Goodbye, IAmA. It was fun while it lasted.
Hello IAmA readers,
I have made the difficult decision to shut down the subreddit IAmA.
edit:If you would like make your own subreddit or suggest an alternative.
While I am sad to see it go and loved a lot of the content that has come out of this subreddit there is much more noise than signal making it to the front page and that is something I never want to come from this subreddit. I started it originally so I wouldn't have to see IAmA posts showing up in r/askreddit and I fear that this may cause that problem to get much worse.
The main reason behind this is that the community has become too large back when it was only 3k-25k or so before we first hit the default subscribed list the community was amazing and most of the posts and comments where insightful/funny/useful.
Since that point I would have to say the quality of posts has gone downhill a huge amount and this is partly due to the fact that we have close to half a million subscribers.
While, yes I will be sad to see it go, I can only assume another subredit will pop up to fill the void. There have been quite a few amazing IAmA posts over the last two year or so.
Part of the problem is that, at leas for myself is, that I work a full time job where I am not near a computer and when I get home if I am going to be on the computer the absolute last thing that I want to be doing is coming on to reddit and working more.
I know that the simple response would be just get more moderators or whatever and have them do work but that would not fix the problem at all that is you, the community which, for the most part, has gone greatly down hill.
On the topic of profiteering in a number of posts, I am aware that it is a problem and there is no way to fix it, there have been posts where people ask for money to fix their problem, I have always been firmly against that. IAmA has never been meant for a place for people to beg for money. After we started to crack down on posts like that more where popping up where people had extravagant sounding tales of how their entire family was murdered by a tornado with suicide bombers in it. Then users offer to send them money, in my opion posts like this are/where just bait to get more money.
As for gold stars/verification/crap-shoot it really can't be done unless we have a full time employee working on it looking in to making sure that everything is correct.
IDs are extremely easy to photoshop as well are any documents that we may need as "proof".
This is one of the main reasons why I want verification to be for and only be fore celebrities/public figures.
Also you do not need us to tell you if a post is false or not you are (most likely) a grown adult and can think for your self and don't need us to tell you what's fake. If you think you won't be happy because you don't know if the guy who posted "IAmA guy with a new puppy" is fake or not without a gold star (green plus) then you have bigger problems than we can help you with.
If you have any questions please reply to this post, I will do my best to answer as many as I can when I return from work this evening as well as during my lunch and breaks.
tl;dr: I am shutting down IAmA effective immediately.
Posted Aug 25, 2011, 4:21 PM UTC · edited
Why not demod yourself, remove it from your frontpage and forget about it?
Edit: I'll use the temporary visibility of the top post to remind people that downvoting this thread and downvoting 32bites' responses does not help in the slightest.
Edit 2: DrunkenJedi has started r/AskPeopleAnything since 32bites has decided to take his/her ball and go home.
Sorry for the threadjack, but I need to say this:
Apologies for my knee-jerk comment previously about the admins taking over this subreddit should 32bites step down. I was afk and didn't grasp the entirety of the situation. What is to be done is still unknown, and my previous comment in no way reflects the reddit team's collaborative decision.
IAMA is an enormous asset for Reddit. It has generated some of the most unique content the internet has to offer. Please do the right thing to maintain the integrity of this jewel of Reddit.
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I still visit IAMA every day and almost always find little interesting amas here and there. Just yesterday there was a senior correspondant from Al Jazeera. In the past there have been celebrities like Ken Jennings, Joe Rogan and other icons of media. Of course IAMA has been 'gamed' many times, but so has the front page (LucidEnding wasn't an AMA).
There are two schools of thought here, those who think IAMA has cratered and should be shutdown, others who still enjoy what it has to offer. I think it has some life left in it and with the support of a few good and dedicated mods who care about the subreddit, can be good again.
Then you missed Kyle Gass. And the girl with a velociraptor hand. And Don Fucking Lemon!
Agreed. IAMA is 80% of the reason why I go on Reddit everyday.
but the cats! THE CATS!!!
NATIONALIZE EVERYTHING!
Upvote for you!
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IAMA is an enormous asset for Reddit. It is fast becoming one of its best viral marketing sells, and a place where companies will be willing to pay reddit for space.
