“A very small percentage of the users are power users, and they generate the content, they generate the value and they perform a lot of the free moderation,”

  • @[email protected]
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    171 year ago

    While I’d like to see a positive change from Reddit from the blackout, I don’t see them changing their ways.

    Even if they did, I have 0 trust that it’d stay that way.

    • Matte
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      121 year ago

      I think they’re in a more sensitive situation this time, compared to the past.

      they’re about to submit an IPO, so having a riot in their own service is damaging them economically.

      although I’m not really sure the management can actually understand it.

      • @[email protected]
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        71 year ago

        C-Levels are normally pretty oblivious to anything that isn’t presented to them in a spreadsheet with lines going up and to the right. “Any publicity is good publicity” - Tone-deaf executives probably

    • @WanderA
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      71 year ago

      Especially after that AMA that Spez gave.

      • @[email protected]
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        91 year ago

        I can’t even call that an AMA. It appeared that he had pre-prepared answers for certain questions, and nothing else.

        • @[email protected]
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          61 year ago

          Less of an AMA, more of a AMOTQABMPT. Ask Me Only The Questions Approved By My PR Team (but I still managed to fuck up.)

        • @WanderA
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          21 year ago

          Maybe the questions were prepared as well.

          • panoptic
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            21 year ago

            At one point he posted a response that started with “A:” before editing it to drop the A:
            which made it clear he was posting canned answers at the very least