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Every thread turns into a fuckbot thread in the end, doesn't it. I mean I suppose if any thread it should be this one seeing how it's not actually anything interesting anyway.
 
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Have you heard that Pao left?

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Jashinist said:
it's just so weird that they haven't found a way to make money from it
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Their userbase is one of the largest collections of fickle winey tech savvy nerds going. That's the problem, they can only really get away with 1 MPU (industry name for squarish ad unit) in the side bar that most of their audience is smart enough to block anyway.

It's not like youtube or facebook which are pleb havens where you can cram ads into every facet and people don't care or notice. If you put an ad at the top of reddit there would be uproar and even more adblock.

Also typical fucking Redditors to act ike "YAY WE DID IT!!!" when Pao isn't even leaving just moving to a different position.
 
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tepid said:
Also typical fucking Redditors to act ike "YAY WE DID IT!!!" when Pao isn't even leaving just moving to a different position.
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I might be premature, but I'm calling my prediction on it being right. The unpopular policies will stay and Pao goes, having been the designated "interim CEO" fall guy for what they already knew would be unpopular.
 
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AnOminous said:
I might be premature, but I'm calling my prediction on it being right. The unpopular policies will stay and Pao goes, having been the designated "interim CEO" fall guy for what they already knew would be unpopular.
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I don't think this is evidence of a plan. It is the nature of SJWs to cannibalize their own.

Regardless wether or not it was planned, it demonstrates complete disregard for the company. You don't set out to alienate customers. You don't spend money to try to make less money.
 
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the most funny thing is how the SJW are trying to reduce the damage, they are not bitching about how pao was "removed", they are bitching now because the new ceo is white and male
 
Valiant said:
You can't please reddit because reddit is not just one community.
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Sure you can please reddit. You continue offering individual redditors all the things which pleased them about the website in the first place.
 
PeteyCoffee said:
I don't think this is evidence of a plan. It is the nature of SJWs to cannibalize their own.

Regardless wether or not it was planned, it demonstrates complete disregard for the company. You don't set out to alienate customers. You don't spend money to try to make less money.
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They're trying to make more. They just don't know how to do that.
 
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AnOminous said:
They're trying to make more. They just don't know how to do that.
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I don't think it's even possible, not at the level they clearly want. All things considered it is just a message board. You're not going to charge membership, people will leave for clones. Some advertising might work, maybe some specific boards that are promoted for some companies, but by in large people will ignore those. I still don't see how switching to video AMAs would help... I guess maybe if they expected companies to pay to have their talent in an AMA but-- that's just a press junket where you wait a little while for the questions to show up.
 
FatNero said:
I don't think it's even possible, not at the level they clearly want. All things considered it is just a message board. You're not going to charge membership, people will leave for clones. Some advertising might work, maybe some specific boards that are promoted for some companies, but by in large people will ignore those. I still don't see how switching to video AMAs would help... I guess maybe if they expected companies to pay to have their talent in an AMA but-- that's just a press junket where you wait a little while for the questions to show up.
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Another thing is agents are very picky about what kind of video of their clients they allow. It's one thing to have a disastrous AMA like Woody Harrelson's taking place in text. It's entirely another to have your client flipping out on video, because that will show up on TV all over the place.

So it's no longer an AMA, it's an ask-me-these-pre-approved-questions.

And there are plenty of places, like traditional TV talk shows, that already do that shit just fine. Nobody needs reddit doing it.
 
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AnOminous said:
Another thing is agents are very picky about what kind of video of their clients they allow. It's one thing to have a disastrous AMA like Woody Harrelson's taking place in text. It's entirely another to have your client flipping out on video, because that will show up on TV all over the place.

So it's no longer an AMA, it's an ask-me-these-pre-approved-questions.

And there are plenty of places, like traditional TV talk shows, that already do that shit just fine. Nobody needs reddit doing it.
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I don't see reddit becoming a massively profitable resource. Promoted topics and targets ads on a sidebar are about the best they can hope for. But for some reason they are determined to look at reddit as something other than a popular message board.
 
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