Re:Ask HN: PG's 'Do Things That Don't Scale' Manual Examples
by dangus on Thursday October 26, 2023 @10:07AM
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Please stick to facts when criticizing people.
This subreddit was created by an unpaid moderator, not a co-founder of Reddit.
Subreddit of the year is also a user poll, so that doesn’t necessarily imply endorsement by company leadership.
You also got the year wrong, it won in 2008. It was shut down in 2011.
Reddit does deserve a lot of criticism for knowingly keeping the sub and other sketchy ones around, supposedly in the name of “free speech.” But your statement is not accurate.
Whether this policy was naivety or more of a quiet but direct endorsement is up for debate. Obviously, Reddit had ample opportunity to take down this and other deplorable subreddits. They were not ignorant of their existence. At best they slow-walked the process, at worst their tolerance implied endorsement.
This subreddit was created by an unpaid moderator, not a co-founder of Reddit.
Subreddit of the year is also a user poll, so that doesn’t necessarily imply endorsement by company leadership.
You also got the year wrong, it won in 2008. It was shut down in 2011.
Reddit does deserve a lot of criticism for knowingly keeping the sub and other sketchy ones around, supposedly in the name of “free speech.” But your statement is not accurate.
Whether this policy was naivety or more of a quiet but direct endorsement is up for debate. Obviously, Reddit had ample opportunity to take down this and other deplorable subreddits. They were not ignorant of their existence. At best they slow-walked the process, at worst their tolerance implied endorsement.
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversial_Reddit_communiti...
https://www.gawker.com/5950981/unmasking-reddits-violentacre...