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Comment by tedmiston | Hacker News Reader

Still, in terms of the normal transparency level of an AMA, this one reads to me like he has a crisis PR person sitting right next to him filtering his replies.

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It seems he may be pasting pre-written answers: https://old.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/145bram/addressing_...

It wouldn’t surprise me if someone is copying questions into a GDoc for him and then he’s dictating the replies in the GDoc, so they’re using a Q/A format.

These don’t read as prepared answers to me.

good point, thanks

I think the copy/paste from a filtered doc is a common setup for highly popular AMAs.

I mean the post has 14,000 comments and it's only been live for 2 hours...

Reddit's UI is just not good at that use case or threads with that amount of comments.

Well... the old UI is perfectly good at it. The new UI not so much.

Let's not pretend the old ui is good, it's just not as bad as the replacements.

I disagree. It sounds like he’s shooting from the hip to me.

If there’s a crisis PR person there, they’ve faked it until they made it.

I can't comprehend how a crisis PR person would see the comment asking about Apollo and make the suggestion Steve pointlessly double down on the same accusation.

There are multiple people in the comments here that are defending the Reddit CEO. Sadly him doubling down seems to be working...

More likely they’re still in the “fake it” phase.

No PR professional would have let him answer the Apollo question in the way he did. That made everything much worse.

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