Steve Huffman, the CEO of Reddit, has decided to just keep on talking. After his disastrous AMA helped inspire more subreddits to join a 48 hour blackout, and his dismissal of the protesting subred…
Huffman is using some really disingenuous arguments.
“The protest, what it really affects is the everyday users, most of whom aren’t involved in this or the changes that spurred this,” Huffman said.
This is simply always going to be true about anything because of the Pareto Principle or the 80/20 rule. 80% of the content is created by 20% of the users. So when a large negative change like this exists it will be that 20% that are affected the most and react the strongest.
So he’s right most users aren’t involved but users representing most of the content creation and thus, the entertaining content that drives views and revenue for Reddit, ARE affected.
Huffman is either being disingenuous or he’s ignorant of some pretty fundamental concepts that govern populations. Either way, not a person you’d want leading a public social media company .
Huffman is using some really disingenuous arguments.
This is simply always going to be true about anything because of the Pareto Principle or the 80/20 rule. 80% of the content is created by 20% of the users. So when a large negative change like this exists it will be that 20% that are affected the most and react the strongest.
So he’s right most users aren’t involved but users representing most of the content creation and thus, the entertaining content that drives views and revenue for Reddit, ARE affected.
Huffman is either being disingenuous or he’s ignorant of some pretty fundamental concepts that govern populations. Either way, not a person you’d want leading a public social media company .