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As a five-year Redditor, this is an awesome question, but I have two potential ways to better ask it: 1. I wouldn't ask about a billion horrible people. Don't
by jsmthrowaway 12y ago
As a five-year Redditor, this is an awesome question, but I have two potential ways to better ask it:
1. I wouldn't ask about a billion horrible people. Don't forget that the user number reflects logged-out consumers, and Reddit is still limited to far fewer participants. The demographics of people that choose to make an account and participate are very likely strongly disconnected from the circumstances required to make Reddit a billion-eyeball property. Maybe a better question would be "what can Reddit do to appeal to participation from non-teenaged and non-twentysomething white males who think /r/spacedicks is funny?"
2. I wouldn't ask about his perspective on things like coontown from the perspective of an investment, I'd ask him his thoughts on controversial speech on Reddit in general, as well as Reddit's responsibilities to act in the service of protecting free speech. /r/coontown is only the latest. Don't forget there was /r/jailbait before it and the banning of all Zoe Quinn discussion and subreddits, as well as vast numbers of communities that you and I both will not mention that are even worse than those already named.
(Warning to those unfamiliar with Reddit: please do not investigate things like spacedicks or coontown if you are sensitive.)