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

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Post by Aaronontheweb »

Kodix wrote: post #158
stormbeta wrote: post #146

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Too bad most of the community there is made up of the worst of reddit. Maybe if enough normal users moved there it'd be worth it, and maybe that will actually happen if reddit doesn't figure out how to salvage this, but until then, there's nothing on voat worth wading through the sewage.

If I recall correctly (it's down right now, not a big surprise) about half of the users are subscribers to voat's fatpeoplehate. Those excellent people are the grassroots of the community you'd be joining.

My experience, having actually used Voat, is that this is not the case. I've engaged people in the /v/gaming, /v/programming subverses and everyone's been friendly and polite to me thus far.

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

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Post by detaro »

personjerry wrote: post #71

This seems like an abuse of power to me. The people who have closed the subreddits are the moderators. These moderators should represent the desires of the users . In this case, they are instead caring for their own personal feelings/ease of moderation through communication with the Victoria. As a result, hundreds of thousands of redditors are cut off from their friends and fellow subredditors. Even the AMAs are cut…

They are the few in a position to actually force reddit to corporation to react, and doing so IS supporting the users.

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

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Post by ljk »

flashman wrote: post #130
lingben wrote: post #114

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reddit is one of the simplest and easiest sites for a new user to learn to use. Somehow, Ellen Pao doesn't know how to use reddit, nevermind what the culture and community that has built over a decade truly means. She meant to send someone a pm but did a selfpost instead and then hurriedly erased it and banned everyone that responded to the selfpost: https://archive.is/9RFIp Reminds me of my grandmother sending me a…

That link also illustrates how utterly hateful some parts of the Reddit community is. Being a Reddit admin must be really frustrating.

> That link also illustrates how utterly hateful some parts of the Reddit community is.

I left a comment in that thread, but wasn't one of the hateful ones. While I don't think saying those hateful things are justified, I can see where they're coming from. This was right after the whole scandal with the banning, i think within 24hrs of the announcement, and a lot of them were passionate about the site, so they weren't really being friendy toward her

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

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Post by detaro »

TeMPOraL wrote: post #64

A tangential point, but I really abhor this style of writing: "/r/IAmA, /r/AskReddit, /r/science, /r/gaming, /r/history, /r/Art, /r/videos, /r/gadgets, and /r/movies have all made themselves private in response to the removal of an administrator key to the AMA process (... lots of other text ...) Major subreddits, including /r/4chan, /r/circlejerk and /r/ImGoingToHellForThis, have also expressed solidarity through go…

The first list references the title (although "default" subreddits would be the better term), the second one are additional ones that are not in the default list.

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

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Post by ljk »

beedogs wrote: post #333
rodgerd wrote: post #200

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> The community can be nasty but they do not treat every admin this way Who would have thought that the minds responsible for redpill, mensrights, and coontown might make a community less than enjoyable?

Thing is, before they started hellbanning all of those subreddits (TrayvonMartin, fatpeoplehate, etc.) I had no idea they even existed. For 8 years I've been blissfully unaware of all the garbage subreddits popping up.

same here, i have not heard about any of these extreme subreddit until the /r/fph announcement, and i've been on reddit before the "digg exodus"

i wonder if non-reddit-users think of the entire reddit community as hateful...

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

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Post by ljk »

tehwebguy wrote: post #229
lingben wrote: post #114

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reddit is one of the simplest and easiest sites for a new user to learn to use. Somehow, Ellen Pao doesn't know how to use reddit, nevermind what the culture and community that has built over a decade truly means. She meant to send someone a pm but did a selfpost instead and then hurriedly erased it and banned everyone that responded to the selfpost: https://archive.is/9RFIp Reminds me of my grandmother sending me a…

Do you know if any users in that thread were actually banned? I checked out the reddit for the top level posts and it appears that many of them, even the ones that posted the most mean spirited comments in that thread, seem to be active. Most of them have plenty of recent comments with votes and replies. Maybe the banned had their comments deleted? I don't think that's how it works though.

i commented on that thread, and i wasn't banned/shadowbanned

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

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Post by ljk »

andreyf wrote: post #384
lingben wrote: post #114

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reddit is one of the simplest and easiest sites for a new user to learn to use. Somehow, Ellen Pao doesn't know how to use reddit, nevermind what the culture and community that has built over a decade truly means. She meant to send someone a pm but did a selfpost instead and then hurriedly erased it and banned everyone that responded to the selfpost: https://archive.is/9RFIp Reminds me of my grandmother sending me a…

> Reminds me of my grandmother sending me a picture by sending the c:/ link in the email. Not really... there is no consistent clear way to tell if a web page is meant for your account only or public. For example, if someone @tweets at you, you can share that URL just fine. Given that reddit's notification system for public replies and private messages is identical (the orange envelope), it's really not that hard to…

> * is no consistent clear way to tell if a web page is ...*

i think it's the same with different technologies, it all depends on the user :p

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

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Post by ljk »

Frozenlock wrote: post #335
forgottenpass wrote: post #56

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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 keep getting pissed off at them. I can't agree more, back in the jedberg/HueyPreist days the staff felt like reddit users, now you get the feeling the office just looks at the community as a magic box of unpaid labor. Anyone putting in real effort is bette…

>the handful of people who put in effort under reddit's brand are in an exploitative relationship. In some ways, it feels like Twitch.tv. I'm a little sad when I think of all these people making an 'exception' with twitch.tv by turning off their ad-blocks, by gladly giving $5 per month PER subscription (and some people subscribe multiple times on the same channel), by excusing a streaming website that still uses Flas…

it's kind of the same with crowdfunding projects, they give the donors an illusion of being part of a community, but it really isn't :/

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

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Post by ljk »

Reedx wrote: post #337
keithy wrote: post #290

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The community would be in an uproar if such a sale happened. Reddit's only monetization schemes right now are 1) reddit gold 2) ads and 3) the gift shop. These are things that the community can completely boycott. Any sane person would know not to buy out something like reddit.

It depends... Reddit was sold once before, and it thrived post-sale.

that sale also made reddit lost one of its original cofounders :( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz

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

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Post by brobinson »

dfischer wrote: post #407
adventured wrote: post #217

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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?

Heroku was acquired for $212mm. Not even close to the valuation of AirBNB.
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