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Good to see them reporting on it. So many publications wouldn’t.

creatonez 3y ago
I found it funny how Ars Technica (owned by Condé Nast) had some of the best reporting offering scathing criticism of Reddit (also owned by Condé Nast) while Steve Huffman was destroying the website by killing off the API and leaving volunteer moderators without the tools they need to deal with spam. I'm not sure how common this is, but it was refreshing to see journalists doing their job properly despite being faced with a massive conflict of interest.
- jbm 3y ago
  > Steve Huffman was destroying the website by killing off the API and leaving volunteer moderators Did this really happen? The site seems to be as busy as normal and with the same opinions being expressed everywhere. Don't get me wrong, I think that was a huge loss and I don't use Reddit anymore as a result.
  - lmm 3y ago
    Reddit is noticeably less active and worse, at least the parts of it I'm in. Far short of "killing", but it did some damage.
    - DANmode 3y ago
      To the value for you. Is it making less money?/profit?, for Condé?
  - lebean 3y ago
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  - creatonez 3y ago
    There has been a dramatic rise in spam and hate speech, starting the day of the first moderator strikes. This hasn't gone unnoticed by the community, you see this observation being made by people all over the site.
hackeraccount 3y ago
Up to a point Ars does what it takes to generate clicks. I can't tell if they post more nakedly political content now then they used to but whenever I see that sort of thing on the site it depresses me. Like a picture of scantily glad woman on a link (Will you see more if you click it? Who knows but there's one way to find out for sure ... ) the end result if it delivers or not is a vague feeling of being manipulated. That the editors think less of me then I'd like. But who knows, certainly the political stuff on it usually doesn't appeal to my politics so maybe it's just unhappiness that they don't share my views.

I found it funny how Ars Technica (owned by Condé Nast) had some of the best reporting offering scathing criticism of Reddit (also owned by Condé Nast) while Steve Huffman was destroying the website by killing off the API and leaving volunteer moderators without the tools they need to deal with spam. I'm not sure how common this is, but it was refreshing to see journalists doing their job properly despite being faced with a massive conflict of interest.

jbm 3y ago
> Steve Huffman was destroying the website by killing off the API and leaving volunteer moderators Did this really happen? The site seems to be as busy as normal and with the same opinions being expressed everywhere. Don't get me wrong, I think that was a huge loss and I don't use Reddit anymore as a result.
- lmm 3y ago
  Reddit is noticeably less active and worse, at least the parts of it I'm in. Far short of "killing", but it did some damage.
  - DANmode 3y ago
    To the value for you. Is it making less money?/profit?, for Condé?
- lebean 3y ago
  [dead]
- creatonez 3y ago
  There has been a dramatic rise in spam and hate speech, starting the day of the first moderator strikes. This hasn't gone unnoticed by the community, you see this observation being made by people all over the site.

hackeraccount 3y ago

Up to a point Ars does what it takes to generate clicks. I can't tell if they post more nakedly political content now then they used to but whenever I see that sort of thing on the site it depresses me. Like a picture of scantily glad woman on a link (Will you see more if you click it? Who knows but there's one way to find out for sure ... ) the end result if it delivers or not is a vague feeling of being manipulated. That the editors think less of me then I'd like. But who knows, certainly the political stuff on it usually doesn't appeal to my politics so maybe it's just unhappiness that they don't share my views.