It's a much bigger idea than this one list, however people don't seem to 'get it' unless I show them an example list on a topic they love. I want to do the same for all of Voat. And then all of reddit. And then...well, I'd better not say lest you think I'm crazy :)
If you have a solution, this is the best way to do it. You won't get the reputation points for it but when somebody is Googling for that problem, they will be happy you stuck it on your blog. That is the goal, isn't it? To help people?
With regard to Victoria, she ran the AMA's and was very popular with redditors. Think of it like a sports team cutting a really popular player, without offering an explanation. The fanbase would be really unhappy about that. And this is what reddit does when it's unhappy about something.
The Ellen Pao stuff is complicated, she does have some fault for being the one who made unpopular decisions and the way she managed the process (particularly extremely poor communication) but in general I agree that she gets way too much criticism from the community. She's very unpopular for a bunch of things that are not actually her fault (like people who incorrectly think she censors reddit).
I would say it's a good start. Where she goes from here will be what matters. If she goes silent in the weeks and months ahead it will be clear this was just damage control. If she regularly engages the community, as she should, then she'll be on the right track.
See Zuck and his regular 'town hall meetings' on his public news feed. She does nothing like that. The only times we hear from her are when she has an announcement or is forced to respond to heavy criticism.
>Conceptually, we believe that embedded mining will ultimately establish bitcoin as a fundamental system resource on par with CPU, bandwidth, hard drive space, and RAM.
>the commonly agreed best subs use extensive vigorous modding
Do you include TIL among those? I do. Best sub there is.
The only they they use 'extensive vigorous modding' for is verifying whether titles follow the rules. And ~100% of that is based on user reports, they just double-check.
Aside from that, there is 0 moderation, other than for sitewide rule violations. You can say anything_you_want in comments and they will take no action.
>Downtown LV is quite far from the strip, so tourists aren't going to stumble on it
Downtown Vegas is a tourist destination on it's own, regardless of the Downtown Project. Fremont East is a popular spot, all of those bars, the Cortez etc. Container Park is in a good location. You want to see isolated, go checkout Switch.
I don't believe his identity is public but unless Atko has been spinning an elaborate lie, plenty is known about him and Voat. He's a Swedish student who went to college in Switzerland and this was a side project that blew up on him, not unlike how Facebook started. He just graduated from college, went on vacation with his family and is now headed back to Switzerland to run this like a real company.
I agree that the best case scenario for Voat is to inevitably do exactly what reddit is doing now, whether he realizes it or not. That's how it works. Right now Voat is amazing. I'm enjoying it while it lasts.
-The migration to Voat has been underway for a long time
-It's a lot more than the "slimey runoff" -- it's people who care about free speech and people who don't like the direction reddit is headed.
-Voat is actually a really cool site for non-free speech reasons[1] and word is getting out about that.
[1] they throttle downvotes resulting in them being rare. Which makes it not the circlejerk reddit is, where unpopular opinions are buried. The small size of the site also makes everything much more of a conversation and not a competition to be heard and seen like reddit.
If they started charging a monthly fee to use the app enough people would stick around that they'd be able to buy a sizable % of all the liquor stores in the USA. How many, I don't know. That would make an interesting interview question.
Edit: gonna try it
My city has 500,000 people. I'm going to estimate there are 500 liquor stores here. So that's 1 per 1,000 people. The USA has 330 million people, thus 330,000 liquor stores.
A liquor store is probably worth about $50,000. Thus, they are all worth $16.5 billion.
Whatsapp has 800 million MAU's. If 2% of them convert to $10 a month paying customers, that is $160 million per month.
They could run that business much cheaper than the current one, so say 50 employees at $10k a month each. $500k a month. Double that for hosting and rent etc. $1 million a month.
Those costs seem way too low in relation to revenue so let's just bump that up to 50% of revenue. $80 million/month.
So $80 million per month profit. Or over 2 liquor stores per hour, 24/7/365. In about 15 years they'd own every liquor store in America.
All they'd have to do is start running ads to show how absurd what you just said is.
I find it laughable that in 2015 people are still claiming companies strategically delaying monetization have worthless businesses. They care about long term growth, not money in the hand. See Facebook and Twitter. And a bunch of other companies.
So first you wanted to know if they had revenue. You got our answer and now you want to know why so many people are paying them money.
You know the answers to all of these things. Just come out and say what you think about Github and their business model instead of wasting our time answering these supposed questions.