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Seriously thinking this was a result of the Jesse Jackson interview. Likely the new Reddit is going to cater to celebrities and politicians in such a way that t

Seriously thinking this was a result of the Jesse Jackson interview. Likely the new Reddit is going to cater to celebrities and politicians in such a way that the idea of AMA isn't going to be unfiltered anymore. I would expect them to sell AMAs that are wholly staged/filtered/etc just like any political press conference. With the upcoming elections its to be expected, the slant of the current reddit is very obvious and its a new SJW paradise of late.

puredemo 11y ago
Karmanaut is one of the few default mods who allows fairly "contentious" comments to stay up. As long as he is top mod of /r/IAmA I don't think that will change.
- minimaxir 11y ago
  Given that Reddit just nearly imploded due to "censorship," this is probably a fair policy.
  - mikeyouse 11y ago
    There was a lot of noise about censorship but I think 'nearly imploded' is a bit dramatic.. There was no noticeable decrease in traffic or uniques: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/about/traffic https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/about/traffic (Some data was lost from DB corruption, but if you add back round numbers, they're right on trend again)
    - minimaxir 11y ago
      That was purposefully hyperbolic. :P The dramawave of more perceived censorship would actually be somewhat funny.
minimaxir 11y ago
What's odd is that it was the Jesse Jackson AMA that was the straw that broke the camel's back, so to speak. There have been far worse AMAs than that. (e.g. the infamous Woody Harrelson Rampart AMA) /r/amadisasters has a good list of them: http://www.reddit.com/r/amadisasters http://www.reddit.com/r/amadisasters EDIT: Response from Alexis: https://np.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/3bw39q/why_has_riama_been_set_to_private/csq6ekp https://np.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/3bw39q/why_has...
- alexanderh 11y ago
  Ellen Pao didn't become interim CEO until November 2014, and it took a while still to start enacting her plan... So its not that odd that this was finally the one that broke the camels back, considering the timeline of who's been CEO when.
- jug 11y ago
  I remember Microsoft's AMA. I agreed with many sentiments but felt sad for Microsoft PR in the end. If this was the final straw of "mishandled AMA's" (seriously? what does AMA stand for again? don't go there if your kind of celebrity status / personality can't handle this elegantly), I think it had to do with the sensitive nature of religion. I don't doubt Jesse Jackson's team have capacity to put some pressure on reddit. Ugh. Then again, just speculation. Part of the problem is that they aren't speaking.
NathanCH 11y ago
Reddit is really going down the toilet.
vogt 11y ago
I agree with just about everything you said except for Reddit being an SJW paradise. There's definitely a loud contingent of them but most of the main board threads on controversial topics slant pretty far in the opposite direction. Your milage will vary by which subreddits you hang out in, though.

puredemo 11y ago

Karmanaut is one of the few default mods who allows fairly "contentious" comments to stay up. As long as he is top mod of /r/IAmA I don't think that will change.

minimaxir 11y ago
Given that Reddit just nearly imploded due to "censorship," this is probably a fair policy.
- mikeyouse 11y ago
  There was a lot of noise about censorship but I think 'nearly imploded' is a bit dramatic.. There was no noticeable decrease in traffic or uniques: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/about/traffic https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/about/traffic (Some data was lost from DB corruption, but if you add back round numbers, they're right on trend again)
  - minimaxir 11y ago
    That was purposefully hyperbolic. :P The dramawave of more perceived censorship would actually be somewhat funny.

minimaxir 11y ago

What's odd is that it was the Jesse Jackson AMA that was the straw that broke the camel's back, so to speak. There have been far worse AMAs than that. (e.g. the infamous Woody Harrelson Rampart AMA) /r/amadisasters has a good list of them: http://www.reddit.com/r/amadisasters http://www.reddit.com/r/amadisasters EDIT: Response from Alexis: https://np.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/3bw39q/why_has_riama_been_set_to_private/csq6ekp https://np.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/3bw39q/why_has...

alexanderh 11y ago
Ellen Pao didn't become interim CEO until November 2014, and it took a while still to start enacting her plan... So its not that odd that this was finally the one that broke the camels back, considering the timeline of who's been CEO when.
jug 11y ago
I remember Microsoft's AMA. I agreed with many sentiments but felt sad for Microsoft PR in the end. If this was the final straw of "mishandled AMA's" (seriously? what does AMA stand for again? don't go there if your kind of celebrity status / personality can't handle this elegantly), I think it had to do with the sensitive nature of religion. I don't doubt Jesse Jackson's team have capacity to put some pressure on reddit. Ugh. Then again, just speculation. Part of the problem is that they aren't speaking.

NathanCH 11y ago

Reddit is really going down the toilet.

vogt 11y ago

I agree with just about everything you said except for Reddit being an SJW paradise. There's definitely a loud contingent of them but most of the main board threads on controversial topics slant pretty far in the opposite direction. Your milage will vary by which subreddits you hang out in, though.