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Why was the AMA posted on /r/AMA instead of /r/IAMA? Certainly the future CEO of GitHub is notable enough for the latter subreddit.

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I assume that's just an embarrassing mistake on the part of Github's PR team.

There's really no reason that a CEO currently making headlines should be on /r/AMA instead of r/IAMA (70x more users).

It's worth noting that until the deal closes, Nat isn't actually part of GitHub. That would make it the Microsoft PR team or his deal -- not GitHub's.

That makes less sense as Microsoft has done some excellent AMAs with the Excel team:

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/3rid26/we_are_the_mic...

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/777mb6/we_are_the_mic...

You might be overestimating the coordination between different teams at Microsoft :) It's a big company. I doubt there is any overlap between the people involved in the Excel IAMAs and Nat's

That is true; when I looked, I thought MSFT did more AMAs than just Excel.

Eh, I wouldn't be surprised if they're already working together. PR teams are used to cross-company collaboration.

Not known the intricacies of reddit is probably better than the reverse, toxic as reddit is.

Honestly, I'd lean towards /r/AMA to get a higher signal-to-noise ratio & limit trolling. The smaller user base means you're more likely to bring genuinely interested parties into the conversation -- people watching the related twitter feeds & so on.

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