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[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Well his Y Combinator background does speak well of him, but the things that have happened lately at reddit imo really do not. I'm really super not a fan of the "boers aren't a minority what are you talking about" anti-abuse policy they put in. I've been disappointed by people I really looked up to before. I think I should keep evaluating people by their actions like any sane person. I guess if anything I feel a little sadder about YC if this is what their exec is participating in.

They do seem to be responding to user complaints though. They took some of those violent pornography subs off and they reinstated /r/detrans.

I guess we'll see. What would a YC exec be excited about? New tech possibilities for Reddit? Innovation? Growth opportunities? Is he excited about getting other "disadvantaged" people involved inclusively in tech? Why would he take the position if he was already YC CEO?

[–]magnora7 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Well, ycombinators whole thing is making companies that are functional and profitable.

So reddit is currently having problems because of this: https://www.marketplace.org/2020/02/05/advertisers-wanted-nothing-to-do-with-reddit-now-theyre-coming-back/

So they have to clean up their image, and they want to take it in a news.ycombinator.com direction. I imagine this guy is very familiar with running the forum, so that's why Huffman hired him. I bet they're paying him a LOT. But they're going to increase quality to make it look more like news.ycombinator.com and less like 4chan, so I expect these things to just keep tightening as they try and force that mold on to reddit. I imagine Seibel will basically seek to re-create new.ycombinator.com with slightly looser rules.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

One group dedicated to epiphanies people have in the shower, for example, has 19 million members. Another is dedicated to pictures of cats that look like loaves of bread.

It's those little heartwarming moments, lol! It feels so strange to have reddit culture described in an article like this. But, kindof heartwarming too.

news.ycombinator.com does seem to consistently have high-quality interesting discussion. Is it their algorithm? The community that's built around it? Are you sure Seibel was/is in charge of the form as CEO? Is it not a relatively small part of the YC company as a whole?

[–]magnora7 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I think Seibel wasn't the person who controlled the forum, but I'm sure he participated in moderating it and knew a lot about it.

Part of the quality is the community that's built around it. Part is the quality is the fact they censor I'd guess around 30% of comments to keep the quality high. Here on saidit we remove maybe 0.05% of comments or so. It's very easy to have a comment or post removed on news.ycombinator.com, it's much tighter than reddit. I think reddit removes maybe 2% of comments or so, and he's probably going to increase that to like 5% to get it closer to ycombinator's quality.