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AMAs are the latest casualty in Reddit’s API war (arstechnica.com)

submitted 1 year ago by abaixodecao@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] MagnumDovetails@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

AMAs died when Reddit fired Victoria, they haven’t been worth a shit in a while.

[–] sorenant@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Victoria leaving was tragic but can we talk about Rampart?

[–] HerrLewakaas@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Who is Victoria?

[–] Stovetop@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

In the statement from the AMA mods, they stated that if Reddit wanted to continue providing that sort of celebrity outreach that they had been doing for free, they should hire a liaison for that.

Before the mods took that responsibility on for themselves, Victoria (/u/chooter on Reddit) used to be that person.

Victoria was able to pull in some big names for AMAs, and she was good at identifying good/interesting questions and helping with submitting responses. Reddit unceremoniously fired her one day and the quality of celebrity AMAs dropped significantly after that.

[–] clementineholic@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

It's so crazy how they fired her. Reddit's leadership really loves to shoot themselves in the foot. I applaud the mods scaling back their AMA mod duties. No point in doing so much extra work for a community that reddit continually shows it doesn't care about and actively harms through their bad decisions.

[–] bric@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

do we have any idea what they fired her for? I keep seeing people that are mad about it, but I don't feel like I have enough information to know if it was really unjustified

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It is not known exactly who made the decision or why. Apparently even to her.