... for me to poop on.
You can't let him delete IAmA, it was one of the reason I moved from digg over 3 years ago.
The cycle is complete. Reddit is a boring over-meta hole as of late.
Starting to agree. So, whats the next up-and-coming site?
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But IAmA has only existed for 2 years?
I lurked before joining.
so..... if we delete IAmA's the diggers will leave?
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Only your dad will leave your mum i.e. me leaving your mum.
Thanks be to GOD that we got SurpriseButtSexer from DIGG (Praise be to Lord). Please don't leave if they shutdown IAMA!
How about you shut your whore mouth!
j/k
WAY TO CLARIFY, FRIEND!
Are you the SARCASTIC_ALLCAPS_GUY now?
He really hasn't been himself lately. I'm thinking they have changed his medication.
now murder her !!!!!
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WE CAN'T ALL BE AS TALENTED AS YOU, BOSS!
Lets be honest here, there are two options:
a) Stick to your policy, lose one of your most popular and possibly well known sub reddit while going against the wish's of the majority of the community. All for someone who "owns" something that is being hosted and supported by you.
b) Replace 32bits as the head mod with anyone else, piss off 32Bits and a a much much smaller part of the community.
The fact that this is going to take several days of "admin discussion" and lead to nothing outlines one of the major problems with how reddit is run. Your the admin's, you the the power to do something so DO something. Sitting back and watching your site community destroy itself is stupid.
This is an iconic subreddit, one that makes this site so enjoyable for myself and many others. You, the admins, have to take over it, at least for now until you can appoint new trustworthy mods.
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I became a member of reddit, and come to it every day (multiple times) almost exclusively because of IAMA. You guys would be fools to allow a section of the site that has half a million readers just die away.
IAmA is what gets Reddit Mainstream attention. People love knowing that theres a certain celebrity or respected person answering questions about this or that... like for Comic-Con, or NASA, or IBMs Watson, etc. IAmA is not something that Reddit as a whole can afford to lose.. and I hope the reddit team realizes it.
Any subreddit that allows a completely uninteresting 23 year-old Redditor me to have a sustained conversation with a United States Congressman about collective bargaining and labor rights is far too valuable a part of Reddit to lose to the whim of one pissed-off mod. Not only is it a massive draw to the site for people who normally wouldn't even think about joining a community like Reddit, it is a very large asset to the argument that a site like this is more than just pre-teen trolls and wannabe hackers. Please, for the sake of Reddit and its members, do not let this happen.
No administrative decision for Jakucha.
He created it, I feel like it's his choice to end it.
I'd be pretty disappointed if the admins suddenly started taking power away from subreddit creators/mods.
This sort of view is something I really feel that some members of the reddit community need to think harder about. A creator does something good when he or she brings a new and beneficial thing into existence, but that does not and should not grant them the power to deprive the world of that thing whenever they decide they want to do so. This line of thinking would mean that a person could invent anything from the light bulb to the transistor and then that person could subsequently get all pissy with society and say "screw you guys, I'm going home. And I'm taking my invention away forever!" Intellectual property does not work that way in any modern society, and it never has and never should not work that way on the Internets.
Thank you for the clarification :-)
I know a great many of us (myself included) went through the trouble of submitting applications to help moderate this subreddit. Should you feel that a revamp is in order, and I think that's the direction this is going, please take into consideration that many of us are more than willing to help.
You should also consider that the majority of the celebrity IAmAs were handled by Reddit admins (Hueypriest) and that they were posted to the Reddit blog. A subscriber base of over 464 thousand and regular Reddit admin involvement show that this place is an important part of the Reddit community and should not be lost over one foolish mod.
I see no reason why you do not just reboot it. I do not understand how one douchebag can have complete power to remove a popular subreddit. This is not how a community driven site should work. People upvoted IAMA by the thousands. Fuck this guy, reboot it.
I think it's obvious that letting one person kill it off would be wrong. You guys know what is best. Don't let us down.
this is a terrible decision. there definitely could be another way to go about fixing it
Don't apologize, just do what you need to do. You KNOW everyone here is behind you guys as long as this gets cleared up.
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please, ban this mod a give iama back, its destroying reddit right now..
