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The Verge discredited themselves with that whole PC building fiasco, but I'm glad they're covering the reddit debacle. I don't know what the admins are thinking but my suspicion is that they aren't thinking at all.
It's as important as Ethics in Game Journalism!
That's when The Verge (and Polygon) truly discredited themselves. But I'll gladly take them as allies in the fight against reddit.
What's the context? I don't know this story.
They made a pc build video which was bad. Lots of bad stuff in it which you shouldn't do when building a pc, sort of stuff which would make common sense not to do. It got ripped to shreds by other YouTubers who did their own videos about it.
Probably still all on YouTube.
Someone from The Verge made a bad PC assembly video and it became a running gag to dunk on them for it. Apparently the guy did another video with LTT explaining what happened: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKzmYsySGFQ
Jokes aside, The Verge is alright as tech journalism goes.
I was just making a joke, The Verge isn't that bad. I've been reading their articles for years and they're a decent enough outfit as tech journalism goes.
I mean I wouldn't be that harsh on them, they aren't a PC building YouTube channel (and yeah they probably should have never trusted a random guy to make that video for them). Here it's very different, this is about journalism and that guy is their editor in chief.
Yeah, plus the PC build is not as discrediting as it is funny and really cringe to watch.
Great to see this stuff come out about Reddit and journalism as of recent, not like it's our first rodeo with Reddit being pro-censorship.
There is a LinusTechTips Video where they build a PC together (the guy from the original verge video) and he explained what happened. Have nothing but respect for that dude for doing that now...
Oh wow, that's pretty cool of him actually. Thanks for linking the video!
...it was one guy, 5 years ago, and he's not even at The Verge anymore.
It's time to let that go.
What!? That was 5 years ago already???
It's kind of bonkers, isn't it :(
In my mind, 2000 was still 10 years ago...and then I look at what year it currently is. Oof.
Time is sneaky like that.
I am pretty sure nobody actually cares about that video now
I was just teasing anyhow, I've been reading their articles for years. The Verge is alright.
Most people didn't care about it then either, because most people don't make blanket assumptions about a news site based on the content of one author one single time.
considering they have employees saying their CEO needs to go, they are randomly banning users who post things approved by mods and in line with tos, they are banning even the most slimey mods for no reason and the CEO is putting out infinite inflammatory statements in a row, I'm sure the atmosphere in which the admins work is somewhere between -3 and -53.
and all of those things are from news just this week. So of course we'll never know how much the admins are fucking up, but considering all of these things it's like gardening in a tornado. I honestly wouldn't put it on them; can't assume they're all the same as the CEO.