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> The Reddit CEO's negative karma (-111,199 at this time) during the recent Ask Me Anything (AMA) session indicates an overwhelmingly negative response from the

by mlyle 3y ago

> The Reddit CEO's negative karma (-111,199 at this time) during the recent Ask Me Anything (AMA) session indicates an overwhelmingly negative response from the community. The really impressive thing is... if you follow a user profile link to a comment and vote, the vote doesn't count. And it was really hard to see spez's comments without following them from his profile, because they were so downvoted. So I don't even know how you get down to -1000 on comments.

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Dalewyn 3y ago
>I don't even know how you get down to -1000 on comments. By not going into the database and flipping the sign on that integer. And before anyone says I'm memeing or otherwise attacking spez without cause: Remember, this is spez. He admitted to directly modifying the database to edit comments of people critical of him once upon a time. He called forth this level of distrust himself.
- mlyle 3y ago
  Some people were noticing, early in the thread, big steps up on the net vote a couple minutes after each comment, which triggered some suspicion of similar shenanigans.
- netsharc 3y ago
  I just realized all the threats of going private are a bit moot because guess who controls the database where this flag is set? It'd be a massive fuck you to the community, but how would that be different to what's been going on the last few months? I'm guessing the company will be like an abusive partner saying "we're in control, you can leave, but we know you won't."
  - doix 3y ago
    Yes and no. They can force the the subs to go public again, but then the mods might quit. Losing a lot of mods is a bigger deal than losing the same number of users. Trying to find a bunch of new mods will probably be an issue. Right now there isn't _too much_ complaining about mods. It's a very fine balance and replacing a bunch of existing ones with new ones might cause mayhem.
    - DANmode 3y ago
      They've "organically" couped mods into subs to return them to normal operation in the past.
ant6n 3y ago
Perhaps ppl were using third party apps to have a better view of comments.
- spiderice 3y ago
  The Reddit team linked to all of spez's comments at the top of the thread. They were quite easy to find (in Apollo, at least)
  - marcosdumay 3y ago
    On the site you have to click the "load more comments" link for anything negative to appear... So if they look at their analytics later, they will probably discover the comforting fact that only people on 3rd party clients were downvoting the CEO.
  - mlyle 3y ago
    Yes, eventually they did this. But even before they did that, the scores were approaching negative infinity.
- Peanuts99 3y ago
  That is actually something I find about the new web UI, they seem to try to stop you from going too far down a comment chain. The comments are what I come to Reddit for.
varrock 3y ago
> The really impressive thing is... if you follow a user profile link to a comment and vote, the vote doesn't count. I've been a Reddit user for a while, but I never knew this. I tried doing a quick search, but it dates back to 2015 when it seems they were actually disabled all together from the profile page [0]. [0] https://www.reddit.com/r/help/comments/2nzzhg/if_i_go_through_someones_profile_and_downvote_or/ https://www.reddit.com/r/help/comments/2nzzhg/if_i_go_throug...

by mlyle 3y ago

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Dalewyn 3y ago

>I don't even know how you get down to -1000 on comments. By not going into the database and flipping the sign on that integer. And before anyone says I'm memeing or otherwise attacking spez without cause: Remember, this is spez. He admitted to directly modifying the database to edit comments of people critical of him once upon a time. He called forth this level of distrust himself.

mlyle 3y ago
Some people were noticing, early in the thread, big steps up on the net vote a couple minutes after each comment, which triggered some suspicion of similar shenanigans.
netsharc 3y ago
I just realized all the threats of going private are a bit moot because guess who controls the database where this flag is set? It'd be a massive fuck you to the community, but how would that be different to what's been going on the last few months? I'm guessing the company will be like an abusive partner saying "we're in control, you can leave, but we know you won't."
- doix 3y ago
  Yes and no. They can force the the subs to go public again, but then the mods might quit. Losing a lot of mods is a bigger deal than losing the same number of users. Trying to find a bunch of new mods will probably be an issue. Right now there isn't _too much_ complaining about mods. It's a very fine balance and replacing a bunch of existing ones with new ones might cause mayhem.
  - DANmode 3y ago
    They've "organically" couped mods into subs to return them to normal operation in the past.

ant6n 3y ago

Perhaps ppl were using third party apps to have a better view of comments.

spiderice 3y ago
The Reddit team linked to all of spez's comments at the top of the thread. They were quite easy to find (in Apollo, at least)
- marcosdumay 3y ago
  On the site you have to click the "load more comments" link for anything negative to appear... So if they look at their analytics later, they will probably discover the comforting fact that only people on 3rd party clients were downvoting the CEO.
- mlyle 3y ago
  Yes, eventually they did this. But even before they did that, the scores were approaching negative infinity.
Peanuts99 3y ago
That is actually something I find about the new web UI, they seem to try to stop you from going too far down a comment chain. The comments are what I come to Reddit for.

varrock 3y ago

> The really impressive thing is... if you follow a user profile link to a comment and vote, the vote doesn't count. I've been a Reddit user for a while, but I never knew this. I tried doing a quick search, but it dates back to 2015 when it seems they were actually disabled all together from the profile page [0]. [0] https://www.reddit.com/r/help/comments/2nzzhg/if_i_go_through_someones_profile_and_downvote_or/ https://www.reddit.com/r/help/comments/2nzzhg/if_i_go_throug...