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TrumpImpeachedAugust35 karma

Your fingers often get quite dirty over the course of your work. How do you protect the camera you use to film?

TrumpImpeachedAugust33 karma

Hello, Mr. Worden.

I've been to KSC multiple times, ultimately getting an annual pass! I love the Center and always look forward to seeing and learning new things when I visit.

Many people dismiss space travel with arguments along the lines of "why should we spend so much money in space when we still have problems here on Earth?"

In your opinion, what would be the greatest scientific/research benefit of resuming human-manned missions to the moon?

TrumpImpeachedAugust22 karma

This is a rare example of a rule that has notification in place. Most automod rules don't alert the user.

It happens so frequently that I've gotten in the habit of immediately opening every comment I write in a new browser without reddit logged in. It's shocking how often something will have been removed immediately and silently by auto-mod.

There are so many automated rules in place that you'd never have predicted. For instance, multiple major subreddits draw lines above a certain number of characters being displayed in bold or italic text. If you include too many such characters without realizing it, you'll trigger an anti-spam rule and have your comment silently removed.

Lots of subreddits have rules meant to prevent political discussion, which I get. But it results in the instant removal of innocuous comments like "make sure you apply a liberal amount of soap" in response to someone talking about washing something.

You will still see the comment while logged in. But no one else will, and no one will tell you it was removed.

TrumpImpeachedAugust17 karma

It was an example of one way that wealthy people sometimes fail at the most important thing that capitalism is supposed to reward them for: being selfish. Spez wanted to sacrifice authenticity for the sake of profits via partnerships and sponsorships. This was a bad business decision.

Reddit runs a business that depends upon a certain kind of authentic exchange with the majority of humans who interface with them (phrased this way to specifically avoid calling users "customers," which most of us are not).

When this is the case for any business, every decision needs to have the support of support of the majority of humans who interface with them. Ignoring this fact means incurring a huge long-term risk. There's just no way around it.

Spez is/was trying to make reddit profitable. I'm sure there could have been a way to do this without sacrificing the user experience. He's just completely failed to figure out what that would have involved. Instead, he imagined a scenario in his head that would have increased profits, if the user base and moderator teams didn't have any strong opinions about his decision.

He tried to be selfish. He's just abjectly bad at it. It's like watching a young child eat the entire tub of ice cream and then not understand why they've gotten in trouble as a result.

TrumpImpeachedAugust4 karma

Thank you so much for your answer!