It seems like everyone agrees here. Why can't you just remove yourself as a mod? It doesn't have to be your responsibility anymore. But it is something a lot of people love. Why crush something people love? Just rid yourself of the burden.
A big part of the problem is the 400,000+ users.
Starting from scratch could only improve the quality of an AMA subreddit.
the reason they got big names to do interviews is because it was so large
The reason they got constantly scammed, trolled, and flooded with ignorant posts is because it was so large.
Wrong? It will just balloon up to those numbers again. Then what, raze it and start anew again? The definition of stupidity is doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting different results; do you really believe that by virtue of simply recreating the sub that all of the problems of this current sub will just magically vanish?
This is removing the nose to spite the face.
actually thats the definition of insanity
Hopefully this will be a wake-up call to the reddit community that if they treat their subreddits like shit, they will disappear.
You are probably right... the same pattern will repeat itself.. but that isn't 32bites fault, that is the community's fault.
If the claim is true that the subreddit is enjoyable from some early time x until some later time y, the point where its size begins to detract from its quality, then y-x is the amount of time for which the subreddit is enjoyable without being razed and started anew. z(y-x) is the amount of time the subreddit can be enjoyable, where z is the number of times it's razed (assuming that the dynamics determining x and y remain the same.) Increasing z increases the amount of time that this subreddit exists and is enjoyable, thus it is not stupidity or insanity to do it, nor does the OP need to expect different results to justify his actions.
I guess I could say that better: if the site is good while it's small, but it always gets steadily larger after being razed until it's no longer enjoyable, there's nothing illogical about razing it and enjoying it for awhile before having to raze it again.
I feel like everyone's gonna migrate to r/ama
For the record, no single moderator has been consulted prior to this.
Please visit here to add your opinion on this and what should be done next.
Well that's just plain rude.
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For anyone wondering what it said: http://i.imgur.com/MTpeF.png
Edit: krispykrackers has responded here.
Ok, not to be an ass here, but there's probably a reason that she deleted this. Keep that in mind, everyone, as you read the image above.
KK deleted it.
From her overview it shows up like it's been removed.I believe bites removed it.Just PM'ed her.Edit: If it is on her overview that means it's been removed, if it was deleted then it wouldn't be there. Stay classy, bites.Admins don't want to get involved because of the precedent. The other admins told her so. The admins are wrong imho. If 32Bites gets away with this, my trust in reddit will be fairly shattered. I'm not renewing my reddit gold.
This whole hands off the subreddits thing by the admins has been a problematic policy for a long time. It's also not followed 100%. I am a moderator in r/business because Raldi put me there. r/IAMA is a massive part of reddit now. Letting a moderator act this capriciously will ROCK the community's faith and trust, and will definitely have an adverse impact on the community's loyalty to the site.
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It's still showing up on her comment history, meaning 32bites removed it.
Admins don't have/want that kind of power, I'm guessing
They sure as hell do have the power. They transfer ownership of dead reddits to new people who request it all the time. It's how I got control of and revitalised r/coversongs.
And while they may not use their powers to strip powertripping subreddit creators like b34nz (racist r/marijuana creator) of ownership that's probably because it was a freespeech issue and he still managed to keep the subreddit alive and active. They can and probably will strip 32bites of his power over IAMA (a subreddit of a 300k+ subscriber) for trying to shut it down entirely when there are clearly other people willing to put in the effort to keep it active.
Did he delete the IAmA archive as well? It had all the great celebrity IAmAs in it.
No, that's a different subreddit which was created by someone else.
http://www.reddit.com/r/IAMAFamousArchive/
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Cool. Please do.
You guys should probably reinstate the other mods that this guy demodded in order to pull off this juvenile hissy fit, too.
edit: hrm. deleted.
crosses fingers for bites to remove himself
This thing just stinks of 'This is mine, suck my dick' and while it's true, his does 'own' this sub in he's the top mod and can do what he has done, doesn't mean he should. Being the top dog is like being a wizard. You can do some pretty malicious shit but you shouldn't and don't. He's an apostate now...
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The previous comment we're all excited about was the admin krispykrackers saying she'll give somebody the sub if bites removes himself. Bites removed it as a mod, I've PM'ed the admin about it.Being a moderator on Reddit is like being a wizard? WOW. I wanna be a wizard.
