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That's an interesting point, but my read on Huffman's original comment is that it's more for market reasons. I work in the ad tech industry, and my read is tha
by munchbunny 11y ago
That's an interesting point, but my read on Huffman's original comment is that it's more for market reasons.
I work in the ad tech industry, and my read is that this is Huffman trying to assure brands that Reddit is a reputable venue for advertising. For example, most major brands are VERY skittish about going anywhere near family unfriendly content because they don't want to be associated with a questionable site.
From this perspective, accidentally giving toxic users an ad-free experience (a small thing) is a worthwhile tradeoff if it means you can attract the big advertisers (a huge thing).
- MBCook 11y agoI wonder if this is good enough for advertisers. The problem content is still there, is still hosted on the site they're paying money to. Someone can still say 'Walmart is supporting a site full of hate speech' if they advertise and be right.
- davidgerard 11y agoUnfortunately, it will remain a true statement that "Reddit hosts the largest white-nationalist forum on the Internet" (just /r/coontown alone already has nearly the pageviews of Stormfront). It is literally true that every advertising dollar will be supporting Nazis. That's not going to be an easy sell.