The moderators of Reddit’s IAmA community are significantly reducing the amount of work they do to help solicit and coordinate AMAs with celebrities and high-profile individuals.

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    1 year ago

    Another great bastion of reddit content has been felled.

    Another reason for redditors to leave and join Lemmy.

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    Honestly this is one of those things I’d be fine leaving on reddit. Celebrity worship is gross, and it was never very interesting. 5-6 simple questions answered, promotion of their new book/movie/show, and peace out.

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      I still fondly remember the days of Victoria helping with facilitating the AMAs. She had a great rapport with all the celebrities and really helped with getting good answers to questions from the community.

      I consider her termination to be the moment Reddit started going down the route of putting potential profits above the needs of the community.

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          And of course, as par for Reddit, it was one of the founders and then-chairman Alexis Ohanian behind it all and screwing the users. I’d like to think Aaron Swartz would be pissed and disappointed but unfortunately we’ll never know.

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      1 year ago

      Not me, bring it over here, I don’t read many but when I do I’d prefer it to be here now

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    I’ll be honest, once Victoria left, AMAs weren’t the same…

    Seeing the people who barely held it together walk off… I mean shit

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    I remember when Victoria was fired, the quality of all celebrity amas went down to shit and became glorified ads, such wasted potential

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        They really were, and her loss was immediately noticeable. While we say f-u/spez, we should never forget u/kn0thing and his fuckery with Victoria and the downward slide of Reddit.

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    This one is really a big deal and people don’t really take it so serious, this was actually something that would get a lot of attention for Reddit outside of Reddit. I wouldn’t be surprised if the Admins take over the subreddit long term to get that turned around or come up with another solution for it because while celebrity envy is gross it does attract the masses.

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    A lot of people criticising Mods didn’t understand how much extra they contribute, now people are going to find out.

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      1 year ago

      celeb AMAs are a consequence of huge user base… so it’ll be a while before we need to sort out which instance is to host

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    “But Reddit leadership has all the funds they need to hire people to perform those extra tasks we formerly undertook as volunteer moderators, and we’d be happy to collaborate with them if they choose to do so.”

    Hope they charge big bucks for that highly specialised training they’ve offered.

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      Seems like Reddit will have the income to pay those moderators. I’d love to see mods ask for compensation to run the site since they are now a for-profit organization.