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Reddit's true corporate philosophy looks simple. These appear to be the 2 immutable laws of Reddit, and everything else follows naturally from them: 1. Anythin

Reddit's true corporate philosophy looks simple. These appear to be the 2 immutable laws of Reddit, and everything else follows naturally from them: 1. Anything goes 2. Unless it causes immediate and obvious harm to Reddit I think the mission statements from Reddit's CEO are a torturous attempt to construct a grand community vision that embodies these laws. He might say it's the other way around, and the laws grew out of the vision, but I think these laws are shaped mainly by the economic and business realities of managing a huge community on an understaffed shoestring.

jacquesm 12y ago
They might end up finding out that they violated '2'. The collective ability of the celebrities involved to sue reddit into the ground should not be under-estimated. And it is a pity that that is what would set limits on abuses like this, such limits ought to be set based on what every idiot could see was unauthorized publication of very private information, rather than that the financial capabilities of the victims would make the difference.
- broodbucket 12y ago
  I'm not so sure about this. Reddit doesn't host media. I'm not a lawyer, but I don't think "some people who use their site posted a link to another website, which has the illegal media" would cause significant damage to Reddit.
  - jacquesm 12y ago
    That's roughly the situation the pirate bay is in.
  - RubyPinch 12y ago
    when it comes to damage-legal-teams-can-cause, I'm always reminded of Sony vs That-guy-who-cracked-ps3-stuff. apparently they kept calling him at all hours of the night, of course he had to listen to each call. if he let 1 valid call go unresponded, then that would be a mark against him. regardless, the reasons were detailed here: http://redd.it/2fpdax http://redd.it/2fpdax, it was a multitude of issues and it even surprised some reddit admins
  - DanBC 12y ago
    Reddit hosts thumbnails. Edit: and legally that puts them in some risk.

jacquesm 12y ago

They might end up finding out that they violated '2'. The collective ability of the celebrities involved to sue reddit into the ground should not be under-estimated. And it is a pity that that is what would set limits on abuses like this, such limits ought to be set based on what every idiot could see was unauthorized publication of very private information, rather than that the financial capabilities of the victims would make the difference.

broodbucket 12y ago
I'm not so sure about this. Reddit doesn't host media. I'm not a lawyer, but I don't think "some people who use their site posted a link to another website, which has the illegal media" would cause significant damage to Reddit.
- jacquesm 12y ago
  That's roughly the situation the pirate bay is in.
- RubyPinch 12y ago
  when it comes to damage-legal-teams-can-cause, I'm always reminded of Sony vs That-guy-who-cracked-ps3-stuff. apparently they kept calling him at all hours of the night, of course he had to listen to each call. if he let 1 valid call go unresponded, then that would be a mark against him. regardless, the reasons were detailed here: http://redd.it/2fpdax http://redd.it/2fpdax, it was a multitude of issues and it even surprised some reddit admins
- DanBC 12y ago
  Reddit hosts thumbnails. Edit: and legally that puts them in some risk.