It won't happen, they just deleted their comment.
I'm guessing that since they are now employed by reddit they have been told to keep the fuck out of this one.
If anyone still has the page open, you might want to get a screen cap.
Got one!
Hey, I screencapped it in my thread on r/reddit.com seen here second link on my post.
Edit: Direct link here: http://i.imgur.com/xBBBS.png
Thank you. A moderator can start a subreddit but I do not believe they should then have the power to unilaterally shutter it. Particularly one that has become as intrinsic to reddit as r/IAMA. An abandoned subreddit should always be transferable to new moderators if the demand is there.
Edit: Well this is bad news, Krispykrackers just deleted her post. The admins better make the right call on this. It's make or break for reddit's popularity.
r/RedditRequest
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The previous comment we're all excited about was the admin krispykrackers saying she'll give somebody the sub if bites removes himself.Bites removed it as a mod, I've PM'ed the admin about it.He hasn't actually abandoned it. He's maintaining himself as the sole moderator and forbidding new posts.
Your new askpeopleanything isn't helping shit. it's just confusing matters. A 10,000 strong subreddit called r/ama already exists you know.
300k out of something like 16 million. It's not. It's just really, really not.
Will you consider removing him/her and adding in new mods? Supposing you do, or he/she does step down, I'd like to put myself forward as moderator.
I have a reasonable amount of experience in moderation and believe I could do the subreddit justice. I'd also add most, if not all, the old mods.
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The previous comment we're all excited about was the admin krispykrackers saying she'll give somebody the sub if bites removes himself.Bites removed it as a mod, I've PM'ed the admin about it.When you say step down, you do mean actually demod himself and not merely do what he's done now, which is to say "Closing up shop. Have a good one.", right? I presume as such, since otherwise you wouldn't have posted, and just done it.
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Agreed.
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Thank you, please do.
Please do. Wow, I fucking love Reddit admins.
Due to the fact that this subreddit is so large and attracts well known celebrities, can you make the executive decision to take it over yourself without the approval of 32bites?
Can, but won't. It's 'his' sub, while she very much wants to I don't think it's happening.
Edit: The previous comment we're all excited about was the admin krispykrackers saying she'll give somebody the sub if bites removes himself.
The problem is, what happens if they refuse and just want it shut down?
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Ya hurr that fellers? We got ourshelvs a bran' shpankin new modrater!! Yippeeee!!
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wow. irrational hate much?
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You seem to miss that, thought I'd remind you.
What if bites doesn't step down?
Edit: The previous comment we're all excited about was the admin krispykrackers saying she'll give somebody the sub if bites removes himself.
http://i.imgur.com/sTJr6.gif
Then he just got reddit all riled up for nothing.
Should we burn the effigy every August 25^th ?
It would be disrespectful not to!
I bet 32bites doesn't step down now that he knows it won't go away. As somebody else in here so eloquently put it, what a choad.
Cosigned. The reasoning behind this is stupid. It's akin to burning your house down over a roach infestation.
Actual "common" expression: Throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
Wow! Do you go outside or something?
All the time! Why?
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I'm not sure that's the best analogy. I'd burn down the whole fucking neighborhood over a roach infestation.
Fuck the bathwater and the roaches. Burn babies. From orbit. Only way to be sure.
More like Moving out, and then burning your old house down over a roach infestation.
A roach infestation that occurred 6 months after someone else started living in the house.
More like burning down and apartment complex you own because you can't keep track of all the tenants.
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Nah, needs more community. Apartment building perhaps.
I 'd make immortals..
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I think it's more like boarding up your house over a roach infestation, when an exterminator is what's needed.
That's not a good analogy to use on a community that is willing to burn down houses based on a single spider sighting.
I would like to draw everyone's attention to /r/redditrequest
32Bites can quit if he wants, but I don't think that is how Reddit works. If I am wrong, please correct me. I believe IAmA now falls under the distinction of "unmaintained".
Why not? Subreddits are semi-autonomous entities, if 32bites wants to shutter a subreddit he created I'm not aware of any reddit rules saying he can't.
