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> or a shadow of what it is. To be clear, this would have been an improvement. Reddit absolutely does not need the headcount it has. It provides no value to ei
by Tuna-Fish 3y ago
> or a shadow of what it is.
To be clear, this would have been an improvement. Reddit absolutely does not need the headcount it has. It provides no value to either users or to the company. It should have never grown above 50 people.
- _hypx 3y ago50 is probably too few. Because it has an international reach, something closer to 200 people is probably necessary. Of course, having 2,000 workers is far too many.
- mwint 3y agoIt’s user-content and user-moderated. Why does the international bit matter? (Honest question)
- disgruntledphd2 3y agoSelling ads scales with n where n is your number of salespeople. Edit: content moderation scales similarly, but you can maybe contract most of that out.
- cjs_ac 3y agoAmongst the UK-oriented subreddits, there is a phenomenon called the Forbidden Meatball Problem. There is a dish associated with the West Country of England that you can't discuss on Reddit because Americans don't know that its name can mean something other than a homophobic slur. The moderators of those subreddits have raised the issue of banning people for discussing food and received no adequate response. Reddit enforces its own moderation policies on subreddits, regardless of the wishes of the moderators or communities, which can only be done effectively if the company has awareness of more social and cultural issues than the ones in Silicon Valley.
- ben_w 3y ago> Forbidden Meatball Problem I'll have to remember that one. My other similar example is the same word, but used in the sense of cigarette and combined with Irish idioms for "fun" ('craic' pronounced crack) and "borrowing or begging" ('bumming'). I'll let people make their own jokes.