/r/IAmA Shutdown - Just the facts ma'am.
As many of you know r/IAmA is being shut down. However, as a typical user I'm a bit out of the loop as I'm sure some others are too, so I have a few questions.
Before you post, I think it would be best just to stick to the facts and leave the personal opinions out since this is such a heated topic. I would also suggest leaving out the many I'll take it over/Here's the new one posts that have popped up.
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Did other admins offer to take r/IAmA over? I see mention of it by other uses, but all the relevant comments seem to be deleted. Is there something going on in the Admin world that caused the sudden reverse decision or was it personal choice? Since answering could land the admins in hot water with each other, maybe a simple "yes/no" answer would suffice
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isk1tz asks: Would any of the moderators of the other subreddits mind if IAmA's simply got added to the more global reddits like this one: r/reddit.com or is there a specific reason to give them their own subreddit other than volume issues?
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scaredofplanes: A general consensus question for all of reddit: Do IAmA's even need to be regulated? Would the community be interested in a r/IAmAVerified and r/IAmAUnverified ?
Scaredofplanes isn't interested in moderating these subreddits, but has grabbed them to prevent a troll from grabbing them. If there's an interest in 24 hours, he'll change the adminship to someone qualified (otherwise he'll simply delete them).
If any of my questions get answered, I'll try to post the response in this header. Likewise if there is a good question, I'll try to add it so it gets seen. (The questions for the admins / code have been moved to )
Posted Aug 25, 2011, 7:34 PM UTC · edited
r/IamA shutdown? Why? People are still going to post IamAs and people are still going to respond to them. Why cant everyone just assume at all times that any IamA could be fake, and go from there.
That's a good question, similar to this. I'm not sure how to word it "agnostically" so if you could word it differently, I'd gladly add the questions to mine above.
Well you could have 2 sub-reddits, one for verified and one for un-verified but that would still require work on mods part, which sometimes seems just to much to ask from a mod on this site, even though other times they seem to do well at it. Why cant every iama just be an iama. Who cares if its fake, we are not CNN, we are not ABC, we are not a network. This is the internet, where nothing is true and everything is exactly correct. I'm not sure if there really is any other way to word it, although, i have no stake in either side of the argument. If they delete the sub-reddit, nothing will change, the IamAs will just be submitted to reddit.
Good points, I'll try to add them in.