Steve Huffman, the CEO of Reddit, has decided to just keep on talking. After his disastrous AMA helped inspire more subreddits to join a 48 hour blackout, and his dismissal of the protesting subred…
I saw somewhere that the analogy was supposed to be “whoever got there first owned the land.” The idea I guess is that the landed gentry settled down on the land (subreddits) first, and now the subreddit is a dictatorship because the users could never vote on who their “landlords” are.
Yes, that analogy is also terrible, and it also goes to show that spez has no idea why people hate landlords.
Edit: everyone that’s replied to me has provided more reasons why it’s a stupid analogy, and that makes me happy :)
But that analogy would make Spez the king who rules over all the lands of Reddit-tania, doling favors out to people who support him and punishment out to those who oppose him no matter what the people of Reddit-tania want.
Wait, maybe the analogy has some merit to it after all.
Thank you, your explanation made some sense of this metaphor. I’m not familiar with this period of British history, so this metaphor shot right over me. Either way, I’m interested to see how the voting goes.
in practically all cases, the “landed gentry” were not there first - they mostly obtained title to their estates via political manipulation and legal skullduggery or, if they could get away with it, outright slaughter of the previous occupants.
I saw somewhere that the analogy was supposed to be “whoever got there first owned the land.” The idea I guess is that the landed gentry settled down on the land (subreddits) first, and now the subreddit is a dictatorship because the users could never vote on who their “landlords” are.
Yes, that analogy is also terrible, and it also goes to show that spez has no idea why people hate landlords.
Edit: everyone that’s replied to me has provided more reasons why it’s a stupid analogy, and that makes me happy :)
But that analogy would make Spez the king who rules over all the lands of Reddit-tania, doling favors out to people who support him and punishment out to those who oppose him no matter what the people of Reddit-tania want.
Wait, maybe the analogy has some merit to it after all.
Thank you, your explanation made some sense of this metaphor. I’m not familiar with this period of British history, so this metaphor shot right over me. Either way, I’m interested to see how the voting goes.
It’s also just not how landed gentry work, strictly speaking. So it’s a terrible analogy on multiple fronts.
in practically all cases, the “landed gentry” were not there first - they mostly obtained title to their estates via political manipulation and legal skullduggery or, if they could get away with it, outright slaughter of the previous occupants.