shish_mish@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agoHow social media’s biggest user protest rocked Redditwww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square68fedilinkarrow-up1316arrow-down127cross-posted to: technology@lemmy.world
arrow-up1289arrow-down1external-linkHow social media’s biggest user protest rocked Redditwww.theguardian.comshish_mish@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agomessage-square68fedilinkcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.world
minus-squareZectivi@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up76·edit-211 months ago In response to such critiques, Reddit spokesperson Rathschmidt said he did not “know of an industry benchmark for scoring content quality”. (Emphasis mine) This is the same tone deaf response I’ve come to expect from Reddit for some time now, and is why I’m happy to no longer be a user of their platform.
minus-squareAltima NEO@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up26·edit-211 months agoThat same quote caught my eye. It’s just bullshit. Of course they’re no quantitative way to measure quality on a qualitative scale. Any long time user can see there’s not much going on like there used to be.
(Emphasis mine)
This is the same tone deaf response I’ve come to expect from Reddit for some time now, and is why I’m happy to no longer be a user of their platform.
That same quote caught my eye. It’s just bullshit. Of course they’re no quantitative way to measure quality on a qualitative scale. Any long time user can see there’s not much going on like there used to be.