Paul Haddad Jun 9, 2023
Where did that Reddit AMA go?
Show threadPaul Haddad Jun 9, 2023
There it goes, now let's talk about Rampart!
https://old.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/145bram/addressing_the_community_about_changes_to_our_api/
Addressing the community about changes to our API

Dear redditors, For those of you who don’t know me, I’m Steve aka u/spez. I am one of the founders of Reddit, and I’ve been CEO since 2015. On...

reddit
Show threadPaul Haddad Jun 9, 2023
Doubling down.
Show threadPaul Haddad Jun 9, 2023
"Some apps such as Apollo, Reddit is Fun, and Sync have decided this pricing doesn’t work for their businesses”
Show threadPaul Haddad Jun 9, 2023
Someone needs to learn how to read the room. Damn that’s some bad PR.
Show threadPaul Haddad Jun 9, 2023

So the AMA ended up being 20k almost exclusively negative comments and 14 non answers that just pissed people off more.

Dave Chappelle has some salient advice for next time:

Show threadSlade Watkins

@paul As I said in my reporting on this, the questions were going to be cherry picked, approved by legal, and have a spin that favours only Reddit’s side.

It ended up being much more embarrassing than that.

Jun 9, 2023 at 9:48pmIvory for iOS
Show threadPaul Haddad Jun 9, 2023
@sladewatkins insane that they didn’t do that. I guess to me kind of insane that they did anything at all.
Show threadKevin HerreraJun 9, 2023
@paul @sladewatkins I wonder if it was just ego getting in the way of rational decision making.
Show threadSlade WatkinsJun 10, 2023
@kherge @paul It was (and still is) absolutely an ego thing. That much is clear from his communication—“I’m right even if the evidence proves me to be wrong,” etc.