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Why We Shut Down Reddit’s ‘Ask Me Anything’ Forum

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Re: Why We Shut Down Reddit’s ‘Ask Me Anything’ Forum

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Post by dguaraglia »

luso_brazilian wrote: post #116
steve-howard wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Popcorn" as a metaphor for drama is a daily in-joke at SubredditDrama, where that comment was posted. What kn0thing didn't count on was that a lot of readers had never been there before and instead took it at face value.

I believe it was the opposite, people got outraged because they got the exact meaning of the joke. People were expressing loud and clear their grievances and one admin response was in the lines of "we know about it, let's do nothing and watch the drama unfold, it will die down".

And, to be fair, it did die down. Even though there's still some aftershocks to the initial revolution, reddit seems to be mostly back to normal now.

Re: Why We Shut Down Reddit’s ‘Ask Me Anything’ Forum

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Post by evan_ »

zxcvcxz wrote: post #134
slg wrote: post #132

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I don't expect my boss to dive into my commit logs to figure out what I am doing. I instead tell him.

Do you tell your boss about the code you don't commit?

The code you don't commit is guaranteed to be bug-free, something you can't say about the code you do commit.

Re: Why We Shut Down Reddit’s ‘Ask Me Anything’ Forum

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Post by saboot »

derptron wrote: post #173
amyjess wrote: post #40

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No, the shutdown of /r/iama was necessary so the moderators could regroup and figure out how to do their scheduling and coördination from now on. The shutdowns of the other subreddits were petulant moves by power mods to treat their users as pawns and hockey pucks. They were punishing their users because they were in a power struggle with the admins. That's wrong . And your claims of censorship are, quite frankly, di…

So you're a fat SJW that advocates censorship of entire subs because of a few rule breakers. Gotcha. Hope you realize that there are many more "hate" subs that continue to operate unabated. I am picturing you frothing at the mouth while messaging admins begging any remaining subs that you disagree with to be banned. That's what you do, right? Picking and choosing what subs to censor is the disturbing part here. And n…

| So you're a fat SJW

Really? That's the level of thinking that those who claim censorship on reddit are operating on?

It wasn't about views people disagree with (hence why the chimpire subreddits are still active). FPH actively engaged in harassment of individuals by both subscribers and moderators. And speaking of censorship the FPH mods would ban any "sympathetic views" of ridiculed individuals.

Re: Why We Shut Down Reddit’s ‘Ask Me Anything’ Forum

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Post by pbreit »

robrenaud wrote: post #26

How hard would it be to fork reddit AMA on a third party site? I'd imagine if you got Victoria on board, a lot of the mods/community would follow. Certainly some custom support for the AMA would be nice, like getting cleanly summarized final outputs and highlighting direct conversation with the askee, and making it easy to find highly upvoted non-answered questions.

Nearly impossible.

Re: Why We Shut Down Reddit’s ‘Ask Me Anything’ Forum

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Post by pbreit »

robrenaud wrote: post #26

How hard would it be to fork reddit AMA on a third party site? I'd imagine if you got Victoria on board, a lot of the mods/community would follow. Certainly some custom support for the AMA would be nice, like getting cleanly summarized final outputs and highlighting direct conversation with the askee, and making it easy to find highly upvoted non-answered questions.

Nearly impossible. The code is the easiest part by far. Much, much harder is getting viewers and then subjects.

Re: Why We Shut Down Reddit’s ‘Ask Me Anything’ Forum

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Post by hullo »

twoodfin wrote: post #64
VLM wrote: post #33

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"but what else explains her relative silence?" Non-disparagement clauses as part of a cash settlement are a thing. This proves nothing but does fit the evidence.

Yeah, but that doesn't explain the abruptness, or reddit's continuing silence. If it was a disagreement over policy or direction, it doesn't seem worth the PR hit not to try to explain it. On the other hand kn0thing's "popcorn" comment suggests it couldn't have been that embarrassing.

management explaining firings hasn't gone well for them in the past

https://www.quora.com/Should-Reddit-CEO-Yishan-Wong-regret-h...

