In his first interview since thousands of so-called subreddits went dark in protest. Huffman said he is not going to reverse his plan to start charging for outside access to Reddit data.
In his first interview since thousands of so-called subreddits went dark in protest. Huffman said he is not going to reverse his plan to start charging for outside access to Reddit data.
Yeah, and this is exactly what has me so confused over the whole situation. He could not have handled the spin on this any worse, so it really looks like he wasnt even trying.
There’s such a big difference between making an unpopular decision and deriding and alienating massive parts of your user-base. I can believe that he’s so out of touch that he didn’t see how it could play out this way, but does he have such unilateral power that he’s allowed to dictate reddit policy single-handedly?
Like, is there nobody else in the company that could have said, “Sp0z, that’s going to end horribly, if you say that”. Are CEOs just kings now? Completely untouchable? I thought it was just the ones that got their position from injecting capital, so nobody says anything to them in fear that they’ll pull the plug.