I had extremely low expectations, and this was somehow worse lol
All canned and vetted responses. I don’t know what I expected, but I’m similarly disappointed.
The fact that he doubled down on the Apollo developer says everything you need to know about how reddit perceives us.
Oh wow Spez is still CEO? I thought he resigned after he edited that user’s comment without permission or whatever. Really kept a low profile since.
Yep. And, as it turned out, lots of folks* thought that was a funny thing and loved it. This is the guy who GG’d himself into the CEO position.
- Probably sock puppets, tbh.
He’s got to keep that CEO title so his balls don’t explode from a lack of ego stroking.
Unless they announce they’re going to undo the pricing changes completely, I don’t see myself using reddit anymore.
I doubt they’re going to. Why do an AMA other than to tell everyone how they are wrong?
If history tells us anything, they don’t even have to actually do it. Just say they’ll do it and it’ll never come up again.
I always felt that part of the allure of Reddit was that it was semi-anonymous. Now that I see they’re taking the route of Facebook and the like I’m running for the door.
I wonder if the downvotes will equal that of the EA Battlefront discussion. That was legendary.
That would be amazing.
However what I feel is going to happen is that they’ll either ignore any questions about 3rd party apps / API pricing or delete them. They seem to see them as competition. (The official app is trash soooo)
Honestly, no one gives or should give a shit about this guy.
Too late! He’s trying the make the best of a bad job.
I would be shocked if he answered more than 5-10 cherry-picked questions.
He replied to 14, but there was no actual answers to any of the questions.
It truly was a dumpster fire. A part of me did wish he would backtrack but he just doubled down.
It’s telling that they’re not even willing to work with the third-party Reddit apps. They could be true money makers for Reddit, or at the least, a way to minimize Reddit’s losses.
Also, doubling down and deciding that the subreddits that will be going dark in protest mean nothing. He’s said as much in the past that the moderators are expendable, though, so it would not be a surprise if Reddit administration or spez personally decides to usurp those mod teams.
so it would not be a surprise if Reddit administration or spez personally decides to usurp those mod teams.
There was some comment about “we’ll do whatever’s necessary to keep reddit online” so I think the implication there is that if high-traffic subs went dark for an extended period then he’d evict the mods and replace them with his yes men.
Personally I think the subs should go dark for 3 days each & every month. You can still run a successful community with those restrictions but it’s a pretty visible signal to investors that hey your userbase hates you and is itching for the opportunity to leave your sorry ass.
