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They wasted half a decade not building promised moderation tools for the people who create value on Reddit. Instead they were busy running cost/benefit analyse
by AmericanOP 3y ago
They wasted half a decade not building promised moderation tools for the people who create value on Reddit.
Instead they were busy running cost/benefit analyses on how aggressive the dark patterns to drive users to the maligned mobile app should be.
- wpietri 3y agoI still feel bad for whatever web developer had to check in the "this page looks better in the app" banner.
- Lapsa 3y agogreat levels of empathy. and I'm not sarcastic
- sdenton4 3y agoPull request description: "Does it really, though?"
- vkou 3y agoIt's a job. Some people are paid to shoot rockets into cities, some people are paid to deny healthcare coverage, some people are paid to lie on television, and some people are paid to lie on dark pattern banners.
- adamc 3y agoThey should be hunted down.
- BizarreByte 3y agoThat's a bit extreme. Your job is to do the right thing for the business your work for, no the users. If they tell you to implement a banner or dark pattern you do it.
- adamc 3y agoNo, you resign, if you are a decent human being.
- unsupp0rted 3y agoIt’s a lot easier to be a decent human being with a big bank account, no sick family members and housing that you own, not rent.
- adamc 3y agoEverything is easier with resources. But if you only have standards when you can easily afford to, you have no standards.
- BizarreByte 3y agoNormal people have to feed themselves and their families. They aren’t going to quit over something so trivial.
- adamc 3y agoThat you think it trivial is a big difference between us.
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