Reddit works by jurisprudence, if somebody does something and does not get bitchslapped by the admins, that's how reddit works.
You kind of made my case for me with your last sentence. Just as there are no rules against him shuttering r/IAmA, there are no rules preventing me from requesting control and bringing it back.
If I get it, I will do what I can to ensure that no one person will be able to kill it again.
You have almost no reputation though...
I did not said they were. You're the one who asserted it was not "how reddit works"
then commence the bitchslappage
http://www.reddit.com/r/redditrequest/comments/ju6h2/requesting_control_of_riama/
I'm not sure exactly what his plan is, but it would be fairly easy to just kick the other mods (which he's done) and then delete every incoming post.
This would not violate any rules, nor would the subject be "unmaintained".
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We don't need ten other new IAMA subreddits. It is VERY VERY HARD to build up a new subscriber base. THIS subreddit needs to be transferred to the other IAMA moderators, who were just unmodded for no reason, to continue.
Incorrect.
Even though I loathe it r/explainlikeim5 had like 100,000 subs in about a week.
A new subreddit can take off like a rocket if it is in the right place. It is the magic of reddit. Overriding the mod would discourage every mod on reddit because part of that magic is that the reddit is yours to do with as you will.
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It's ok, most of the time when splintereddit's have started up, they've merged back together at some point.
More than that it actually hurts it!!! This was downvoted so much I had to get here from the TheoryOfReddit link else I never would have seen it. Fucking redditquette people, don't downvote shit just because you disagree with it! YOU may have seen this but by downvoting it you're ensuring others wont see it, and this is pretty important really. IAmA is a huge community and many working people will just wonder what happened to it if this gets downvoted to oblivion.
I agree with you entirely on this, he should just get a new mod, demod, unsubscribe and have his power trip somewhere else.
Interesting to see that most of the people over at TheoryOfReddit seem to think this is a really noble and mature thing to do because it upsets so many people.
It's like going to a memorial service, pissing on the corpse and being all noble about it cause so many people are pissed off.
Sound like hipsters to me -.-
Rarely do I throw around the term "elitist", but the ToR response really does seem that way to me.
"People there suck, therefore the subreddit deserves to be nuked from orbit"
It still pisses me off that the downvote button exists for this reason. Fuck Redditiquette, there are too many spammers, idiots and people with agendas for it to work. Why not just have a report/spam button and ONLY an upvote?
APA doesn't have the same ring. In fact it reminds me that I need to write a paper.
These two disagree with you.
Absolutely. It feels to me that this is a fairly crucial post for r/IAMA to see, and yet, many people are downvoting out of anger. This whole thing's depressing for multiple reasons.
If you shut it down, then someone could open it back up.
Or you can just leave.
No need for new subreddits to pop up everywhere!
r/ama already has OVER 9000! subscribers. No clue how the mods are though. :]
Please contact one of the administrators and report this! http://www.reddit.com/user/hueypriest
http://www.reddit.com/help/faq#Whatifthemoderatorsarebad
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Is it just me, or does anyone else believe there's not one single reason to fucking care? The new Iama will replace this one in everyone's mind by this time tomorrow. 32bites will become some sort of meme, and/or reference to douche stuff and not one single AMA will be lost because of this?
At worst all the IAmA posts will go back to flood the regular askreddit, if that's what originally happened. It's not like we're not allowed to do IAmA stuff anymore haha.
that's what I thought. I mean, i doubt even one comment will be missed because IAMA is dead.
Why the hell are these moderators obsessed with the "quality" of posts in the first place? A moderator's job is to regulate HOW content is uploaded and distributed, not to regulate WHAT goes through their forum/subreddit/server. This is especially true for reddit, where all of the content is user-chosen. Shit be gettin' out of hand, yo.
IS there something weird about r/AMA that i don't know about? [r/AMA]9http://www.reddit.com/r/AMA) has 2 mods, and 10k followers
Fucked if I know. I'm one of the mods of r/ama and would be glad to take on new subscribers.
Well the problem isn't that the subreddit is too big, it is that the masses have dumbed IAmA down so much that it has become repetitive crap and an easy target for trolls.
Anything to do with sex and violence goes straight to the front page.
If redditors would grow up, we could have a nice community again.
