More juicy reddit drama *now Jeopardy strategy debate because :fa_facebook:uck reddit
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And this time it has nothing to do with culture wars, too!
TLDR:
- reddit has a section called IAmA, where users can post questions and (sometimes) famous people answer.
- This subreddit was being helped by a reddit employee called Victoria. She would actually contact famous people, schedule the interview, help them navigate reddit's awful tree system etc.
- Yesterday, she was suddenly fired, without notice.
- IAmA moderators are caught off guard and put their subreddit to private mode (basically, offline). They say they have no other official contact with reddit brass and no way to reach people they have scheduled to do IAmA-s.
- Other subreddits start shutting down too. Some because they also do IAmA-s (eg. science and askhistorians), some in solidarity, some because they are pissed at reddit because of other things.
Fun fun fun. I wonder if reddit will pull the trigger and finally take over the management of most popular 'front-page" subreddits from volunteer moderators. Coincidentally, voat.co is offline again.
I would say this field is ripe for an upstart to swoop in, if anyone had an idea how to monetize a bunch of people who follow funny memes through RSS feeds and never click on adds.
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I don't even get it what is this reddit thing and why is it of any significance.
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WHAT!? BUT REDDIT IS THE MOST IMPORTANT SITE ON THE INTERNET!
* looks out the window *
* everyone's pretending they don't know there's an earth-shattering drama developing right now *
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BTW, I'd just like to point out that two most popular IAmA's ever were
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With US president Barrack Obama
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With a guy who has two dicks (pics included)
That's reddit.
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Everything I've seen is people automatically assuming Reddit are totally in the wrong and being completely on Victoria's side. I can't help thinking that for her to have been fired so suddenly she must have done something pretty serious,
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With a guy who has two dicks (pics included)
That was a good AMA.
Another popular one recently was a guy who repairs vacuum cleaners
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Everything I've seen is people automatically assuming Reddit are totally in the wrong and being completely on Victoria's side. I can't help thinking that for her to have been fired so suddenly she must have done something pretty serious,
I only found this on gawker of all fucking places, so take it with grain of salt.
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Another popular one recently was a guy who repairs vacuum cleaners
Oh yeah! The vacuum guy was king. Super useful.
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With a guy who has two dicks (pics included)
I'm disappoint. A man with three buttocks and a triple-breasted woman would be better.
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Hah. That's too funny.
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Goddamned, Reddit is nothing BUT drama. Why do you visit there?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Hv6pqRwwQA
Mitchell and Webb already took this to its logical conclusion.
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Goddamned, Reddit is nothing BUT drama. Why do you visit there?
Where do you think I get all the copypasta crap for cheap likes whoring on TDWTF?
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My Twitter feed?
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Lies, MY reddit front page is mostly cute animals.
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My Twitter feed?
But then it's been seen by literally tens of followers, so it's already been played out.
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Idk about anyone else, but “This had nothing to do with the bad Jesse Jackson AMA” is the kind of thing to make me think that it was definitely about that. What happened at the bad Jesse Jackson AMA?
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Idk about anyone else, but “This had nothing to do with the bad Jesse Jackson AMA” is the kind of thing to make me think that it was definitely about that. What happened at the bad Jesse Jackson AMA?
Read the gawker article.
Seems he was just copy-pasting random replies and wasn't really reading the questions.
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Read the gawker article.
Oh, right. Yeah that explained it pretty well. Nobody in the company gave a shit about the users except for her = no wonder she got canned. And that whole “building better tools” bit smells of them not planning to change whatever corporate/bureaucratic/cultural situation they've got that actually caused this mess.
