The Reddit moderators who coordinate many celebrity AMAs will no longer do so
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Re: The Reddit moderators who coordinate many celebrity AMAs will no longer do so
#2I am not a Redditor; is there a synopsis somewhere to briefly explain what this war of mods vs Reddit has been about?
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#3I am not a Redditor; is there a synopsis somewhere to briefly explain what this war of mods vs Reddit has been about?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Reddit_API_controversy
The "Subreddit Blackout" section talks about the battle with moderators:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Reddit_API_controversy#...
Re: The Reddit moderators who coordinate many celebrity AMAs will no longer do so
#4This is completely unsurprising. I wrote a handful of small bots for a subreddit I helped with for a few years. Had all this API stuff gone down back then I’d have shut down my stuff as well. I spent a couple hundred dollars over those years on services and servers to help with that sub and I wouldn’t change it looking back but I also would never do that for something on Reddit again given how their CEO has behaved.
This is what people were warning about. On top of moderators walking away, Reddit is going to experience a “brain drain” of bot developers and developers who make tools for Reddit. Those people might not be influencers/content creators themselves but their work empowers that group.
I’m going to really miss Reddit and what it was. Other than Google results, Reddit died for me along with Apollo.
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#5I thought they had an employee for that. I mean they used to, was Victoria her name? She took dictation for celebrities until one of them complained when she transcribed their words too directly, when she was fired. Did no one replace her?
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#6I thought they had an employee for that. I mean they used to, was Victoria her name? She took dictation for celebrities until one of them complained when she transcribed their words too directly, when she was fired. Did no one replace her?
Mea culpa, the article mentions her. Though they do not detail exactly why she was fired, which I think they should.
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#7I thought they had an employee for that. I mean they used to, was Victoria her name? She took dictation for celebrities until one of them complained when she transcribed their words too directly, when she was fired. Did no one replace her?
Mea culpa, the article mentions her. Though they do not detail exactly why she was fired, which I think they should.
If I recall correctly former reddit CEO Yishan Wong’s tweets on the matter, it was ordered by Alexis Ohanian directly. Yishan went on to describe how Alexis let the at-the-time CEO, Ellen Pao, take the heat for the decision.
In my eyes, Reddit’s distaste for their own users emanates from the founders directly.
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#8Any reason whatsoever to believe new mods won't fill this role immediately?
Re: The Reddit moderators who coordinate many celebrity AMAs will no longer do so
#9This is completely unsurprising. I wrote a handful of small bots for a subreddit I helped with for a few years. Had all this API stuff gone down back then I’d have shut down my stuff as well. I spent a couple hundred dollars over those years on services and servers to help with that sub and I wouldn’t change it looking back but I also would never do that for something on Reddit again given how their CEO has behaved.…
For someone such as myself who has accessed Reddit through a web bowser since its founding in 2005, I don’t get the outrage. So some people can’t access it through their favorite app? I’m more annoyed mods are shutting off access to a valuable resource that millions of users including myself contributed to over the last 18 years.
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#10I thought they had an employee for that. I mean they used to, was Victoria her name? She took dictation for celebrities until one of them complained when she transcribed their words too directly, when she was fired. Did no one replace her?
I stopped caring about AMAs after they canned her. If felt like reddit wanted to turn AMAs into nothing but advertising. Occasionally other subreddits would host them with varying success though.