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Just look at the recent IE9 debacle. It was an 'ask me anything'. What MS responded with was crappy marketing speak, which would have worked on 'normal' people
by points 16y ago
Just look at the recent IE9 debacle. It was an 'ask me anything'.
What MS responded with was crappy marketing speak, which would have worked on 'normal' people. Normal people would have swallowed it up. But Reddit did not - ie they are hard to monetize.
- StavrosK 16y agoWhat... I can't even... If you can't fool people, they're hard to monetize? Have you tried being honest for a change? Opera did an IAmA, had ten engineers answering every question in a very informative manner, and I feel that they got a million times better publicity than Microsoft ever did.
- points 16y ago... and Opera is still a niche what 2% browser share? It's not about 'fooling' people though. It's about people being overly skeptical, assuming everything is a scam, assuming conspiracy theories, ulterior motives. I'm simply saying that the Reddit userbase is untrusting and not an easily monetizable demographic.
- redthrowaway 16y agoI wouldn't describe the response to the IE9 AMA as overly skeptical. People had some serious issues with what MS had done with IE in the past, and asked pointed questions. The response was lackluster, at best. I'm sure if they had just stuck their engineering team in there to begin with, it wouldn't have spun out of (MS's) control as it did. Microsoft screwed the pooch on that one. I don't think you can take that incident as being reflective of advertisers' experience on reddit.