Meh
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You know how certain patriarchal men with a great deal of pride and a high quality of life, when faced with sudden failure and destitution, choose to kill not only themselves, but also their entire family?
That's what this is.
Because I'm guessing in 32bites mind, he's thinking "if I can't have it, no one can"
demodding himself would be the noble thing to do, let someone else jump in and try to fix it (deleting worthless ama's, etc.) but instead of doing that, he just deletes it. Selfish, IMO
I honestly don't think it's fair to shut an entire subreddit down. What good does that do for anybody but the mod? That's an unfair solution for a small issue.
Or r/shareastory
My best guess is that all the naysayers to shutting down this subreddit were not around when it was created. The thing is different then it started out and now it's not serving its original purpose.
Subscribed immediately. Thanks.
Okay, let's suppose he doesn't relent: A new sub.
IAmA2 is taken and dead.
Can you please link this sub to your comment?
What about r/ama? It's been around a long time already.
It's not the same as IAmA, no requests, no celebrities.
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Then we create a new one
http://www.reddit.com/r/ItsIAmA/
Because while yes one of issues is that I don't have enough time for the subreddit is that the community for the most part has gone to shit and dumping that burden on another moderator wont fix anything at all.
How about fuck you you arrogant bastard.
You're abusing your mod powers. Make me moderator and fuck off, I'll keep this shit running.
IAmA's will of course turn into another subreddit, I wouldn't worry. Think of this as cleaning out your facebook friends.
edit: fuck my optimism!
We'll never get big names to do AMAs for 2000 subscribers. IAMA's size made it valuable, and 32bites is killing it because it got too big.
I'll take the ring to Mordor!
Haha, you're a massive faggot.
Oh, go fuck yourself.
A mod owns the subreddit, they can do whatever they fucking want. The community, including yourself, has zero say in anything unless the owning mod wants it. He's not abusing shit. Grow up.
Might does not make right. Fuck you.
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How about you calm the fuck down. You probably don't know the first thing about moderating.
Could you do an AMA?
TOO SOON.
Is it possible to make this the background image for the new IAmA? http://static.redditgifts.com/images/uploaded/profile-photo/32bites/_IMG2523_2_S.jpg
Is this really the guy?
Holy shit.... how?? This is fantastic.
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Fuck you, half a million subscribers cannot be held by the whims of a single individual. Fuck off, and do not abuse your mod powers.
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Apparently.
It's not really abuse. He's the moderator and closing a subreddit is within a moderator's powers.
He's using, not absuing, his powers.
If you don't like it, start your own subreddit you snivelling nigger boy.
You're a fucktard. Just because its perfectly legal within the rules of reddit doesn't mean its not abuse.
Fine I'll build my own subreddit with blackjack and hookers and ... you know what forget the subreddit.
SWIVELLING BIGGER NOW!
In other words "I couldn't do a good enough job moderating a 450,000 subscriber community by myself, so I've grown to despise the community. Obviously since I'm the best, nobody else could ever do better than me. Especially not even a team of dedicated redditors with a love for the community and a drive to make it work."
Gimmie gimmie gimmie. I want it, it's mine.
Lol, I for one am glad to see it go, specifically because of people like you.
So let the community decide if it wants to stick around. IAmA has grown beyond your vision, for better or worse, and you have to deal with that.
By the way, shutting down the sub will do exactly when you don't want to happen and will "[dump] the burden on another moderator" when all the trolls decided to screw with IAmA v2.
Don't forget, he asked for moderators about a month ago.
Just throwing a little fuel on the fire.
And yet chose not to add any.
A metric shit-ton of us applied. No one was added.
I really hope you realize how stupid you sound. I hope to christ that this is some kind of joke. 460,000 people read and enjoy this subreddit. Just because you think it "has gone to shit" doesn't mean you should destroy it. You are making a selfish, stupid, and arrogant mistake, and I seriously hope you reconsider what you are trying to do to this community. Give it a chance.
If you don't like it, don't fucking look at it you dipshit. Hand it over to someone who cares about it.
You are being an immature little prick.
This is quite literally "Screw you guys, I'm going home". Why not pass the torch if you don't like the direction this sub is headed instead of shutting it down?
