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Summary of Reddit CEO u/spez' responses (old.reddit.com)
submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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They're getting voted into oblivion on the AMA, but u/ChariotWheel is helpfully cut-and-pasting and formatting them here.

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Did he answer that? 🤣

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I wish! He hasn’t answered anything but softball questions I can only assume were posted by his mom and secretary.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Which were initially prefixed with A:, as if he copy-pasted premade answers from a spreadsheet or a word document 🤣

https://archive.ph/X6EJq

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

Oh my god, that's rich!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Honestly, I don't see this issue with that - having preprepared answers to make sure they're accurate (though that doesn't appear to have been the reason in this case...) etc is a reasonable thing for an AMA like that

I think the substance (or often honestly lack thereof) of those responses is much more the problem, together with not actually addressing most of the questions that were responded to properly (and I'm honestly just confused by the decision process by Reddit's leadership in general tbh as it was rather foreseeable not to end well. Kinda wish Reddit will die from this hoping a lot of the communities I care about migrate to something like Lemmy instead; but I'm not holding my breath)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

If you have pre-answered questions then it's not an AMA, it's an announcement or a press release. An AMA requires the communication to go both ways, and he didn't answer anything he was unprepared for