because it's like he didn't even read the question before answering with some boilerplate answer, which is probably why the question got rated so high after the answer. I do. But I was jailed in 1960. For trying to use a public library. And that caused more good than harm. I marched to end segregation. The day Dr. King spoke on Washington, in 1963, I was there for that speech. That d…