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One Reddit Mod Cripples $23.5M Company [video]
- leakycap 1y agoA $23.5M company putting a single egg/risking anything relying on a reddit sub deserves to learn hard lessons about owning the space where you interface with customers
- nomilk 1y agoReddit is a powerful platform and if someone (esp a mod) writes (really) bad comments, pins unfavourable posts, and deletes favourable posts numbering in the thousands over a period of years, that information is going to show up when people seek information (e.g. via LLMs and search engines).
- leakycap 1y ago> Reddit is a powerful platform ... with a long and easily-researched history of account and subreddit suspensions, deletions, and closures for a myriad of reasons. Even without the obvious, known risk of a moderator action on reddit causing a company problems, they should have known better from the prior actions by reddit themselves.
- SilverElfin 1y agoPrevious discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45521920 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45521920