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How Reddit Got Obama

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Re: How Reddit Got Obama

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Post by raygunomical »

noodle wrote: post #65
JohnsonB wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Okay, he answered top voted questions at the time Well, for example, he was asked if he'd consider raising the budget for NASA, his answer didn't directly respond or answer the question, just re-quote his campaign piece on the issue. He didn't answer if he'd consider raising the budget, he just gave some purposefully vague reply about the notion that "we should stay at the forefront of space exploration." >There wer…

So your complaint is the POTUS should've come to the AMA with more time to spend, hunted down "better" questions to answer, and then spent more time thoroughly answering the questions. Someone else's complaint is going to be, why is the POTUS wasting his time and our tax dollars with reddit? Someone else's complaint is going to be that reddit's lucky POTUS gave them any of his time and that reddit was not appropriate…

A lot of busy, high-profile people (Noam Chomsky, for example) have done off-line AMAs. That is, commenters will post questions, and upvotes will determine the best/most popular ones. And then, answers for those will be posted all at once, maybe even as a different thread if enough time has passed since the questions were asked.

That would have been an excellent model to follow here, and probably would have meant more time spent answering each question (for the President) and higher quality questions getting upvoted (since there's plenty of time for the collaborative filtering process to shape the question-space).

Re: How Reddit Got Obama

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Post by bguthrie »

citricsquid wrote: post #64
bguthrie wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is a dismayingly flippant comment, and I'm particularly disappointed that you of all people should have made it. Would you be more relieved if our executive branch were entirely composed of people who are completely disengaged from the internet at a social level?

Pretty sure the joke is they're using reddit at work. It's a common reddit joke.

If it was meant as a joke then I rescind my comment, with apologies.

Re: How Reddit Got Obama

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Post by snogglethorpe »

derleth wrote: post #68
nacker wrote: post #37

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"What a disappointing AMA. He answers stupid questions about his favorite basketball player and the white house beer recipe, but completely ignores the important ones about decriminalization of marijuana." This. Do not vote. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy:_The_God_That_Failed http://mises.org/document/1092/Myth-of-National-Defense-The-...

> Do not vote. Wonderful way to be lazy while pretending to take a moral stand: Claim they're all crooks, that you can't see any difference between them, and that you refuse to participate. It's laziness mixed with condescension and moral outrage. Perfect!

> It's laziness mixed with condescension and moral outrage.

AKA, The Internet.

Re: How Reddit Got Obama

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Post by nacker »

derleth wrote: post #68
nacker wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"What a disappointing AMA. He answers stupid questions about his favorite basketball player and the white house beer recipe, but completely ignores the important ones about decriminalization of marijuana." This. Do not vote. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy:_The_God_That_Failed http://mises.org/document/1092/Myth-of-National-Defense-The-...

> Do not vote. Wonderful way to be lazy while pretending to take a moral stand: Claim they're all crooks, that you can't see any difference between them, and that you refuse to participate. It's laziness mixed with condescension and moral outrage. Perfect!

You have lot to learn, derleth, and a lot of arrogance and ignorance to own up to.

http://www.lewrockwell.com/hein/hein70.html http://www.lewrockwell.com/dilorenzo/dilorenzo59.html http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig9/dunaway-r1.html http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig3/huebert7.html http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig5/katz2.html http://www.lewrockwell.com/mcelroy/mcelroy37.html http://www.lewrockwell.com/casey/casey62.1.html

I DON'T think you have it all figured out!

Re: How Reddit Got Obama

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Post by corin_ »

lukevdp wrote: post #56
shorttime wrote: post #32

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I'm not bashing anyone but there must be some observations made obvious. He's lived in Chicago, the Bulls comment makes sense. Appealing to his home town. "NOT BAD" - do you REALLY think he knew to say that or do you think someone prompted him? There are very smart people that control his speeches, people behind the curtains, to get the maximum appeal from the audience in which he is speaking to. Everything is script…

I don't think you're giving him enough credit. He speaks in public forums all the time. He speaks for himself just fine there, why would an internet forum be any different?

While he obviously has to be and is good on his feat, do you realise that for much of his public speaking he has speechwriters working for him?

Re: How Reddit Got Obama

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Post by r00fus »

rorrr wrote: post #43
redthrowaway wrote: post #27

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Why on Earth would he go touch marijuana legalization with a 10-foot pole? He's not Ron Paul; he's actually trying to win the election. The average swing voter is a middle-aged mom, and you want him to talk about marijuana legalization? You can either be a frank politician who addresses all questions honestly, or you can be a politician who wins elections.

Because that's one of the promises he made during his first election campaign, and he broke it.

Do you have a cite for that?

All I see on Google is other folks saying he would support de-criminalization of marijuana (and AG Holder actually de-prioritized drug offenses for awhile before the DEA basically decided to ignore them and still continue their busts).

Re: How Reddit Got Obama

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Post by rdl »

The question I wanted to ask was "under what conditions would you call for an accelerated withdrawal from Afghanistan, or an extended presence in Afghanistan, compared to the announced 2014 withdrawal date." But Reddit was in read-only mode most of the time.

I really hope Romney/Paul and Gary Johnson (again) do IAMAs.

Re: How Reddit Got Obama

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Post by majormajor »

Something overlooked in the "he didn't give interesting answers" complaints is that just being able to ask a question (even if it goes unanswered) is a form of communication with the President that's never been available to an average citizen in this way.

Re: How Reddit Got Obama

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Post by nacker »

nacker wrote: post #45
edw519 wrote: post #30

There are quite a few redditors at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave... Your tax dollars at work.

It's so sad to see so many HN and Redditors so intent on their "upwardly mobile", morally relative dreams that they fail to take account of the totalitarian state they have come to live in. You will NOT be alright, jack. Listen. As of September 2012, the AppForThat, Startup, bubble is just about over. I say this as someone who warned others of the dotcom and real estate bubbles. If you want to think of it as a "techn…

No, really. I was expecting downvotes and I see I'm getting them. I understand people don't want to hear this. Why am I saying this then? I have nothing to gain.

Altruism. It exists.

Run for the hills!

http://pt.scribd.com/doc/95493792/The-End-Game

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