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Alexis is not helping matters either: https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/3bwgjf/riam...

Interesting fact w/r/t how pissed people are at him on Reddit: people have gone back and downvoted every single one of his comments now, to the point that several pages back his comments (typically which get upvoted like crazy) are in the negatives.

https://www.reddit.com/user/kn0thing?count=25&after=t1_cslum...

This seems over blown

Still, it is only symbolic. Not that internet points are really that important anyway but seeing as his last posts are already 4 days old, all this reactionary downvoting will do nothing to his overall "karma". After 2 days, a downvote will not reduce your karma. So yeah, all this does is show the rest that apparently there are a lot of upset people out there.

> All this does is show the rest that apparently there are a lot of upset people out there.

Which is actually important; if you run the site and your comments have a -2000 karma your users are telling you a very clear message that something isn't right.

I guess people take their pointless internet comments way too seriously.

Kind of funny. On the one hand the angry mobs want their freeze peach. On the other hand they seem awfully touchy about people, well, exercising their free speech.

Later on he says it was dumb of him, then goes on to plead:

"At this point, however, the blackout has served its purpose, and now it’s time to get Reddit functioning again"

And downplays it as just a moderator-reddit communication issue. Right.

i see people talking about alexis, but don't see a user named alexis posting in this thread. i assume alexis uses a handle other than his/her name?

Alexis Ohanian is one of the cofounders of Reddit who had left and has since returned as Executive Chair, he's also a current partner at YC, and goes by the username kn0thing on Reddit & HN.

https://www.crunchbase.com/person/alexis-ohanian

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=kn0thing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPBk4jMLZ5o

kn0thing is a play on Alexis' favorite Metallica song....

"King Nothing"

Alexis goes by kn0thing on reddit.

kn0thing

can there be a site owner who treats his site users with respect? Same thing with zuckerberg calling fb users idiots....

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