“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,”

  • @Spitfire@pawb.social
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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.

      • @borlax@lemmy.borlax.com
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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.

      • @Spitfire@pawb.social
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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.

        • @wbl@beehaw.org
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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

  • @Metanoia@lemmy.world
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    71 year ago

    Getting picked up by NBC seems like a big step. National attention? Jailbait didn’t close until Anderson Cooper picked it up. So I wonder if this changes anything.

        • Em Adespoton
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          11 year ago

          The truth is, news agencies have leaned heavily on Reddit themselves as they’ve cut costs. So Reddit going down probably affected all the news agencies more than it affected regular people.