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Seems like a purely anti-competitive move considering that Reddit is owned by Conde Nast and most of those sites blocked are direct competitors to Conde Naste's
by diogenescynic 14y ago
Seems like a purely anti-competitive move considering that Reddit is owned by Conde Nast and most of those sites blocked are direct competitors to Conde Naste's publications. Conflict of interest.
- mertd 14y agoI don't know if this changes anything but I think recently they moved up in the pecking order to be sister companies with CN. However banning competitors outright vs banning competitors that spam are two different things.
- creativityland 14y agoBut when and where do you draw the line? Here's the top comment from reddit... Not sure how to feel about this, on the one hand if they were cheating then blocking them makes sense, on the other hand, I don't see a public list, and this could be abused by admins to block unfavorable sources (maybe not the current admins, but who knows what batch of admins we'll get in the future?)
- prezjordan 14y agoReddit is no longer owned by Conde Nast and is now an independent company.
- owenkahn 14y agoAccording to Wikipedia, they share a parent company. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance_Publications http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance_Publications
- dailyrorschach 14y agoThis is interesting to me as someone who works for a subsidiary of a parent company, suffice to say we are very, very much in competition with a number of the other subsidiaries. This in turn is how the parent company benefits, by getting a slice from all of us. Not saying that's necessarily happening here, but figured worth pointing out.