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> Also, ceo of reddit looks like a horrid job. You could not pay me enough to be CEO of that cesspool. People take Reddit way too seriously.

by mullen 10y ago

noir_lord 10y ago
Some do, most don't, I just enjoy it for what it is.
derrickdirge 10y ago
Would you rather be spez or moot?
- mullen 10y ago
  Moot. You know he signed up for that and has continued to make 4chan what it is. Spez is trying to un-4chan reddit and catching a lot of flack for it. I would rather be a person who voluntarily runs a cesspool than be a person forced to run one.
  - derrickdirge 10y ago
    I mean, he's not /forced/. He was done with reddit. But he just couldn't quit.
- uabstraction 10y ago
  This is like being asked if you want to be shot by a cannon, or 100 guns.
  - taneq 10y ago
    In this context the correct analogy would be "one cannon-sized gun, or 100 gun-sized cannons."
daodedickinson 10y ago
Not as seriously as The New York Times, which has been guilty of far worse gaslighting. Walter Duranty and The New York Times were enough to make Ukranian survivors of Holomodor thought of as crazy in this country for about 50 years: http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2010/07/crimes_of_the_ny_times.html http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2010/07/crimes_of_th... Think about that next time you read about how Google and Facebook are going to tell you which sources are fake news and which aren't. Or not actually tell you, just put all the blacklisted ones down a memory hole.
- ec109685 10y ago
  The NY Times apologized and agrees with the critique that its reporter was terrible: The Times sent von Hagen's report to the Pulitzer Board and left it to the Board to take whatever action they considered appropriate.[27] In a letter accompanying the report, New York Times publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr. called Duranty's work "slovenly" and said it "should have been recognized for what it was by his editors and by his Pulitzer judges seven decades ago." (from Wikipedia)
  - RyanZAG 10y ago
    They can apologize, but a quote from the last line of the article: > For that I will never forgive the New York Times. In 50 years time, what disinformation that they are spreading today will they 'apologize' for?
samstave 10y ago
It is not important to take reddit seriously It is serious, though, to not discount reddit as important. The point is that you shouldnt, generally speaking, take reddit as a serious place (puns, memes, trolls, inside-jokes, meta, etc) -- but it is HAS accomplished something very significant; actually achieving being the Frontpage of the Internet.... Look at the chaos and beauty that reddit's userbase can create... Dont take reddit seriously - but take the people who use reddit serious. Seriously. if you can leverage them as a LOIC you can achieve some amazing things --- or fuck up really bad...

> Also, ceo of reddit looks like a horrid job. You could not pay me enough to be CEO of that cesspool. People take Reddit way too seriously.

by mullen 10y ago

> Also, ceo of reddit looks like a horrid job. You could not pay me enough to be CEO of that cesspool. People take Reddit way too seriously.

noir_lord 10y ago

Some do, most don't, I just enjoy it for what it is.

derrickdirge 10y ago

Would you rather be spez or moot?

mullen 10y ago
Moot. You know he signed up for that and has continued to make 4chan what it is. Spez is trying to un-4chan reddit and catching a lot of flack for it. I would rather be a person who voluntarily runs a cesspool than be a person forced to run one.
- derrickdirge 10y ago
  I mean, he's not /forced/. He was done with reddit. But he just couldn't quit.
uabstraction 10y ago
This is like being asked if you want to be shot by a cannon, or 100 guns.
- taneq 10y ago
  In this context the correct analogy would be "one cannon-sized gun, or 100 gun-sized cannons."

daodedickinson 10y ago

Not as seriously as The New York Times, which has been guilty of far worse gaslighting. Walter Duranty and The New York Times were enough to make Ukranian survivors of Holomodor thought of as crazy in this country for about 50 years: http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2010/07/crimes_of_the_ny_times.html http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2010/07/crimes_of_th... Think about that next time you read about how Google and Facebook are going to tell you which sources are fake news and which aren't. Or not actually tell you, just put all the blacklisted ones down a memory hole.

ec109685 10y ago
The NY Times apologized and agrees with the critique that its reporter was terrible: The Times sent von Hagen's report to the Pulitzer Board and left it to the Board to take whatever action they considered appropriate.[27] In a letter accompanying the report, New York Times publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr. called Duranty's work "slovenly" and said it "should have been recognized for what it was by his editors and by his Pulitzer judges seven decades ago." (from Wikipedia)
- RyanZAG 10y ago
  They can apologize, but a quote from the last line of the article: > For that I will never forgive the New York Times. In 50 years time, what disinformation that they are spreading today will they 'apologize' for?

samstave 10y ago

It is not important to take reddit seriously It is serious, though, to not discount reddit as important. The point is that you shouldnt, generally speaking, take reddit as a serious place (puns, memes, trolls, inside-jokes, meta, etc) -- but it is HAS accomplished something very significant; actually achieving being the Frontpage of the Internet.... Look at the chaos and beauty that reddit's userbase can create... Dont take reddit seriously - but take the people who use reddit serious. Seriously. if you can leverage them as a LOIC you can achieve some amazing things --- or fuck up really bad...