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I'm fully expecting the top comment to be asking why Spez lied about being threatened when the Apollo dev posted the recording of the phone call, and it'll either get removed or left unanswered

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For anyone else curious the dev recorded his conversation with reddit.

https://christianselig.com/apollo-end/reddit-third-call-may-...

https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/144f6xm/apollo_w...

It honestly comes across as a threat to me.

Swap "go quiet" with "be quiet" or "go quietly" and it absolutely is a threat. But that's not what happened, and they clarified it in the call.

Why would you consider the former threatening?

You need to take into consideration the fact that this person had already created a large amount of negative press around this API issue. This means that people at Reddit were already feeling defensive, so when someone said something very similar to a threat then it was more likely to be perceived as a threat.

The reason why this is so alien to so many people is because they refuse to have empathy for a CEO. Reddit is filled to the brim with populist rhetoric about eating the rich. CEOs are profit robots, they don’t have emotional states of mind, duh.

All of this makes complete sense.

I couldn’t care less what happens to Reddit but it sure is interesting to watch everyone get so bent out of shape about a fucking website!

I'm also honestly perplexed how many people didn't think it was a threat.

I initially even thought the outrage at Reddit's CEO was because he got caught on tape asking for $10 mil to 'skip off into the sunset' like a mobster, only to realize it was the Apollo dev LOL

But clearly they didn't continue to consider it as a threat after clarification, according to the transcript?

  Reddit: "Oh. Go quiet as in that. Okay, got it. Got it. Sorry."

  Reddit: "That's a complete misinterpretation on my end. I apologize. I apologize immediately."

Y'all can't behave

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