That isn't your problem though?
your logic
Is this Steve Jobs thinks he looks like when he comes up with a new idea?
I hope one day you wake up and realize how big of a douche nozzle you are.
"Dumping that burden" - for the 500,000 subscribers this is not a burden. It is only in your opinion that IAmA has "gone to shit". If a bunch of people enjoy something, even when you do not, it does not mean you have to take it away from them. Please reconsider.
Confirmed. You're a goddamn entitled shitglosser. The fact that you sucked balls as a moderator shouldn't be some retarded reason why you won't allow anyone else to try. Get the fuck over yourself.
Get more moderators to replace you, and tell them they're welcome to get more if necessary. You're making a huge mistake killing this subreddit; it is an integral part of this online community.
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What are you doing not talking about shaft? How dare you!
Well aren't you just a burst spunkbubble. "Dumping that burden" makes no sense when someone asks for it. You're just being a wankshaft for the sake of it. Man up and admit it.
It's not up to you. You do not own r/IAmA. Your one opinion that it has "gone to shit" does not supersede the opinions of 464,073 subscribers. You are being an asshole.
If there are a whole team of people who are willing to take on the task of cleaning up the mess and getting it running smoothly again, why not give them that chance?
You have been here long enough to know who is trustworthy, so you could appoint a few mods, and let them get on with it
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If you're giving up, why do you give a fuck what happens? Why go through all the fucking drama of shutting it down instead of posting, "IAmA sucks, I don't have time to fix it, what should we do, reddit?" How are ZERO posts are better than a poor s/n ratio?
You're not looking for solutions. You're looking for attention. This is the worst possible thing you could have done.
Exactly. The drama, the complaining, and all the confusion as a result of'shutting it down' are absolutely the opposite of fixing things.
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Yes, you, a 20 year old restaurant supply worker can certainly say that you've had enough (or any) experience in the world to rationalize your understanding of how communities are started, then grow, and change. I hope you're enjoying the fallout from this massive violation of trust to your subscribers.
What the fuck is wrong with you, exactly? Do you realize what you are doing? You are denying hundreds of thousands of people, some of whom are not even Redditors, but just visiting the site, the opportunity to ask questions, share who they are, interact with celebrities, etc. This place, whether you like it or not, is one of the greatest things about Reddit. No other subreddit can rise to the caliber that this one has. I come to this subreddit more than any other except for the ones I moderate. True, there are some IAmAs that are obvious troll posts, but some of them are actually quite entertaining to read, and brighten my day, which all too often seem bleak. There have been times in the past where I have been contemplating ending my life, but reading an IAmA took my mind off of it in a way that submitting anonymous posts to r/SuicideWatch couldn't. I laughed, I cried, but most importantly I lived.
Please, please reconsider your actions, for the good of the community - not just this community, but ALL of Reddit. If you do, I'll be the first to forgive you.
I'm the 500th person to say this, but I think it bears repeating:
Go fuck yourself.
TL;DR I'm the only mod ever who can clean mess in a subreddit.
But I won't ::trollface::
Poor baby.
This may get lost in your flood of oranges but who are you to decide what other moderators are capable of? If a few dedicated moderators take over they may come up with plenty of ideas to turn it around.
For instance I'd probably set up a separate sub for requests and not let people create posts here until they are approved. If someone wants to do an AMA they have to be verified before a mod approves them to psot here.
That took me 30 seconds to come up with may it works maybe it doesn't but by nuking the subreddit and not giving other mods a chance to turn it around you're ruining something a lot of people have enjoyed.
If you don't like what this subreddit has become just leave. I don't see how it would hurt or affect you in anyway to just leave and let others take over.
What a dick.
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What an smug little piece of shit. Thank you for carrying us all dead weights.
If another moderator would like to take up the challenge, and I'm sure there are many, why stop them? let them try.
That's not your decision to make.
Moving the burden to moderators who actually have time would have a far better chance of fixing things as opposed to just quitting and screwing over a ton of members.
Evidently a lot of people disagree with your opinion that it's gone to shit. Isn't it a little unfair of you to shut it down for everyone just because you no longer like it?
I think you are doing the right thing. Reddit has gone to shit, especially over the US school holidays.
