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

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

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Post by quadrature »

spiralpolitik wrote: post #120
arprocter wrote: post #76

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Think it's a coincidence that now the legal case is pretty much over there are suddenly a lot of 'adjustments' being made?

More likely investors are getting restless and want to see some return. In these cases management feels it needs to have things under its control and starts removing power bases from lower down the org chart so that everything stays on message. AMA is Reddit's only viable asset so having it under control of someone who isn't part of the management clique is unthinkable. Usually these attempts fail and the company is…

Why is it unthinkable ?, you hire PR people to do PR.

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Post by davidgerard »

selimthegrim wrote: post #154
adventured wrote: post #107

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Peak Reddit was 2011-2014. The people running the 'business' just don't realize it yet. Three years from now, Reddit will be half as influential as it has been these past three years. A community like Reddit is incredibly challenging to keep balanced long-term. Services like it just tend to blow-up eventually. The upside is, innovation will probably come out of its meltdown, new types of services will bloom, and wipe…

I agree. If you don't believe this, ask yourself where is SomethingAwful now?

... alive and well? Much like Metafilter, and for the same reason.

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

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Post by yaeger »

tomasien wrote: post #117
minimaxir wrote: post #7

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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

Still, it is only symbolic. Not that internet points are really that important anyway but seeing as his last posts are already 4 days old, all this reactionary downvoting will do nothing to his overall "karma". After 2 days, a downvote will not reduce your karma. So yeah, all this does is show the rest that apparently there are a lot of upset people out there.

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

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Post by Aerance »

blhack wrote: post #33

It's kindof astonishing what is happening over at reddit right now. "The internet" has it's own culture, and the people running reddit right now (one of the places where this culture is the strongest, imo), seem to have no idea how to interface with it. It honestly feels like it got taken over by silicon valley middle management marketing types or something, and now they just can't seem to figure out why the users ke…

The Problem is that, as reddit grows as a company it has been starting to put more of it's corporate influence onto the community it is so famous for. Reddit has always been a play of internet culture and freedom and though some of these changes have been, arguably, good a lot of it has been bad with communication errors between the company and the community leading to the problems we are seeing now. Reddit Corporate is learning a lesson in not biting the hand that feeds it. For so long they thought that they were the hand but it seems that it was the other way around.

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Post by DanBC »

istvan__ wrote: post #395
DanBC wrote: post #385

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If you have evidence that people did not hire / promote you because you are white you should totally sue. Perhaps your recent experience has opened your eyes to the difficulties black people have had for very many years. It is hard to get evidence of discrimination; that makes it hard to bring and win a case; lack of won cases is used as evidence of a lack of discrimination. Edit: added promote

He did not mention hiring anywhere in his comment. Can you actually reply to him instead of giving words into his mouth?

Adding the single word promote makes the post entirely an on-topic reply to what he said - white men are not discriminated against "because diversity"; and if they are the exact same legal recourse used by protected classes is open to them.

But since you think I didn't answer their post: what do you think they were talking about?

Do you think that "promotion" is somehow not part of "recruitment and selection"?

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

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Post by [deleted] »

mtrpcic wrote: post #287
mintplant wrote: post #90

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Please don't lump this in with the anti-Pao brigade. Like her or not, the issue of admin-moderator relations goes back long before her tenure. I say this as a (currently inactive) moderator of a default subreddit.

Whichever side of the Pao debate you fall on, you have to admit that the CEO of a site that is of the size, scale, and simplicity of Reddit should understand the core functionality of the site.

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Post by dfischer »

adventured wrote: post #217
AUmrysh wrote: post #153

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What's really sad is that reddit and Alexis were, arguably, the most successful Y-Combinator startup, and now they've fallen by the wayside as cronyism and personal agendas take over. Alexis let this happen, though. Not that I blame him, I'd have taken the money too.

By far and away, Airbnb is the most successful Y-Combinator startup. It's not a close race between Reddit and Airbnb. After that is Dropbox and Stripe perhaps. I don't think Reddit ever quite stacked up to these types of companies in terms of potential. Reddit is a link-aggregator, the very definition of a poor business opportunity (they don't own anything, and hardly control anything on their own site). Airbnb is ca…

Heroku?

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Post by davidgerard »

pests wrote: post #232
omni wrote: post #174

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I have yet to even see what Voat looks like because every time there's a Reddit event and someone mentions it, Voat is completely unresponsive.

Voat runs a modified version of the reddit open source code.

No, it's a clone, written from scratch in C#.

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

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Post by steve-howard »

termain wrote: post #309
geofft wrote: post #274

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I wouldn't say I love Reddit, but I'm certainly an active user. But I'm not subscribed to any of the subreddits that were affected, and I wouldn't have noticed if it weren't for this thread. There are lots of little communities that work well, with their own things they value. (There was a particular thread over on /r/OrthodoxChristianity, now removed, that would have been hilarious if it wasn't sad: a member of the…

I'd suggest directed acyclic graph comments, too, so that a comment can reply to more than one other comment. Potentially super nice, but I haven't seen anyone implement them yet.

Though I'm sure HN's audience would appreciate it it would be quite hard to get a lot of traction when people think reddit is complicated as it is.
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