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Seriously thinking this was a result of the Jesse Jackson interview. Likely the new Reddit is going to cater to celebrities and politicians in such a way that the idea of AMA isn't going to be unfiltered anymore. I would expect them to sell AMAs that are wholly staged/filtered/etc just like any political press conference. With the upcoming elections its to be expected, the slant of the current reddit is very obvious and its a new SJW paradise of late.

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What's odd is that it was the Jesse Jackson AMA that was the straw that broke the camel's back, so to speak. There have been far worse AMAs than that. (e.g. the infamous Woody Harrelson Rampart AMA)

/r/amadisasters has a good list of them: http://www.reddit.com/r/amadisasters

EDIT: Response from Alexis: https://np.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/3bw39q/why_has...

Ellen Pao didn't become interim CEO until November 2014, and it took a while still to start enacting her plan... So its not that odd that this was finally the one that broke the camels back, considering the timeline of who's been CEO when.

I remember Microsoft's AMA. I agreed with many sentiments but felt sad for Microsoft PR in the end. If this was the final straw of "mishandled AMA's" (seriously? what does AMA stand for again? don't go there if your kind of celebrity status / personality can't handle this elegantly), I think it had to do with the sensitive nature of religion. I don't doubt Jesse Jackson's team have capacity to put some pressure on reddit. Ugh. Then again, just speculation. Part of the problem is that they aren't speaking.

I agree with just about everything you said except for Reddit being an SJW paradise. There's definitely a loud contingent of them but most of the main board threads on controversial topics slant pretty far in the opposite direction. Your milage will vary by which subreddits you hang out in, though.

Karmanaut is one of the few default mods who allows fairly "contentious" comments to stay up. As long as he is top mod of /r/IAmA I don't think that will change.

Given that Reddit just nearly imploded due to "censorship," this is probably a fair policy.

There was a lot of noise about censorship but I think 'nearly imploded' is a bit dramatic.. There was no noticeable decrease in traffic or uniques:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/about/traffic

(Some data was lost from DB corruption, but if you add back round numbers, they're right on trend again)

That was purposefully hyperbolic. :P

The dramawave of more perceived censorship would actually be somewhat funny.

Reddit is really going down the toilet.

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