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> Jesse Jackson had an AMA that did not go very well. Several of the most upvoted questions were simply disrespectful. I think anyone could have seen that comi
by nadams 11y ago
> Jesse Jackson had an AMA that did not go very well. Several of the most upvoted questions were simply disrespectful.
I think anyone could have seen that coming. Anonymous accounts with community voting and an API to boot? This is only asking for trouble - especially if the AMA was done by an individual who wasn't familiar with the personality of the community or internet etiquette in general. Assuming every other AMA was respectful/successful - they were just playing a game of russian roulette.
I'm surprised that celebrities even want to go on reddit - don't get wrong I love the idea of an exchange of comments between the common person and famous people but I certainly wouldn't want to do it on an anonymous posting site.
Edit: To the downvoters - I should point out that assuming that reddit has automated systems in place to detect fraudulent voting - someone with a botnet could easily defeat it. It's easy to detect when the same guy is upvotting posts from the same IP or same block of IPs - how do you detect that when the voting are coming from all over the world? It doesn't even have to be a botnet - how do you know that the android/ios game you just downloaded isn't making web service calls in the background to a site like reddit? If I was a bad guy - I would definitely outsource development of some useful app or game and embed my upvoting code into that once it becomes popular.
- baddox 11y agoPlenty of AMAs go really well, so you definitely need to look for a cause other than the fact that reddit has anonymous accounts and community voting.
- kelukelugames 11y agoPeople seem to hate Jesse Jackson on HN too. https://hn.algolia.com/?query=jesse%20jackson&sort=byPopularity&prefix&page=0&dateRange=all&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?query=jesse%20jackson&sort=byPopular...
- Crito 11y agoYeah, if we are being honest here, we can all stop pretending to wonder why the AMA went bad. It went bad because people just don't like the guy.
- jpgvm 11y agoHit the nail on the head. I am sure he is popular somewhere but I doubt he has any fans on Reddit/HN/etc given his political stance.
- mhomde 11y agoYeah, it's surprising there isn't any tools for vetting questions, and perhaps requiring accounts to have a certain age or karma... then again it kinda goes against the openness of reddit, which is nice and all but tends to break down when a site gets large enough
- Zigurd 11y ago> isn't any tools for vetting questions Questions get voted up or down. Either Reddit has a problem with being gamed and trolls can successfully get their questions upvoted, or that's what the audience wanted.
- rsync 11y agoTo the person talking about his downvotes: don't. Do not interrupt the discussion to meta-discuss the scoring system. Don't talk about your score or your votes.
- bentcorner 11y ago> I'm surprised that celebrities even want to go on reddit Some celebrities seem to be thriving on reddit. I've seen Arnold Schwarzneggar engage users on /r/fitness, and he has posted several videos (that tank one was one I saw recently) along with doing PR for his Terminator movie. Whoever is helping him along seems to be doing a great job.
- cowsandmilk 11y agoI would link to his reply a few days ago on /r/movies to someone seeing Terminator Genisys with their father, but the subreddit has gone dark. He got reddit gold, had a perfect response, and added a handwritten note (an effective way of showing that he was involved, not just his publicist). He has the team in place to be notified of these things and hit it out of the park.
- lagadu 11y ago> I'm surprised that celebrities even want to go on reddit Celebrity AMAs more often than not go really really well, even for controversial figures like Obama. Reddit just has a tendency to lash out at a) people who are obviously just using the site for PR (the Rampart AMA) and b) terrible people (Jesse Jackson) tend to go bad because people simply don't like them in general.