“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,”
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.
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.
I don’t have confidence in their management at all.
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
Especially after that AMA that Spez gave.
I can’t even call that an AMA. It appeared that he had pre-prepared answers for certain questions, and nothing else.
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.)
Maybe the questions were prepared as well.
I wouldn’t doubt it.
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
Oh but you could ask him anything… it just wouldn’t necessarily get answered, or even made visible.
The goal is to harm them and show corporation that there’s a good chunk of people who want a different internet.
At the same time, I wonder if it would be sustainable for them to replace mods with employees. Not that many users are willing to moderate, and even less are capable of doing it. The whole website exists thanks to those people who also happen to (usually) be the most tech savy and the ones who care more about a free internet
Love how the news article cited some random anonymous Reditor.
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.
It was all over the BBC this morning
The more visibility the better.
