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Reddit communities with millions of followers plan to extend the blackout indefinitely (www.theverge.com)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/technology@beehaw.org
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[–] 15 points 3 years ago (5 children)

Reddit’s CEO said he expects this blowup will pass eventually.

This was precisely the wrong thing for him to say if he wanted that to happen

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    He expects so because he's going to have his admin staff de-mod all the rebels, open the subs back up, and ruthlessly ban anyone who says a word about the controversy. The user population that remains will eventually go back to sleep, and all will be well in Reddit-land.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Lol good luck finding new mods that will be any good after pulling a stunt like that. They certainly aren’t going to pay for any either.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    The News and Worldnews subreddits prove there are people still willing to lick Spez's boots.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    That's because spazzy spez didn't think his internal memo would leak.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (2 children)

    Nah I think it's clear he wanted it to leak. He's just an egomaniac who thinks he's actually a good leader. That section of the memo was for investor confidence. (It'll pass, no revenue effect so far, etc.) The other part about warning employees not to wear Reddit gear in public for fear of violence was meant for the press and for the uninformed, to try to garner sympathy and paint the protestors as bad actors.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Obvious tactic, paint the other side as violent and you'll get sympathy. Won't someone please think of the corporation.

    Make no mistake, spez would love to see someone in a reddit tshirt beat up on the street. He'd be able to plaster that everywhere he could showing how sad his side is

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    A false flag is a typical right wing move. I can picture spez doing it. He should pick some kid name Aaron just to make it that much more spiteful.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    It's working, too. The Forbes article which I saw posted either here or on Kbin didn't even push back on Huffman's claim that traffic from LLMs was the reason for the price hike, and I haven't seen any big publication use the audio or transcripts showing a slam-dunk case of slander (or libel, whichever one applies to text) against the Apollo developer.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago*

    The problem with the libel/slander is unless it falls into a few categories of what's called per se defamation, you're required to prove damages. (From the libel's/slander's damage to your reputation, not from something like Reddit's API change destroying his business.)

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    The other part about warning employees not to wear Reddit gear in public for fear of violence was meant for the press and for the uninformed, to try to garner sympathy and paint the protestors as bad actors.

    Glad people aren't blind to this obvious ploy. When LGBT violence is at an all time high I don't think you need to be worried about wearing a reddit shirt.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    I mean, the charitable read is the CEO of the company reassuring the entire company that they'll be OK. That's his entire job. Yes, it's a pretty crappy thing to say but we all weren't the intended audience. He's there to rally the troops and keep morale up.

    That said, fuck u/spez and I'm way happier over here than there.

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