They coordinated to downvote all of my answers into oblivion, as Reddit’s platform hides content that has been excessively downvoted. They quickly overtook the page with bad faith “questions”, gotchas, twisted accusations, and insulting and abusive comments. I barely started the AMA on Reddit before the troll brigade arrived. I shudder to think what the worst of it is, Reddit is vile beyond belief The site tagline is “Reddit gives you the best of the internet in one place”. My Reddit AMA “proof”, taken before I had any idea what trauma was about to transpire. When I announced on Twitter that I would be doing a Reddit AMA, I even got a few good questions there: about COVID and re-opening, collaboration with social media platforms, crowdsourcing of Block Party’s filters. Or about diversity and inclusion, especially as I just released a course for startup founders. Perhaps I would get questions about what I’ve learned from building and running a distributed team, or other lessons from working in Silicon Valley and then leaving for less tech-saturated locales.
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I thought it would be a good opportunity to share more about how I came to be working on Block Party and to engage in genuine discourse about the problem of online harassment and our product thinking on how to solve it. When someone first suggested the idea of going on Reddit, I instinctively recoiled from the idea, knowing the site’s reputation - but I ignored my intuition and last week I went in naively optimistic about doing an AMA (“ask me anything”) question and answer session in the subreddit r/IAmA/. I was so foolishly optimistic about how a Reddit AMA might go And all the same, it was a torturous way to re-learn a lesson I’ve already had beaten into my psyche from more than 15 years of online bullying, hate, abuse, and stalking. It was the perfect case in point for why we’re building what we’re building at Block Party. The irony is not lost on me that I incited a tidal wave of harassment from Reddit’s cesspit of toxicity because I went in there to talk about working on anti-harassment software.