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Re: Reddit Welcomes Michael Seibel to Board of Directors

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Post by varjag »

tomnipotent wrote: post #299
kortilla wrote: post #286

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> I have never seen this be the case, though I can only speak for start-ups and early post-IPO eras. That’s usually because the founder(s) still have majority control at that point so the board just takes an advisory role. The dynamic completely changes when the board members can form a majority and remove the entire C suite.

> can form a majority and remove the entire C suite. Having this power doesn't give them any authority over strategy, it just means that with proper paperwork they can remove someone. But boards don't put someone in the pilot seat unless they expect them to fly. CEO's are given a considerable amount of latitude (remember Adam Neumann?).

This is splitting hairs. Being able to fire the execs very much guarantees your voice is more than advisory.

Re: Reddit Welcomes Michael Seibel to Board of Directors

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Post by ceilingcorner »

dang wrote: post #250
apatters wrote: post #231

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Why don't we just tell it like it is? The majority of comments here reflect the fact that Reddit is a garbage site run by a garbage company. Used to be great, more garbage every day. They leverage network effect to abuse their users and to suck. I look forward to the day they fail and the free market replaces them.

I feel you, but alas it's by no means guaranteed that the "free market" would replace it with anything better. The same pressures would exist on any replacement, and those pressures all point to what you're calling garbage. We're lucky that something as quirky as Reddit got to succeed as well as it did. It would be awesome if we could collectively get to the point where growth didn't have to trump everything else, so…

I’ve often thought that the only way a reasonable media source / online forum can survive and maintain its values is as an add-on project to something else. The profit motive doesn’t seem to function well when it comes to information.

Re: Reddit Welcomes Michael Seibel to Board of Directors

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Post by swarnie_ »

DoingIsLearning wrote: post #298
leesec wrote: post #134

Please get rid of the flow where it shows me other threads when I click on the comments of a current thread. I'm never going to switch to a new thread from the comments. I just want to read the comments.

I am almost unwilling to advertise this, out of fear that they might disable it if it gains a lot of traffic. But... reddit has older versions still online. Desktop: old.reddit.com Mobile: reddit.com/.compact In fact you can just append the '.compact' to any reddit link on mobile and it will render it more sanely. The day either of these features get disabled, is the day I will stop using the platform. edit: typo

old.reddit.com along with the RES plugin and an ad blocker almost make the site usable.

I have no idea how people use the new layout with a standard browser.

Re: Reddit Welcomes Michael Seibel to Board of Directors

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Post by nathias »

hnzix wrote: post #101
ProAm wrote: post #71

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What more is there to do with reddit? All their new ideas in the last 5 years have been poached from other social sites that did it first. It will always be a cesspool in the same manner that twitter and facebook with always be cesspools but that's more a reflection on society than management. They will always be pawns in the bot game, political game and advertising/sponsorship game because they are conduits only. No…

> Nothing good comes out of reddit that is not put into reddit from the outside. The good that comes from inside Reddit is the curation, as much as everyone likes to complain about it. They have become more proactive about banning hate and grief subreddits and have a system for reporting and shadowbanning bad faith individuals. If anything one could argue they come down a little too hard on borderline controversial s…

ah yes, come for the news, stay for the censorship

Re: Reddit Welcomes Michael Seibel to Board of Directors

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Post by nexuist »

TA0X6 wrote: post #243
nexuist wrote: post #234

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The payment processor I use to pay my ISP and registrar like...my bank account? To date I have never heard of anyone having their Internet cut off because their ISP did not like their political views. I am pretty sure neonazis are welcome to use all ISPs, from Comcast to Cox.

>The payment processor I use to pay my ISP and registrar like...my bank account? Even if it's your bank account, you're still using a payment processor. Even if that's your bank, they can also decide not to do business with you. >To date I have never heard of anyone having their Internet cut off because their ISP did not like their political views. I am pretty sure neonazis are welcome to use all ISPs, from Comcast t…

What happened to Stormfront was due to them being involved in egging on mass shootings. You are free to say whatever you want but you cannot incite violence. Is that not the system working? They were not banned for being racists; they were banned for being killers.

Re: Reddit Welcomes Michael Seibel to Board of Directors

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Post by nexuist »

raxxorrax wrote: post #274
nexuist wrote: post #184

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I don't see why Republicans can't just use another platform like gab or voat if they think reddit has become hostile to them. Reddit being a private company has every right to control what ideologies are promoted on their pages just as you have every right to start your own reddit clone and moderate it however you feel. There's even an open source core with which to start from: https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddi…

> Reddit being a private company has every right to control what ideologies are promoted on their pages just as you have every right to start your own reddit clone and moderate it however you feel. This is the exact same reasoning letter by letter that was used against rock'n'roll at that time by republicans. They also didn't use state censorship, just private companies executing their rights. Just saying.

