Reddit probably won't fall down, but this particular instance is where I pack my bags and leave. To be frank, not a huge fan of corporate culture, and that is exactly what seems to be happening with Reddit. Understand the need to monetize, but appears as though they are looking to go back on the whole 'end-user determines their content' philosophy. Oh, and transparency.
Nothing to protest-
Anyways like the feel of the site, very impressed with it's style, needs some growth, but that will come I'm sure.
Looking at the team-page now, there's hardly a handful of community-people left, and a whole lot of users that have a "Verified email" or "One-year club" badges, only having signed up after getting a job (or if they were savvy, having signed up prior to applying for a job).
Once upon a time, the site was run by people who were lucky enough to have reddit as a full time job. Now it's a bunch of people who are trying to find out how to make money from the couple of millions of pairs of eyeballs that look at their site every day.
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Reddit probably won't fall down, but this particular instance is where I pack my bags and leave. To be frank, not a huge fan of corporate culture, and that is exactly what seems to be happening with Reddit. Understand the need to monetize, but appears as though they are looking to go back on the whole 'end-user determines their content' philosophy. Oh, and transparency.
Nothing to protest-
Anyways like the feel of the site, very impressed with it's style, needs some growth, but that will come I'm sure.
I think a lot of it is due to them hiring a lot of people who are primarily corporate people, rather than redditors.
Years ago, reddit would announce that they were hiring on reddit, hiring members of the community capable of filling a role. A vacancy was basically filled by a post like this: http://www.redditblog.com/2010/08/reddit-is-hiring.html Now it looks like this: https://jobs.lever.co/reddit/3a6a4e70-4649-41be-9d94-f4e58a44d8d5 (I would recommend against applying, by the way. I hear the work environment isn't all that for some reason or another...)
Looking at the team-page now, there's hardly a handful of community-people left, and a whole lot of users that have a "Verified email" or "One-year club" badges, only having signed up after getting a job (or if they were savvy, having signed up prior to applying for a job).
Once upon a time, the site was run by people who were lucky enough to have reddit as a full time job. Now it's a bunch of people who are trying to find out how to make money from the couple of millions of pairs of eyeballs that look at their site every day.