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1. Yeah but no engineer should have to get their hands dirty in community moderation. 2. Come on, it's Reddit. I feel like many many developers would be intere
by johnfn 9y ago
1. Yeah but no engineer should have to get their hands dirty in community moderation.
2. Come on, it's Reddit. I feel like many many developers would be interested on brand alone. I was, for a time.
3. Possible. But there's a difference between adding random directionless features (which they haven't really done), and not doing anything at all (which they have).
- hitekker 9y ago1. Right, they shouldn't, but unfortunately, they had to. 2. From what I hear, Reddit wants the best, but the best are aware that Reddit's brand conceals well-documented dysfunction: https://www.recode.net/2015/7/13/11614676/reddit-chief-engineer-bethanye-blount-quits-after-less-than-two https://www.recode.net/2015/7/13/11614676/reddit-chief-engin.... https://np.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2iea97/i_am_a_former_reddit_employee_ama/cl1ygat/?context=3 https://np.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2iea97/i_am_a_former_r... The links go on. 3. I worked recently at a startup where the product was a shambling, swelling mass of features, implicitly designed to obscure its missing core value proposition to both investors and to the founders. There is definitely a difference in the process; perhaps not a meaningful difference in the outcome, which for those invested in the company is impotence, toxicity, despair, etc.
- pbhjpbhj 9y agoRe 1. if they're working on moderation code then they should get their hands dirty regularly.