The moderators of Reddit’s IAmA community are significantly reducing the amount of work they do to help solicit and coordinate AMAs with celebrities and high-profile individuals.
Honestly this is one of those things I'd be fine leaving on reddit. Celebrity worship is gross, and it was never very interesting. 5-6 simple questions answered, promotion of their new book/movie/show, and peace out.
I still fondly remember the days of Victoria helping with facilitating the AMAs. She had a great rapport with all the celebrities and really helped with getting good answers to questions from the community.
I consider her termination to be the moment Reddit started going down the route of putting potential profits above the needs of the community.
They really were, and her loss was immediately noticeable. While we say f-u/spez, we should never forget u/kn0thing and his fuckery with Victoria and the downward slide of Reddit.
This one is really a big deal and people don't really take it so serious, this was actually something that would get a lot of attention for Reddit outside of Reddit. I wouldn't be surprised if the Admins take over the subreddit long term to get that turned around or come up with another solution for it because while celebrity envy is gross it does attract the masses.
I didn't even know they did AMA's anymore. After Victoria left their AMA's were never announced or mentioned. Seems like Reddits failures began long before the exodus.
“But Reddit leadership has all the funds they need to hire people to perform those extra tasks we formerly undertook as volunteer moderators, and we’d be happy to collaborate with them if they choose to do so.”
Hope they charge big bucks for that highly specialised training they've offered.
Seems like Reddit will have the income to pay those moderators. I’d love to see mods ask for compensation to run the site since they are now a for-profit organization.