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The Reddit moderators who coordinate many celebrity AMAs will no longer do so, The mods of r/IAmA are stepping back (www.theverge.com)
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[โ€“] Arotrios@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ya know, I was thinking about it, and the only really good content in AMA was when things went horribly wrong. The AMAs that went smoothly were actually kinda meh. So that being said, this might actually be a net win for Reddit in the short term. Everyone loves to watch a trainwreck... ain't that right, Spez?

[โ€“] 1chemistdown@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Back when Victoria was running the show, there were so many great AMAs. So many amazing scientists would do them, and as a chemist it was great seeing so many high profile scientists there. That all went away