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0 pointsfalcolas2y ago0 comments

The internet forgets too quickly. And so long as Reddit can present a "everything's awesome" front, their IPO will likely take off.

Having /r/Pics down permanently because of a protest would be a problem, but a poorly moderated /r/Pics would not. The quality would just go down, and Reddit would get a good justification for locking it down.

"No, /r/Pics wasn't shut down because of the protest, it was shut down because there were too many law-breaking posts. And you know how tough we have to be on those kinds of posts."

At least, that's my take on how most investors would look at it. Investors love companies who focus on profitability, regardless of their long term perspective.

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phpisthebest2y ago

There seems to be a disconnect to what I am saying...

You seem to believe a low quality /r/pics would bring in traffic, even more weirdly you seem to believe the admins shutting down /r/pics because of illegal content, is better for profitability then it being shut down because of a protest, not sure how that works....

Traffic, and users drive profitablity, High Quality User Generated content drives that traffic and attracts users

If reddit loses high quality user generated content, there is no traffic, and thus there is nothing to sell to be profitable, no ads, not API, nothing

it would not matter if /r/pics was shutdown in protest, or shutdown because of poor moderation, it is still shut down, and thus no profits from it.

investors love companies that are profitable, especially right now when the cost of capital is very high. "focusing on profitability" is not the same as delivering profitability. Investors right now want results, not power points about how they project the results being

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