Paul Haddad 
Where did that Reddit AMA go?
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/
"Some apps such as Apollo, Reddit is Fun, and Sync have decided this pricing doesn’t work for their businesses”
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:
I don't think a 2 day Reddit blackout is going to do anything. Guessing they'll just wait it out and do nothing.
If it was set up as "until things change” it'd be a lot more interesting. Mostly because I think Reddit would panic at some point and do something really stupid, which would be fun to watch.
Christina Warren@paul some subs are doing that for what it’s worth. I hope more join in.
@film_girl good, I hope more of them do as well. I just don't see anything changing short of a big shake up of management at this point. They probably could've walked back some of the stuff prior to that AMA, but now, ugly…
@paul oh, I fully agree. But Digg died. Slashdot died. Twitter is dying. Reddit is now fucking around and finding out. And I really hope all the would-be retail investors take notice too to see just how fragile the whole website is.
@paul the interesting thing is that Reddit disproportionately relies on a lot of free labor from a lot of dedicated users. Reddit has now shown that they want to make those users lives harder and that they very markedly don’t care about the community. You can replace some of those mods. But anyone who has worked in communities knows how hard it is to find GOOD volunteers. And Reddit has done everything it can to piss off its most loyal and important users.
@paul I’ll add that my favorite part of the AMA was that they had to make a post with direct links to all of the answers b/c the default sorting is so bad and stuff is so hard to find. Of course, the third party apps that are shutting down handled that stuff just fine.
@film_girl ha I thought that the main thing the AMA did was show how bad Reddit is for AMAs. Mission Accomplished.
@paul remember when Reddit fired their amazing employee who handled all the high profile AMAs? That was probably my least-favorite Reddit drama b/c I know Victoria and she’s wonderful.
@film_girl I stopped reading that subreddit when that happened and never started again.
@paul same. Victoria had been in my office literally the week that it happened giving us a presentation and we were working out details for me to do an AMA. Never again. I didn’t even go on Reddit for months after that. Might have been longer. And I’ve never really been as engaged as I once was.
Wayne Dixon@film_girl i stopped using Reddit after a hoax that someone perpetrated indicating that they had terminal cancer. I gave up on the entire site at that point.
I often wonder how many people swore off Reddit and ended up going elsewhere to find their communities.
Philip Mallegol-Hansen@film_girl @paul It didn’t help that there were so few replies that it would be hard to find them in the sea of questions.
I wish I could get away with responding to 14 client emails and calling it a day of work…