“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
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.
Love how the news article cited some random anonymous Reditor.
