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What is the role of AMAs on ~tildes?
Given the role such threads have played in Reddit's community engagement and publicity, what will fill a similar role here?
Given the role such threads have played in Reddit's community engagement and publicity, what will fill a similar role here?
Do we need to fill that role? Tildes won't have the popularity to attract celebrities for a while, if ever, and AMAs already work fine on Reddit.
Honestly I enjoyed AMAs the most when it wasn't simply a platform for Celebrity and Political PR campaigns.
There was a sweet spot while Victoria was still there and Reddit was known to internet folk but before it was in the top 10 (or whatever) most visited websites. There were some PR campaigns, but not like now.
From my understanding, /r/iama used to be more about “hey, I’m a redditor with something unique about me, ask me anything” so you’d have people who work on Wall Street or have sailed around the world or were present for some historical event. It doesn’t need to be celebrities, although those can be fun for different reasons.
Absolutely. I love the AMAs about jobs I'd never otherwise know about, or don't even exist where I am. From wait staff to ocean-bottom divers... those are the ones that stick out.
But, enough of that. Let's talk about Rampart.
It’s a possibility to consider though
AMAs don't need to be celebrities. They could just be an expert in their field. That would probably be better for what Tildes is trying to do anyway.
I think the inclusion of AMAs that are less a venue for marketing and celebrity could be a net benefit. More in the vein of IAMA.
We're looking at the option
According to spez, that was because the mods specificslly abused their powers to bump up their AMAs.
According to the mods, they did that because all other methods to get visibility got broken, in particular the rate limiting of how many posts could hit the front page from a sub made it hard to get high profile AMA:s posted late in a day to get traction. So many high profile AMA:s got unreasonably few participants. All because discoverability is trash.
Keep in mind that Tildes is not meant to be a Reddit replacement, so something that worked on Reddit doesn't necessarily mean it will translate to Tildes.
I would be accepting of it as long as it brings in more quality content.
Like how r/IAMA originally was, now it's 99% PR campaigns.