They’re getting voted into oblivion on the AMA, but u/ChariotWheel is helpfully cut-and-pasting and formatting them here.
He may not get the most downvoted comment in reddit history. But Spez is likely to end up with the most brutal AMA in history…
“Thank you for all the years of hardwork single handedly creating the greatest platform and gracing us with your presence here today. With regards to the api changes and third party apps, I was just wondering if you had started the process of going and fucking yourself? you greedy little pigboy.” -u/OoooThatsTheSpot
Did he answer that? 🤣
I wish! He hasn’t answered anything but softball questions I can only assume were posted by his mom and secretary.
Which were initially prefixed with
A:, as if he copy-pasted premade answers from a spreadsheet or a word document 🤣Oh my god, that’s rich!
Honestly, I don’t see this issue with that - having preprepared answers to make sure they’re accurate (though that doesn’t appear to have been the reason in this case…) etc is a reasonable thing for an AMA like that
I think the substance (or often honestly lack thereof) of those responses is much more the problem, together with not actually addressing most of the questions that were responded to properly (and I’m honestly just confused by the decision process by Reddit’s leadership in general tbh as it was rather foreseeable not to end well. Kinda wish Reddit will die from this hoping a lot of the communities I care about migrate to something like Lemmy instead; but I’m not holding my breath)
If you have pre-answered questions then it’s not an AMA, it’s an announcement or a press release. An AMA requires the communication to go both ways, and he didn’t answer anything he was unprepared for
He screwed up so bad, and it’s obvious he’s quite stupid…I’m wondering if he was given the Ellen Poa treatment. The investor’s knew what changes they wanted to implement to increase revenue, had him implement it, then made him take all the flak. Next, they’ll replace spez with someone else, seemingly roll back a few of the changes, and say they’re working with the reddit community. The thing is that it’s obvious that reddit is irreparably infected. The diseases cannot be eradicated because the disease is corporate greed. Reddit began its time in hospice the moment they shared they were going public. It’s over. Done. Say you final goodbyes. RIP in pieces.
I agree. No way any investor is actually gonna want that dipshit to be running the company
I think they WILL want it anyway, but that’s why I’m here :)
That’s a good take. When I worked in IT for a big company, they brought in a new CIO that was brought in specifically to outsource all of internal IT. After that was complete he retired a rich man.
Someone replied to him with “Aaron would be ashamed of the person you’ve become” and I’ve never seen such a succinct destruction of a human being in a long time. Shame Steve has no soul.
Looking through the AMA feels like talking to an ex, after you both already know it’s over and there is no coming back.
God damn, its a fricking shit show. I love it.
He doesn’t seem to understand that when it’s his word against Christian’s, we will trust the person who has demonstrated a history of caring about engaging with the community and producing good work, AND who happens to have brought the receipts.
The kicker here is he could have done this at any time, but only chose to do so after that shit whistle decided to drag his name through the mud. Christian has been a class act through all of this.
“we’re working on” “we’re not 100% sure we’re happy with” “could be interesting someday” “we haven’t figured out yet”
Maybe you should have figured all of this out before you asked for developers to pay absorbent amounts and shift more people on to your official apps?
I love your typo/autocorrect. “Absorbant” amounts. I picture huge piles of money being used as sponges but not doing anything useful.
I have very bad typing issues lol. I write things super badly, and then rewrite until spell check gives me something and since I don’t know how it’s spelled I’ll just be like “yep, that looks good.”
I make frequent typing errors too. I’ve accepted it as part of my quirks. That’s just how I am 🤷♂️
One day the AI overlord’s will type for you only by thinking about it. Untill then you can use GPT 😬
It’s crazy hearing how nonresponsive the reddit team has been to 3rd party devs.
They really seem like they made the decision internally to force everyone into their own app and kill off as many third party apps as possible, presumably for data collection/analytics. That would explain why they’re quietly ignoring third party app devs and other alternative solutions (like the paid user API key solution discussed elsewhere).
Especially the constant “oops our bad plz reach out again this time we’ll respond we promise :)” bullshit.
Hahaha. I swear.
Seeing that thread made me get over leaving reddit, I do have to thank spez for that
Same, seeing him blatantly slander the Apollo dev sealed the deal for me. My account is still active, but come June 30th, it’s gone.
The quality of his answers, considering the scope of the conversation, was extremely lacking.
Yeah, this is definitely a watershed moment for me. I knew it’d be bad, but I didn’t know it’d be “openly admit to not caring about users and only care about money, continue to lie about someone when they have a literal recording of you” level of bad
I knew it’d be bad, but I didn’t know it’d be “openly admit to not caring about users and only care about money, continue to lie about someone when they have a literal recording of you” level of bad
And this shows that from now on, it’s only going to get worse.
Same reasons here also.
Steve actually doubled down on the blackmail accusation when we have to recording, my god this is some juicy drama.
“We are not profitable” -CEO of a company that is about to IPO
… Weird flex but okay.
While failing to mention the contribution that third party apps made to reddit’s popularity.
They also promised to support third party clients for a long time - classic bait and switch.
What a joke of an AMA, those answers were pathetic.
Wow. Just. Wow.
It’s like he thinks he can do no wrong, and everyone else is the problem.
I bet he doesn’t wipe.
Typical narcissist tbh
Reading this from kbin, because he gave me the push… should i actually thank u/spez?
yup. reddit has been really trash for years now. i appreciate the push to find better communities
I’ve been unhappy with Reddit for a while. This is the kick in the ass I needed. So far I like kbin the best out of everything I’ve tried.
Same with me, most of my personal network is all 3rd party based so I’ll point them at lemmy or here.
I just went through and downvoted all his responses. They’re all pathetic
All three of them!? You madman!
The guy was named Steve. Why are the dousches always named Steve.
