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A competitor crippled a $23.5M bootcamp by becoming a Reddit moderator

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Re: A competitor crippled a $23.5M bootcamp by becoming a Reddit moderator

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Post by watwut »

LaurensBER wrote: post #477
watwut wrote: post #449

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While I understand your frustration I would like to point out that I'm not American. Other countries do exist and they also use Reddit and Twitter (despite the US politics spam we have to suffer through ;))

Trump, Musk and Kirk are all Americans. The topics of the thread was American congress, Rep. Comey’s and how Musk changed twitter.

Imo, assuming you are not talking about what Arabs or whoever outside of America say about it was reasonable. Especially since your comment seemed to talk about American political environment.

Re: A competitor crippled a $23.5M bootcamp by becoming a Reddit moderator

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Post by jibal »

michaelnovati wrote: post #169
fny wrote: post #50

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If you really cared, this should have started with: "I am stepping down as the moderator..." Even though you have counter claims, you moderating the forum for your industry is problematic. You also seem keen to chime in about a competitor when you should be impartial and allow users to discuss their experiences alone. Yes there are two sides to every story, but in no universe should you be the mod of that subreddit.

This is not my industry, no. Had the author reached out for comment they could publish my claims. More interested in a hit piece than the truth.

A "hit piece" can be the truth and that one is.

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Post by willtemperley »

neilv wrote: post #84

I don't know about this particular case, but, generally... bad actor subreddit moderators have been an occasional thing for well over a decade. And it's also been widely known for that long that Reddit is an influential venue in which to take over a corner -- for marketing or propaganda. What's an equal concern to me is how insufficiently resilient Reddit collectively appears to be, in face of this. A bad actor mod o…

There's no way to report a malicious sub as far as I can tell. I've been contacted by scammers that look very legit with the green Mod badge that shows in DMs.

Re: A competitor crippled a $23.5M bootcamp by becoming a Reddit moderator

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Post by jibal »

Ekaros wrote: post #411
ryanmerket wrote: post #189

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do you think maybe they could have kept it up if they didn't layoff 80% of their staff because of your modding? reddit is essentially google results at this point, don't act coy.

If their entire marketing strategy is Reddit. They deserve to die. They are failed company. If they were really good they would not need to astroturf reddit. Their students would be their best promoters and they would have line out of the door.

Nothing you said here is true or informed, starting with the first sentence, which gets things totally backwards.

Re: A competitor crippled a $23.5M bootcamp by becoming a Reddit moderator

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Post by oeirugjoiwejo »

michaelnovati wrote: post #169
fny wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you really cared, this should have started with: "I am stepping down as the moderator..." Even though you have counter claims, you moderating the forum for your industry is problematic. You also seem keen to chime in about a competitor when you should be impartial and allow users to discuss their experiences alone. Yes there are two sides to every story, but in no universe should you be the mod of that subreddit.

This is not my industry, no. Had the author reached out for comment they could publish my claims. More interested in a hit piece than the truth.

Do you deny that you work for the competitor? If you don't deny that, then it IS your industry.

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Post by peab »

devmor wrote: post #346
peab wrote: post #173

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Why didn't the author sue? Feels like this is a case where if what he says is true then that's what litigation is for, no?

Lawsuits can be very expensive. Even if you win. I’ve given up on recovering tens of thousands of dollars in the past because it would likely ruin me to pursue it.

But in this case there's a multi million dollar company on the line, it seems appropriate.

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Post by jibal »

michaelnovati wrote: post #95
malfist wrote: post #68

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> RE: CODESMITH. For starters as an example, Codesmith's website, email, and entire AWS account was down for 3 weeks because they got locked out from not updating their credit card and then losing the root password and their 2-factor was a phone number. This is unacceptable. Everything I can find online, including your post on reddit about the outage, says the outage was for 4 days. Not 3 weeks. I'll also note that y…

It was 3 weeks.

You provide no evidence and fail to respond to the criticism at the end ... which is bad behavior, among a great deal of other bad behavior.

Re: A competitor crippled a $23.5M bootcamp by becoming a Reddit moderator

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Post by oeirugjoiwejo »

ryanmerket wrote: post #196
michaelnovati wrote: post #159

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Hi. I don't run a bootcamp. I recommended people go to Codesmith too and there's a lot more to this story. It's missing half the context.

Bud, your LinkedIn of you and your wife say you are founders of a bootcamp.

His github shows it as place of work.

Also from his HN comment history:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43758527

> Hi, I'm the co-founder of Formation

Oops.

Re: A competitor crippled a $23.5M bootcamp by becoming a Reddit moderator

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Post by petesergeant »

irjustin wrote: post #285
petesergeant wrote: post #272

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> is the message we're trying to get you to accept You're replying to a comment where I said I agree with the statement "Reddit should not be considered an authoritative source"

With the phrase "the most reliable" which is a phrase to mean the subject you're describing is inherently reliable. Meaning you can read the reviews on reddit differently than amazon, yelp, and the rest. If reddit reviews can't be read differently vs others, why "most reliable"? You're trying to walk a line that says reddit not authoritative and yet reliable. In this specific context authoritative also comes to mean…

> "the most reliable" which is a phrase to mean the subject you're describing is inherently reliable

That's really not how superlative/comparative adjectives work

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Post by rgbrenner »

Jensson wrote: post #444
mcny wrote: post #330

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I didn't think it should be illegal to say "I wish X were dead" unless you have the means to make it happen like a rabid audience with a track record of killing people you wish were dead. Even then, I think there needs to be coordination or a wink nod of some kind that needs to be proven to muzzle free speech. Freedom of speech we don't like is the true litmus test of free speech. It is trivial to say I support free…

> Freedom of speech we don't like is the true litmus test of free speech. It is trivial to say I support free speech when someone says nice things about me. People are free to say mean things, they just aren't allowed to encourage violence. There is a difference between saying "I hate how Trump runs the country, he is an idiot" and "Can't someone kill Trump already". I have seen a lot of the second kind on reddit. Th…

the second case isn’t illegal in the USA because it’s not a specific credible threat.
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