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I'm stunned there was staff to lay off. I've seen such disappointing vitriol in the comments of the main MetaFilter that I stopped reading it long ago. I do c
by massysett 12y ago
I'm stunned there was staff to lay off.
I've seen such disappointing vitriol in the comments of the main MetaFilter that I stopped reading it long ago. I do continue to drop by Ask, though. I'm surprised there was anything on MetaFilter that required so many full-time staff and looking back on years of reading MetaFilter still doesn't give me any appreciation for what they must have been doing. In particular, the quality of comment moderation on the main MetaFilter did not, to me, reflect the level of quality one would expect from several full-time staff.
- oskarth 12y agoI think you severely underestimate the effort it takes to run and maintain a successful community site.
- mynameishere 12y agodoesn't give me any appreciation for what they must have been doing I suppose if they made a commitment to having one employee moderating at all times, that would take at least four employees, and even then it would require overtime and some funny scheduling. Imagine if reddit replaced the little arrows with salaried people deciding the fate of every post. It would take 100s of staff.