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An ex reddit admin:
Sup qg... Several of our old mutual friends have been keeping me in the loop and from what they have been saying things are not looking good at reddit HQ. The higher ups (executives and board members) at reddit are totally out of touch with the community, kn0thing included sadly. Ellen Pao barely even knows how to use reddit, let alone truly understand what makes it tick and what it needs to survive and the vast majority of the new hires rarely (if ever) interact with the community like the admins of old. And to top it off most of the current admins aren't even webdevs, software engineers or community team members hired from within the community anymore... they are outside hires, mostly marketers and middle management. Does all this sound familiar? This sort of non-core site functions staff bloat and loss of touch with the community is literally the exact same thing that happened at digg before v4. Apparently this all started with Yishan's retarded plan to close the NYC office (which may be why Victoria was fired, since she was the last remaining admin in NYC) and force all the remote working admins (other than those outside the US) to relocate to SF or be fired, which caused an exodus of talent and generated a lot of resentment even by the staff that were willing/able to move. The mood in the SF office has supposedly gotten steadily worse since then too thanks to some of Pao's bizarre decisions regarding hiring (she refused to honor several of Yishan's hires despite the fact they had already quit their jobs to join reddit), restructuring (can't say much other than she seriously fucked several long-term employees over.. don't want anyone to get in trouble) and salary negotiations (according to her, women can't negotiate as well as men so nobody is allowed to negotiate their salaries anymore). Damnit... I really wish spez would come back and sort this shit out. ...sigh...
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How does it feel knowing that the reddit you knew and loved is dead, and whatever cool new thing comes up to replace it, you're probably not gonna be a part of?
It's probably around now, and we've either never heard of it or wouldn't be caught dead on there.
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How does it feel knowing that the reddit you knew and loved is dead, and whatever cool new thing comes up to replace it, you're probably not gonna be a part of?
It's probably around now, and we've either never heard of it or wouldn't be caught dead on there.
I don't think reddit will die. There's not enough money in the business model for someone new to swoop in.
I think reddit will make some noises to appease the mods, so they'd turn the site back on. Then the management will quietly start organizing an official admin force capable of taking over their main frontpage subs. Front page volunteer mods will either go away or start playing by company rules.
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Sure, the site will keep going. What I'm saying is that whatever wave reddit was riding on has now officially broken, and the only thing keeping it alive any more is inertia. Inertia is dependable, but it's not really as exciting being part of a community that is just a sink for memes as when it used to be a source as well.
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Maybe the frontpage subs will die off, but the smaller ones will probably be all right for a little bit.
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garbage and it's not.
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Obscure mid/western Massachusetts jokes? Okaaay.
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Too appropriative?
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And this time it has nothing to do with culture wars, too!
Smarttake at Vox says you're wrong!
https://twitter.com/Max_Fisher/status/617695004249747456
(h/t Instapundit)
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Obviously, it's all clear now.
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Vox, a company probably composed 104% of white liberals, once again tells others how they are racist.
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They have been doing things to their advertisers (besides shooing away their product)? Or do users actually pay money to use reddit?
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Just saying that their CEO only seems to hate one of the two things listed.
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You're being a pedantic dickweed and you know it.
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You're being a pedantic dickweed and you know it.
You say this like it's a bad thing.
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Pao resigned.
https://www.reddit.com/r/self/comments/3cudi0/resignation_thank_you/
So why am I leaving? Ultimately, the board asked me to demonstrate higher user growth in the next six months than I believe I can deliver while maintaining reddit’s core principles.
Sounds fishy to me. Reddit is already growing nicely. I could buy the request for better monetization, but this doesn't make sense.
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Another thread about this elsewhere: https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=230344
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So on her way out she basically trashed the future objectives of whomever becomes the future management? Stay classy Ellen Pao.
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Reddit co-founders are now snipping at each other publicly.
It seems there's a mounting blowback against all the Pao hate and people are beginning to wonder if she was set up to fail in a power struggle of the founders to regain the throne. Which is what one of them is hinting here: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/3cs78i/whats_the_best_long_con_you_ever_pulled/cszjqg2
Crazy.
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So apparently the CEO resigned, but the new CEO won't reverse anything or change the direction.
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This is seriously getting hilarious.
https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/3dautm/content_policy_update_ama_thursday_july_16th_1pm/
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the new CEO won't reverse anything or change the direction
Oh look, cumulogranite clouds ahead!
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let's take a page from the handbook of using quotes out of context to make things look more hypocritical than they are:
“A bastion of free speech on the World Wide Web? I bet they would like it”
Alexis Ohanian (2012/02/02)
"Neither Alexis nor I created reddit to be a bastion of free speech"
spez (2015/07/15)