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>Were there moments in which Reddit chose to double down on something and made it that much harder to work toward a solution? >> I don’t know. I’m trying to th
by LordHumungous 8y ago
>Were there moments in which Reddit chose to double down on something and made it that much harder to work toward a solution?
>> I don’t know. I’m trying to think about your question.
>Is there something recent that you’re thinking of?
>> I can’t remember the specific instances right now, but there was a bunch of press about things that were going on on Reddit and Discord, and they both reacted and banned the subreddit.
>> I’ve got a lot of advice for start-ups, and it’s not very fucking complicated. It’s just: Think about the impact that you want to have on your users and on the people consuming your content and do the right thing. They know what the right thing is.
Sounds like this guy has a lot of vague complaints but not much in the way of concrete solutions, other than "do the right thing" which in his mind is extremely obvious and yet undefined.
- otoburb 8y ago>>Sounds like this guy has a lot of vague complaints but not much in the way of concrete solutions, other than "do the right thing" which in his mind is extremely obvious and yet undefined. Maybe he's operating on the same principle espoused by Justice Potter Stewart's "I know it when I see it" threshold test[1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_know_it_when_I_see_it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_know_it_when_I_see_it
- munificent 8y agoThat's an uncharitable interpretation of what are, I think, pretty clear words on his part. He says he doesn't know how to fix existing broken entrenched sites like Reddit and Twitter but does have suggestions for sites that are just getting started.
- VectorLock 8y agoHow well did those things work out for him?
- andygates 8y agoSounds like it's "don't be so stuck on 'free speech' that you let nazis and trolls dictate the dialogue"; strong moderation is what's been missing. Banhammers from on high, and damn the whiners.
- lscore720 8y agoI agree, but will go further to claim that the entire interview was horrible. So little information was conveyed in soo many words. He either had nothing to say, couldn't articulate what he had to say, or both.