Reddit CEO warns users: "We know your dark secrets'
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Steve Huffman warned that the company know more about their users than they might think
    • Stern@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Misleading. At the point he was made a mod, the invite system didn’t exist so you could just make people mods whenever you wanted. He might not have even noticed depending on how active his inbox was or how active he was.

      The better questions would be why it wasn’t banned after being nominated for subreddit of the year, and only got the axe after international attention via the Anderson Cooper segment.

      Its not that he loved the subreddit, his (and by extension reddit corp) sociopathic ass simply views all that stuff as page views whether its memes, cp, or whatever. MBA cancer looking at everything as numbers.

      • Zak@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        4 months ago

        Reddit, and the early 2000s Internet culture that spawned it had a more absolute view of free speech than the modern consensus. Reddit’s rules were pretty much limited to:

        • Don’t post things that are actually illegal to post
        • Don’t break Reddit

        The introduction of any other sitewide rules was controversial with the userbase at the time, and not because the average user was a creep who wanted to see teenagers in bikinis. People predicted (correctly) that other topics like piracy and darknet markets would eventually end up banned as Reddit tried to become more palatable to advertisers. People remain concerned that pornography will be banned or severely limited.

        Its not that he loved the subreddit, his (and by extension reddit corp) sociopathic ass simply views all that stuff as page views

        Let’s be fair to spez; there’s plenty to criticize him for, but he did not work at Reddit between roughly 2008 and 2016 when the jailbait controversy came up.