Summary of Reddit CEO u/spez' responses
Summary of Reddit CEO u/spez' responses
5 and a half years ago EA held an AMA so disastrous that it was unreadable as downvotes pummelling the answering producers and directors to the...
They're getting voted into oblivion on the AMA, but u/ChariotWheel is helpfully cut-and-pasting and formatting them here.
He may not get the most downvoted comment in reddit history. But Spez is likely to end up with the most brutal AMA in history...
"Thank you for all the years of hardwork single handedly creating the greatest platform and gracing us with your presence here today. With regards to the api changes and third party apps, I was just wondering if you had started the process of going and fucking yourself? you greedy little pigboy." -u/OoooThatsTheSpot
He screwed up so bad, and it's obvious he's quite stupid...I'm wondering if he was given the Ellen Poa treatment. The investor's knew what changes they wanted to implement to increase revenue, had him implement it, then made him take all the flak. Next, they'll replace spez with someone else, seemingly roll back a few of the changes, and say they're working with the reddit community. The thing is that it's obvious that reddit is irreparably infected. The diseases cannot be eradicated because the disease is corporate greed. Reddit began its time in hospice the moment they shared they were going public. It's over. Done. Say you final goodbyes. RIP in pieces.
I agree. No way any investor is actually gonna want that dipshit to be running the company
I think they WILL want it anyway, but that's why I'm here :)
That's a good take. When I worked in IT for a big company, they brought in a new CIO that was brought in specifically to outsource all of internal IT. After that was complete he retired a rich man.
API access aside, reddit has other extremely serious problems. The head of the fish began to rot severely a couple of years ago when mods were directed to purge undesirables from the platform.
I personally had a 10 year old account permanently banned for a joke in a literal comedy subreddit that a mod did not like. Not a racist joke, or a homophobic joke, or a sexist joke...just a joke that they did not care for.
That account had contributed hundreds of long-form posts and well researched comments to my interest groups over the years and it was banned with zero genuine recourse to get it back.
I will not be returning to that platform because it is too risky. Literally years of research, editing and content creation up in smoke because a single mod didn't like what I had to say in an unrelated community. The way that moderation is run on reddit has become insane.
The fediverse and lemmy need to address this issue now whilst the platform is in its infancy and decide where they stand, and how communities will be moderated.
From my own perspective I believe people have a right to moderate their own community as they see fit, but there should not be any such thing as a sitewide permanent ban for any reason at all - and mods should think twice about permanent banning people from any community.
If you exclude 'undesirables' from the conversation, you deny the opportunity for discourse. You deny the opportunity to prove them wrong with evidence, and you shunt them into echo chambers where their bad ideas can prosper and be amplified by like-minded individuals. It's the most unproductive and childish way to handle anything.
I guess what I'm saying is, I am extremely pro free-speech and if I get the slightest wiff that this isn't the place for me or that single individuals are being empowered to control the discourse on any given topic then I'm gone from here too.
I personally had a 10 year old account permanently banned for a joke in a literal comedy subreddit that a mod did not like. Not a racist joke, or a homophobic joke, or a sexist joke...just a joke that they did not care for.
Same! My last account of like 5 years with lots of helpful contributions throughout the site was perma-banned for a joke a mod did not like. It didn't violate any of the rules, and it wasn't even my joke. It was a referring to a joke from SOuth Park.
I think that reddit already had problems and the API issue catalyzed the demise. Even if the API issue were resolved 100%, I'm done with that site. It became toxic.
Someone replied to him with "Aaron would be ashamed of the person you've become" and I've never seen such a succinct destruction of a human being in a long time. Shame Steve has no soul.
Looking through the AMA feels like talking to an ex, after you both already know it's over and there is no coming back.
God damn, its a fricking shit show. I love it.
He doesn’t seem to understand that when it’s his word against Christian’s, we will trust the person who has demonstrated a history of caring about engaging with the community and producing good work, AND who happens to have brought the receipts.
The kicker here is he could have done this at any time, but only chose to do so after that shit whistle decided to drag his name through the mud. Christian has been a class act through all of this.
"we're working on" "we’re not 100% sure we’re happy with" "could be interesting someday" "we haven’t figured out yet"
Maybe you should have figured all of this out before you asked for developers to pay absorbent amounts and shift more people on to your official apps?
I love your typo/autocorrect. "Absorbant" amounts. I picture huge piles of money being used as sponges but not doing anything useful.
It's crazy hearing how nonresponsive the reddit team has been to 3rd party devs.
Especially the constant "oops our bad plz reach out again this time we'll respond we promise :)" bullshit.
Hahaha. I swear.
They really seem like they made the decision internally to force everyone into their own app and kill off as many third party apps as possible, presumably for data collection/analytics. That would explain why they're quietly ignoring third party app devs and other alternative solutions (like the paid user API key solution discussed elsewhere).
Seeing that thread made me get over leaving reddit, I do have to thank spez for that
Same, seeing him blatantly slander the Apollo dev sealed the deal for me. My account is still active, but come June 30th, it's gone.
The quality of his answers, considering the scope of the conversation, was extremely lacking.
Yeah, this is definitely a watershed moment for me. I knew it'd be bad, but I didn't know it'd be "openly admit to not caring about users and only care about money, continue to lie about someone when they have a literal recording of you" level of bad
I knew it'd be bad, but I didn't know it'd be "openly admit to not caring about users and only care about money, continue to lie about someone when they have a literal recording of you" level of bad
And this shows that from now on, it's only going to get worse.
Same reasons here also.
Steve actually doubled down on the blackmail accusation when we have to recording, my god this is some juicy drama.
"We are not profitable" -CEO of a company that is about to IPO
... Weird flex but okay.
While failing to mention the contribution that third party apps made to reddit’s popularity.
They also promised to support third party clients for a long time - classic bait and switch.
Wow. Just. Wow.
It's like he thinks he can do no wrong, and everyone else is the problem.
I bet he doesn't wipe.
Typical narcissist tbh
What a joke of an AMA, those answers were pathetic.
Reading this from kbin, because he gave me the push... should i actually thank u/spez?
yup. reddit has been really trash for years now. i appreciate the push to find better communities
I’ve been unhappy with Reddit for a while. This is the kick in the ass I needed. So far I like kbin the best out of everything I’ve tried.
Same with me, most of my personal network is all 3rd party based so I'll point them at lemmy or here.
I just went through and downvoted all his responses. They’re all pathetic
The guy was named Steve. Why are the dousches always named Steve.
All three of them!? You madman!
What a shitshow
love witnessing this historic collapse, i'm actually hopeful the planned 48 hour+ shutdown will do enough damage to migrate power users to other platforms.
The Ama was enough for me, I'm keeping my reddit account active before a delete and scrub on the 28th just to . . . IDK watch the world burn and comment on it.
/r/EDH had a post right after the AMA saying they're starting their 48 hour shutdown early and are locking every post in the sub and making it to where only mods can post until reddit comes to their senses.
I'm curious if more subreddits will follow suit.
Couldn't find any responses without this link. What an unmitigated disaster.
Summary of responses: whining and lying