192 upvotes, 3 direct replies (showing 3)
View submission: Sunsetting Secret Santa and Reddit Gifts
Then why not just hire someone? Surely reddit has enough money to hire enough people that "time" shouldn't be an issue?
Comment by yourtalllife at 10/06/2021 at 00:24 UTC
68 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Actually, the brain trust at reddit is so uniquely incompetent that they can run one of the most popular sites in the world, where users generate all the content, organize the content, and do moderation of the content all for free, and they still lose money every year[1].
1: https://www.businessofapps.com/data/reddit-statistics/
You could (and should) fire everyone connected to reddit's engineering and business teams and place a single Google ad on every page and the site would be both much better without the staggering stupidity of their engineers bloating it with useless "features" and profitable.
Hey, it's only been 20 years. They'll figure out how to make money one day...
Comment by Canvaverbalist at 09/06/2021 at 20:19 UTC
99 upvotes, 2 direct replies
I hate the answer, but it's because I hate the question.
Of course it's because of money. The real question should be, what in the data and overall company philosophy dictates that Reddit Gifts would be a bad investment?
So, "why not hire someone" = "because it would shift away our financial focus, someone we pay for Reddit Gift means someone we can't pay somewhere else" which wouldn't answer anything.
What I want to know /u/KeyserSosa, is what in the data shows that focusing on Reddit Gifts would be a bad investment of time/money? What is it in the company philosophy of Reddit that Reddit Gifts clashes against compared to other avenues?
Comment by i_am_not_mike_fiore at 10/06/2021 at 06:29 UTC
14 upvotes, 2 direct replies
I remember last time Reddit “just hired someone” a few weeks ago…. 😬