211 upvotes, 5 direct replies (showing 5)
View submission: Sunsetting Secret Santa and Reddit Gifts
Victoria Taylor[1] - The former champion of r/IAMA who helped organize and facilitate so[2] many[3] fantastic[4] posts[5]. She helped celebrities and otherwise famous or notable individuals navigate the site and reply to questions, and managed other media relations for the site as the Director of Communications for reddit.
1: https://reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2fgsv2/i_am_victoria_from_reddit_amaa/
2: https://reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2a5vg8/i_am_buzz_aldrin_engineer_american_astronaut_and/
3: https://reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2j4ce1/keanu_reeves_hello/
4: https://reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2le34s/bill_nye_undeniably_back_ama/
5: https://reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/356sal/hi_reddit_im_caroll_spinney_the_puppeteer_who_has/
Reddit showed their appreciation by firing her when she refused to take a "highly commercial"[6] approach (read as $$) to the AMAs she coordinated.
6: https://images.gawker.com/1326107685476973672/original.jpg
The only reddit employee users of the site appreciated, and they canned her for "resistance to management" without so much as a heads up to the AMA mods, effectively pulling the rug out from underneath the once amazing subreddit.[7] In turn, this spurred a large protest with a number of subreddits going black and demanding change/communication/integrity/etc,[8], to which well... here we are five years later and the Reddit higher ups are proving to still be just as tone deaf.
7: https://reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/3bw39q/why_has_riama_been_set_to_private/
8: https://reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/3bw39q/why_has_riama_been_set_to_private/
Comment by Fatdisgustingslob at 09/06/2021 at 20:12 UTC
49 upvotes, 2 direct replies
It shows, too. The subreddit is a shade of its former self. Now it's adult actors promoting their onlyfans, airline ticket sellers, and lucid dreaming "experts". I know people use it to promote their film/book/whatever they're selling, but now it's so blatant that my ad blocker should start showing a blank page when I visit.
Comment by epicfishboy at 09/06/2021 at 19:45 UTC
94 upvotes, 1 direct replies
The best thing is, if you go to the sub now, it’s just full of complete shite that no one could care less about.
You’d have thought that a great way to attract users (and therefore make money) would be to keep a sub like that running as smoothly as it was.
Comment by oksuzy at 09/06/2021 at 22:22 UTC
10 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Wow, I completely forgot about /r/IAMA. Crazy how all of the stuff that made this site so much fun back when I first joined has just eroded away over time.
Comment by Silent-Gur-1418 at 09/06/2021 at 22:38 UTC
10 upvotes, 0 direct replies
And that change took IAMA from one of the biggest pages on the internet in general to a near total ghost town.
Comment by [deleted] at 09/06/2021 at 20:47 UTC
8 upvotes, 1 direct replies
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