DiscussionWould you be fine with a Fox News interview about this website?

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[–][deleted] 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Oh god no.

None of us are trained in media/public relations, and none of us have the slightest bit of desire to no longer be anonymous.

Plus, American media is basically propaganda machines these days, whether choosing the left or the right. It's very difficult to find neutral ground, if that even exists, and it would be negative optics to be represented by Fox News. It would also be poorly received by people who already hate us - they would see it as "evidence" that we're the alt-right psy-op organization they already believe we are.

If we were an established charity or something like LGB Alliance, perhaps, but even then it would take very specific people to do the interview and not get run over. Us mods (and all of you) would also have to be prepared for an explosion of activity, which we're not.

[–]reluctant_commenter 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Completely agree with your comment, couldn't have said it better.

Especially this, I think some people on this thread are forgetting/not noticing this point:

It would also be poorly received by people who already hate us - they would see it as "evidence" that we're the alt-right psy-op organization they already believe we are.

Us mods (and all of you) would also have to be prepared for an explosion of activity, which we're not.

Good point. Thanks for modding :)

[–]CancelPowerSuper Bi Male[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

None of us are trained in media/public relations, and none of us have the slightest bit of desire to no longer be anonymous.

That's fair. Well, the first part is manageable I think, I'm pretty sure we can figure out somebody who knows how to deal with these things, the second part though is a great point. I totally forgot about the risk and danger of losing our anonymous status to talk about a controversial topic on air, whoever's going to be interviewed will face severe consequences unless they are ready for it I'm sure.

At the end of the day, it's all a hypothetical situation. I highly doubt any interview will happen with this site since it's not nearly popular enough (r/antwork, as an example, had 1.8 million subscribers and was the fastest growing subreddit) It was just fun to know people's opinions on it.

[–][deleted] 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

We discussed it back when we first got banned from Reddit, and all of us (mods I mean) agreed that we weren't willing to do any interviews. Even if we talked to someone friendly like Benjamin Boyce, it would have to be on the condition of no webcam and a voice scrambler or a narrator speaking for us. Some of us have a lot to lose, and it wasn't worth the risk.