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It surprises me that something else hasn't come along as a more appropriate place for these AMA style sessions. Perhaps its the challenge of getting the audien
by netcraft 12y ago
It surprises me that something else hasn't come along as a more appropriate place for these AMA style sessions. Perhaps its the challenge of getting the audience, but theres many reasons why reddit really isn't ideal for these kinds of discussions. It works, sure - but the signal to noise ratio is really quite low and the politics of it mostly seem to just get in the way (see the Elon Musk AMA earlier this week where some of the highest voted questions were removed).
- chris_raptr 12y agoWhat questions were removed? How can I see them? Or were they just downvoted a lot?
- hellgas00 12y agoApparently the r/spacex community got together ahead of the AMA with Musk to come up with quality comments. During the AMA they worked together upvoting their questions to get the most visibility. The mods on r/AMA felt that this was against the rules, and crowded out the natural discussion, they subsequently deleted all posts from r/spacex. Sounds like a good idea, until you realize that they were very well thought out questions, head over heels better then the questions posed by the r/AMA community. I found the AMA to be underwhelming.
- justintbassett 12y agoSlight correction — it's r/IAmA.
- rndn 12y agoOn the other hand it's difficult to make exceptions in these cases. How do you define a comment that is worth what is otherwise regarded as a vote manipulation?