And rock and roll won, didn't it? Everyone knows about rock bands and listens to rock music these days, and nobody cares about the RIAA. They rightfully lost the war.

Re: Reddit Welcomes Michael Seibel to Board of Directors

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Post by MultusSalus »

MrJagil wrote: post #239
apatters wrote: post #231

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Why don't we just tell it like it is? The majority of comments here reflect the fact that Reddit is a garbage site run by a garbage company. Used to be great, more garbage every day. They leverage network effect to abuse their users and to suck. I look forward to the day they fail and the free market replaces them.

I have quite an intricate system build up to get the most quality out of reddit as poossible —it’s still quite bad, but it’s better. I have been thinking of making a blog post or soemthing about it. - I have a multireddit with select magic the gathering subs - I have a multireddit with select tech subs - I have a multireddit with general high quality subs - My “all” feed has HUNDREDS of subs filtered off. This is a l…

Depending on what exactly you want, nitter.net is a fairly good twitter client, although you need to use an rss reader to follow particular accounts.

Re: Reddit Welcomes Michael Seibel to Board of Directors

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Post by nexuist »

throwawaypop wrote: post #297
nexuist wrote: post #184

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I don't see why Republicans can't just use another platform like gab or voat if they think reddit has become hostile to them. Reddit being a private company has every right to control what ideologies are promoted on their pages just as you have every right to start your own reddit clone and moderate it however you feel. There's even an open source core with which to start from: https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddi…

The answer seems very immature to me. Just because we have a president which folks hate doesn't mean companies should just go and represent left idelogies. These platforms were built once by folks who believed in freedom of speech and opinions. We are clearly leaving *63M+ people in USA when we make content moderation choices which are left-friendly. I'm not into talking politics. I wish these platforms allow freedom…

> These platforms were built once by folks who believed in freedom of speech and opinions.

Let's not be silly here, these platforms were clearly built by folks seeking to generate profit, otherwise they would all be non profits. Any ideologies expressed by their founders or corporate marketing are only a byproduct of what is "in" culturally, because that is what makes more money.

> We are clearly leaving *63M+ people in USA when we make content moderation choices which are left-friendly

Only in America are these choices seen as "left-friendly." In the rest of the Western world, they are seen as "reasonable."

I actually do agree that Twitter moderation has a problem with conservative thinking. I think that they should drop the pretense that they exist to cater everyone and be more clear in their rules as to what type of speech will get you kicked out of the circle. We all know Twitter is an echo chamber; the least it could do is make you aware of it instead of leading you on into thinking all of your ideas will be accepted by the system.

Re: Reddit Welcomes Michael Seibel to Board of Directors

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Post by 0-O-0 »

DoingIsLearning wrote: post #298
leesec wrote: post #134

Please get rid of the flow where it shows me other threads when I click on the comments of a current thread. I'm never going to switch to a new thread from the comments. I just want to read the comments.

I am almost unwilling to advertise this, out of fear that they might disable it if it gains a lot of traffic. But... reddit has older versions still online. Desktop: old.reddit.com Mobile: reddit.com/.compact In fact you can just append the '.compact' to any reddit link on mobile and it will render it more sanely. The day either of these features get disabled, is the day I will stop using the platform. edit: typo

For now you can opt-out from redesign in reddit settings.

Re: Reddit Welcomes Michael Seibel to Board of Directors

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Post by puranjay »

baddox wrote: post #177
sushid wrote: post #92

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Moreover, if I relent and click "View on app" while on mobile, it directs me to the App Store instead of opening the app to the thread I was attempting to read. At least handoff correctly if you're going to force me to use your stupid app.

Me too. It’s fascinating how that level of incompetence can persist for so long. I can’t believe that someone who is in charge of their visitor numbers hasn’t realized that they are surely missing out on an utterly huge number of visits due to that broken flow.

I haven't checked in a while but on mobile, responding to threads would collapse the text completely on itself in the new layout. The problem persisted for months and I ended up dropping Reddit from my reading list altogether.

Incredible how a billion dollar corporation can be so bad at doing the basics right. Twitter is the same - I still can't play videos on the first try 80% of the time.

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