[mtc010170]

Watch out folks - critical discussions about Reddit seem to be getting flagged as flame bait. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36347400

Idk why. We should be able to have a civilized, intellectually curious discussion about this. The future of Reddit (and its implications for the future of the Internet) is pretty on-topic to me for HN.

@dang can we get a stance on this?

[silcoon]

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/reddit

[andreareina]

> We moderate less, not more, when YC or a YC-related startup is the story

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34937269

[ShamelessC]

There's really no reason for them to be honest about this sort of thing and I've seen plenty of shady shit from moderation here to make me distrust them.

Which isn't me asking for an explanation/stance. However trustworthy you find the moderation to be here, any explanation they give is inherently biased towards an obvious desire to remain employed.

From my perspective - this is a forum/social media site that is popular and _not_ infested with ads. It seems obvious to me that what they do gain is influence with a certain group of people (investors) and as a filter/brain-drain/funnel for entrepreneurs.

[lawn]

It strikes me as incredibly naive to believe them.

[tinus_hn]

It’s quite possible that people are just flagging these stories because it’s not interesting enough to facilitate 20 discussions without it turning into threads with 500 comments rehashing the same arguments.

Reddit might be a big deal to you but many people over here just don’t care and they don’t want to see topic after topic about a site they don’t care about. And it’s going to have the same impact on the ‘future of the internet’ as the demise of Digg. Not a whole lot really, sites come and go, in a year nobody cares. Remember MySpace?

[Seattle3503]

Reddit is a big deal to me, I moderate multiple subreddits with 6 figure subscriber counts, from a third party app. With that said, the discussion on HN is basically played out. There isn't a lot new to say.

[tester457]

In this more mature internet, a demise of reddit would be more impactful.

"Google is getting a lot worse because of the Reddit blackouts" [1]

Digg never had this influence, nor a decade plus of useful threads with information not found anywhere else.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36319392

[midoridensha]

There's several Reddit-executive boot-lickers here in the comments. They're probably flagging the discussions.