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).

"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.

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.

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.

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.

Awesome victim-blaming right there. Good grief.

The offensiveness of a large number of the comments that you have to scroll through while answering legitimate questions.

Haha steady now. He means peoples responses to their AMA.