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Re:I’m Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Fo... by grimlck on Monday February 11, 2013 @02:17PM (#5202658)
I really wish reddit had a better interface to see the questions and Bill's answers all at once without scrolling through random comments.

Why hasn't reddit's AMA been surpassed by a dedicated AMA site with a user interface designed for AMA?

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Re:I’m Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Fo... by georgemcbay on Monday February 11, 2013 @03:32PM (#5203030)
The same reason craigslist classified haven't been surpassed by a more modern system -- it is much easier for everyone to live with the shortcomings (which really aren't that bad) than it would be to recreate an equivalently large, diverse and vibrant community on another site.

Especially since any focused site that came up to do this would almost certainly put way more barriers to entry into the community than reddit (which still allows you to create a new account virtually instantly, with no email verification) has.

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Re:I’m Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Fo... by kmfrk on Monday February 11, 2013 @03:02PM (#5202893)
Remember http://formspring.me?

I think there just aren't enough interesting people doing Q&As for a business model based on this to make much sense.

Reddit's AMA format is pretty bad, especially if it's a woman/girl answering questions, though.

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Re:I’m Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Fo... by weisser on Monday February 11, 2013 @03:37PM (#5203054)
voomly is building a business model around Q&A...

voomly.com

Fred Wilson wrote about them here: http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2013/01/voomly.html

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Re:I’m Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Fo... by andrewguenther on Monday February 11, 2013 @03:30PM (#5203019)
I'm curious what someone's sex has to do with their ability to conduct an AMA...
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Re:I’m Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Fo... by georgemcbay on Monday February 11, 2013 @03:37PM (#5203056)
I think what he meant is that if a girl is giving an AMA she gets a lot of off topic "wow you're hot" type posts from the peanut gallery, something that wouldn't happen if the system were more moderated. OTOH, the lack of moderation is part of the charm of AMAs IMO even though it does result in the trolls being trolls.

(The "Woody Harrelson"/Rampart AMAs would be the norm if not for the chaotic nature of reddit).

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Re:I’m Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Fo... by kmfrk on Monday February 11, 2013 @04:24PM (#5203351)
"Charming", sure. Must be great for women to sift through comments like

    I would like to marry you... or just buy a pair of your
    used undies. It's funny that people actually do that.
http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/17yd4k/iam_emmy_rossum...

Just hi-larious.

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Re:I’m Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Fo... by georgemcbay on Monday February 11, 2013 @04:36PM (#5203446)
I'm not suggesting they are all charming, some of them are pretty terrible, but that's the price you pay for having relatively free speech. While moderating the questions would eliminate posts like the one you linked, it would also eliminate ones which aren't terrible but are certainly "off the script" of what would be asked if everything were cleanly moderated.
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Re:I’m Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Fo... by kmfrk on Monday February 11, 2013 @04:37PM (#5203457)
I don't see anything to support that.

And if it's a trade-off where more "impulsive" comments are deleted, then I prefer that to subjecting female respondents to constant come-ons from pubescent, sad human beings.

I think it's clear what Emmy Rossum prefers.

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Re:I’m Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Fo... by fyi80 on Monday February 11, 2013 @06:10PM (#5204022)
It seems that Emmy Rossum prefered Reddit's version, not the version you prefer.

Emmy Rossum went to reddit for an AMA, and used the site's commenting functionality to ask people not to be rude. She did not cancel her AMA, ask to have the rude comments deleted, etc.

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Re:I’m Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Fo... by kmfrk on Monday February 11, 2013 @07:02PM (#5204302)
Awesome victim-blaming right there. Good grief.
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Re:I’m Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Fo... by sanswork on Monday February 11, 2013 @03:40PM (#5203065)
The offensiveness of a large number of the comments that you have to scroll through while answering legitimate questions.
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Re:I’m Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Fo... by StuieK on Monday February 11, 2013 @03:35PM (#5203043)
Haha steady now. He means peoples responses to their AMA.
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Re:I’m Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Fo... by jpadkins on Monday February 11, 2013 @03:22PM (#5202982)
http://www.reddit.com/user/thisisbillgates

Not the best interface, but it is what you asked for...

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Re:I’m Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Fo... by riffplay on Monday February 11, 2013 @03:05PM (#5202903)
I am just viewing his comments page: http://www.reddit.com/user/thisisbillgates/comments/

The context link will show the comment he is replying to.

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Re:I’m Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Fo... by arcatek on Monday February 11, 2013 @02:20PM (#5202669)
You will be able to use http://www.topiama.com when the topic will have been crawled.
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Re:I’m Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Fo... by SriramR on Monday February 11, 2013 @02:57PM (#5202871)
It takes a while for the scraper to kick in, but this is what you are looking for: http://www.reddit.com/r/tabled/
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Re:I’m Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Fo... by skeletonjelly on Monday February 11, 2013 @06:11PM (#5204032)
Even though I hate it, install the Reddit Enhancement Suite extension and enable the comment navigator and navigate via submitter. Or ctrl-f for "[s]"
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Re:I’m Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Fo... by 6thSigma on Monday February 11, 2013 @02:21PM (#5202682)
Chicken and the egg problem.
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Re:I’m Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Fo... by ihuman on Monday February 11, 2013 @08:02PM (#5204534)
I have the "Reddit Enhancement Suite" extension installed, and it allows me to jump to each comment he responds to. If you are a frequent redditor, I recommend installing it.
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Re:I’m Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Fo... by jbert on Monday February 11, 2013 @04:51PM (#5203533)
Page search for '[s]' to find comments by the submitter.
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Re:I’m Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Fo... by fyi80 on Monday February 11, 2013 @05:59PM (#5203964)
http://reddit.com/r/tabled, after a few hours.
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