Thousands of subreddits chose to go dark in an ongoing protest over the company's plan to start charging certain third-party developers to access the site’s data.
Wow. Front page of huffpost.com right now. Interesting…
“Protest and dissent is important,” Huffman said. “The problem with this one is it’s not going to change anything because we made a business decision that we’re not negotiating on.”
Honestly, my reply to this particular statement is that maybe Reddit should die!
I’m not entirely sure that Steve Huffman understands how protests work. The whole point is you don’t have control over them, friendo.
You can’t just say but we made a business decision and expect people to just say welp guess we should give up, there’s no overcoming business decisions.
Bro has the personality of a turd and the charisma to match.
A good play might have been to buy it off Selig for a few million. But he’s so fucking unlikable and put his foot in his mouth dozens of times at this point that the power users are unlikely to back down. Reddit will limp along and lose another 40%+ valuation over the next few months as spez plows through his community to try and squeeze as much money as he can from the corpse not realizing he’s doing the opposite of what he needs to do.
If there’s no negotiating, fuck it, burn it down. We built it, we can unmake it, and that bastard can build it back up himself if he’s so damn set on making a profit of it.
He seems to think that the people want the shit that he and his dev team created. They don’t. People want the content of the site. And all he is succeeding in doing here is shoving away a good deal of it
“Protest and dissent is important,” Huffman said. “The problem with this one is it’s not going to change anything because we made a business decision that we’re not negotiating on.”
Honestly, my reply to this particular statement is that maybe Reddit should die!
I’m not entirely sure that Steve Huffman understands how protests work. The whole point is you don’t have control over them, friendo.
You can’t just say but we made a business decision and expect people to just say welp guess we should give up, there’s no overcoming business decisions.
Bro has the personality of a turd and the charisma to match.
A good play might have been to buy it off Selig for a few million. But he’s so fucking unlikable and put his foot in his mouth dozens of times at this point that the power users are unlikely to back down. Reddit will limp along and lose another 40%+ valuation over the next few months as spez plows through his community to try and squeeze as much money as he can from the corpse not realizing he’s doing the opposite of what he needs to do.
Gotta drive down the price to buy it and musk it
“Alright boys, you heard him. He said the magic word. Let’s pack our things and get out of here.”
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That’s really the only thing left at this point.
If there’s no negotiating, fuck it, burn it down. We built it, we can unmake it, and that bastard can build it back up himself if he’s so damn set on making a profit of it.
He seems to think that the people want the shit that he and his dev team created. They don’t. People want the content of the site. And all he is succeeding in doing here is shoving away a good deal of it
Well put…
“Your business decision is making people HATE you”
At this point, it needs to.
He’s counter-protesting