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If you watch the interview I think it’s pretty self evident how it embarrassed the subreddit into locking down. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yUMIFYBMnc http

by ndiddy 5y ago

If you watch the interview I think it’s pretty self evident how it embarrassed the subreddit into locking down. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yUMIFYBMnc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yUMIFYBMnc

syncbehind 5y ago
I couldn't finish watching that. Rough.
- RedBeetDeadpool 5y ago
  Watch it again. The interviewer wasn't even trying to be mean. The argument just crumbled in on itself in the atmospheric pressure of the real world.
  - perryizgr8 5y ago
    I've seen this sentiment expressed elsewhere too, something to the effect of "echo chamber collapses when exposed to the real world". I wonder how many internet forums that thrive today, only because of this isolation from the real world. Sometimes I feel this is true for HN, to a certain extent.
    - RedBeetDeadpool 5y ago
      HN has foundations in math and engineering so I don't think it would collapse as easily. In real life it would be more akin to a developer convention. There would be purpose and connection to the shared reality. It wouldn't survive in the streets of normal people per se but it would be capable of standing on its own foundation, at least significantly better than lets say a star wars convention. It will look pretty silly if someone claiming to be a jedi master went on camera to be interviewed, but not so much if a machine learning expert did.
  - Gigachad 5y ago
    Fox News set the situation up to begin with. They likely investigated the person before requesting them as they asked for this mod specifically. They could have seen the top mod is an autistic, trans, reddit moderator who fits the boomer caricature of entitled lazy millennial. Then it’s no shocker when the interview is completely socially inept because that’s what they set up from the start. The Fox News guy is even mocking the moderator but the mod isn’t socially aware enough to see it.
to1y 5y ago
Quite horrendous but if you were at any point following the sub, most of the threads were in the same tone.
- marcusverus 5y ago
  The comments on Reddit are a sad sight. The fun is gone, the humor is stale. There is no discussion whatsoever. All that's left are a lot of sad, angry people, reciting the litany in hopes of earning digital applause from sad, angry strangers. It's the progressive millennials' equivalent of the Fox News comments section.
throwaway0a5e 5y ago
They didn't lock down just to keep the spotlight off. The participants decried "you don't represent us" and proceeded to get uppity and then the mods wend scorched earth which culminated in locking the sub. I'm sure the spotlight didn't help.

by ndiddy 5y ago

syncbehind 5y ago

I couldn't finish watching that. Rough.

RedBeetDeadpool 5y ago
Watch it again. The interviewer wasn't even trying to be mean. The argument just crumbled in on itself in the atmospheric pressure of the real world.
- perryizgr8 5y ago
  I've seen this sentiment expressed elsewhere too, something to the effect of "echo chamber collapses when exposed to the real world". I wonder how many internet forums that thrive today, only because of this isolation from the real world. Sometimes I feel this is true for HN, to a certain extent.
  - RedBeetDeadpool 5y ago
    HN has foundations in math and engineering so I don't think it would collapse as easily. In real life it would be more akin to a developer convention. There would be purpose and connection to the shared reality. It wouldn't survive in the streets of normal people per se but it would be capable of standing on its own foundation, at least significantly better than lets say a star wars convention. It will look pretty silly if someone claiming to be a jedi master went on camera to be interviewed, but not so much if a machine learning expert did.
- Gigachad 5y ago
  Fox News set the situation up to begin with. They likely investigated the person before requesting them as they asked for this mod specifically. They could have seen the top mod is an autistic, trans, reddit moderator who fits the boomer caricature of entitled lazy millennial. Then it’s no shocker when the interview is completely socially inept because that’s what they set up from the start. The Fox News guy is even mocking the moderator but the mod isn’t socially aware enough to see it.

to1y 5y ago

Quite horrendous but if you were at any point following the sub, most of the threads were in the same tone.

marcusverus 5y ago
The comments on Reddit are a sad sight. The fun is gone, the humor is stale. There is no discussion whatsoever. All that's left are a lot of sad, angry people, reciting the litany in hopes of earning digital applause from sad, angry strangers. It's the progressive millennials' equivalent of the Fox News comments section.

throwaway0a5e 5y ago

They didn't lock down just to keep the spotlight off. The participants decried "you don't represent us" and proceeded to get uppity and then the mods wend scorched earth which culminated in locking the sub. I'm sure the spotlight didn't help.