Archived Should Voat approach Victoria (former Reddit AMA admin) about working for Voat? (ideasforvoat)
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Archived Should Voat approach Victoria (former Reddit AMA admin) about working for Voat? (ideasforvoat)
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[–] CathyTheGreatsHorse 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
I don't understand why the big "managed" Reddit AMAs need to be brought here. I found two types of AMAs interesting, and neither of them required management.
The best were the AMAs by average humans who just had interesting jobs or something that made them unique. Such as the pizza delivery guy. He was an excellent story-teller and had spent a lot of time observing the human condition.
The others I liked where the celebrities who actually handled the AMA themselves or at least stayed in the fucking room while the answers were put together. Bear Grylls and Snoop Dog were outstanding.
But the ones where some jackass moderator "verified" that Morgan Freeman's actual secretary was going to do the AMA by having her send in a picture of him asleep (which set the tone for the entire affair), or invited Woody Harrelson to do an interview about his new movie without explaining what the letters AMA stand for, those are just asinine.
[–] ChillyHellion [S] ago
It sounds like that's a lot of what Victoria prevented from happening though. The Rampart AMA happened before her time and was the result of miscommunication of what an AMA is. Part of what Victoria did was make sure that AMAs were answered directly and not by agents on someone's behalf. There is coordination involved with getting a celebrity on an AMA, and many celebrities may not have even heard of Reddit before they are approached. Casual AMAs require a lot less overhead, but Voat would need to be much bigger and more mainstream than even Reddit is in order to attract public figures organically.
[–] CathyTheGreatsHorse 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Well if she actually did all that, then she would be fantastic. Still, I think the only possible way to get a good AMA from Woody Harelson is if a pizza delivery guy impersonated him.