I thought it would get better but I said that last year.... and the year before and the year before... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
Was going to downvote, then saw your account name.
I'm not joking. I've been here for the last five years and it's gone to shit. I'm going to... the other place. I've said too much.
It's not 'dumping' it on moderators if they volunteer.
Please reconsider.
Dude, if others are willing to carry this "burden", just let them. They're big boys and girls...they can take care of themselves. Don't sink a community for the hell of it. (And justify it all you want; you are doing it just for the hell of it.)
Oh boo fucking hoo. Why not let someone else worry about it instead of acting so whiny and dramatic. What are you 12? "Oh I can't handle it so I alone will spare the world"
Coward.
So basically you'd rather drown your retarded child than put him in the care of the State. That's sad.
Leave that decision up to people who give a fuck about anything. You have no authority to tell another moderator if his efforts will be in vain or not.
Maybe the reason it has gone to shit is because you're a shitty mod that has no time for it. So hand it over to someone who does.
ahhahahah you're a fucking faggot, dude.
Just because you assume giving it to a moderator won't work doesn't make it true.
Why don't you try it out instead of just saying "if I can't do it, no one can."
Because it would break his ego if someone made a huge success of it.
Maybe they'll actually moderate and it won't be shit anymore.
I can assure you sir, you are most definitely a douche. I realize you are incapable of seeing that you are or caring, but I promise, you are, and if you could actually properly see yourself in third-person, you would care.
Ya, just wanted to add my disgust to your inbox... Fuck you dude. Terrible behavior. Unacceptable.
Ill take over IAmA, I have enough time
Isn't that for the community and subreddit to find out, not for you to assume?
It should not be up to you It seems like your just some kid that can not handle having a life so give this "burden" to someone who can.
In your opinion
You suck, bro.
Go step in front of a bus, you useless egomaniac.
This subreddit would still serve a great purpose even without a moderator. People would just have to take things with a grain of salt, which they should be doing any fucking way.
This sounds like when one of the 'good, responsible, loving' pet owners comes and drops a perfectly healthy animal off at the veterinarians clinic for euthanasia justifying their actions with "No one will love it as much as I do, and I just can't take care of it anymore. It's better off dead."
Yes, this happens. Consider the bird flipped in your general direction for being a bad subreddit owner.
My whole family hates you.
Seriously, grow up. Just because you think it is shit is not a good reason to just dump it all.
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Nah nah naaahhh nah, HEY, YOU SUCK! Nah nah naaahhh nah, HEY, YOU SUCK!
I don't think I would've done the same were I in your shoes but I feel for you. I suspect that you're motivated to a big degree by wanting to preserve the history of the subreddit rather than letting all the gems get buried by ever deeper piles of garbage. Still, I think you're mostly pissing into the wind here. Something like r/IAmA is going to exist and going to turn to shit no matter what you do, so why complicate the matter? I think a better solution would be to petition the admins to hire a paid moderator. The amount of work involved in properly managing the special needs of r/IAmA make a pretty good case for it.
Enjoy your downvotes.
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You are one useless "moderator" who thinks his fucking opinion matters more then of the community and just because you've created it means you can decide whether it stays or not well FUCK YOU GET OFF YOUR HORSE this subreddit doesnt belong to you it belongs to the community so shut the fuck up and leave
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fuck you 32bites, you egotistical, self-aggrandizing faggot. I hope you die a slow and painful death.
Dude. You rule.
It will fix something just fine: it will put the community in the hands of people who (a) might not be as burnt out as you on it (b) might be better capable of managing it (c) might have more experience and time (d) might like the community as it is just fine. It just sounds like you're not taking other people's opinions very seriously here, and that does make me feel like... while the hate you're getting isn't very productive, the indignation and resentment is rather fair of them.
If you want someone to rule it with an iron fist, I think I could help you out.
Hey man, I know you have a lot of haters right now, but I think you made the right decision.
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You are 100% correct! Don't let anyone talk you out of a decision you've already made. All your points are valid and your reasons justified. Remove the subreddit and let the "concerned community" build what it will from the ashes.
Do the right thing, 32bites.
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I mean, if only there were some way to not read things you don't like.
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