Re: Why We Shut Down Reddit’s ‘Ask Me Anything’ Forum

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Post by pbreit »

robrenaud wrote: post #26

How hard would it be to fork reddit AMA on a third party site? I'd imagine if you got Victoria on board, a lot of the mods/community would follow. Certainly some custom support for the AMA would be nice, like getting cleanly summarized final outputs and highlighting direct conversation with the askee, and making it easy to find highly upvoted non-answered questions.

Nearly impossible. The code is trivial. Getting the viewers and subjects is the hard part.

Re: Why We Shut Down Reddit’s ‘Ask Me Anything’ Forum

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Post by nilkn »

munificent wrote: post #121
slg wrote: post #111

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Devils advocate, that is partly Victoria's fault. If your managers don't know what you do all day, I don't think it is surprising that you are fired. Yes, it is a sign off bad management, but it is also a sign off an employee not communicating up to management. EDIT: The downvotes seem to indicate I wasn't clear. I'm not saying the Reddit management team thought Victoria wasn't doing any work. However, it was clear t…

> If your managers don't know what you do all day If your managers can't tell what you do all day when they merely need to go to reddit.com/r/IamA and see dozens of upvoted posts from celebrities whose top comment says, "Victoria is here helping me...", then I don't think you can really blame her for that.

I've read reddit on and off for years and have never even noticed that.

Re: Why We Shut Down Reddit’s ‘Ask Me Anything’ Forum

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Post by pvg »

vonmoltke wrote: post #133
danso wrote: post #90

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> There is no information that can make the way the out of town guest was treated acceptable. Sorry, but is this guest the Queen of England or the Pope? Did the mods pay for his/her way to New York? As the GP said, this is an overreaction -- the mods act as if insulting one celebrity means that IAMA, a subreddit that was originally populated by regular reddit users, has been inconvertibly sullied. Or that they, the m…

> Sorry, but is this guest the Queen of England or the Pope? Irrelevant. You make a commitment to someone, you keep it or make alternate arrangements. > Did the mods pay for his/her way to New York? Completely irrelevant, as this is about how the company treated a guest. > As the GP said, this is an overreaction -- the mods act as if insulting one celebrity means that IAMA, a subreddit that was originally populated b…

Irrelevant. You make a commitment to someone, you keep it or make alternate arrangements.

How is it irrelevant? It's absolutely relevant.

When you make a commitment to someone to do a heart transplant, you better move heaven and earth to keep it and prepare for every conceivable contingency.

When you let go a public-facing employee, even if you mishandle the communication about it and a few people get briefly inconvenienced as a consequence, it's a regrettable mistake of the sort that unfortunately happen sometimes.

Re: Why We Shut Down Reddit’s ‘Ask Me Anything’ Forum

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Post by MichaelGG »

keithpeter wrote: post #155
danso wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> There is no information that can make the way the out of town guest was treated acceptable. Sorry, but is this guest the Queen of England or the Pope? Did the mods pay for his/her way to New York? As the GP said, this is an overreaction -- the mods act as if insulting one celebrity means that IAMA, a subreddit that was originally populated by regular reddit users, has been inconvertibly sullied. Or that they, the m…

Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of Her other Realms and Territories Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith has a considerable staff who would have managed the situation with their customary grace and good humour. Piss off Prince Philip however and you could be in for a hard time. http://i.imgur.com/ICSz7Xp.jpg Image of a now de…

Wow. I thought maybe it was just one comment, but Alexis really has been doing a job on reddit's PR. Why wouldn't you be more open an honest with people running the best known feature of your site?

In the end, the mods ditched reddit for actually handling AMAs, so I guess that's a good thing. Plus it'll mean reddit simply won't have monetization options as far as commercializing r/IAmA.

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