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Fired Reddit Exec Launches Competing Site (thenextweb.com)
An anonymous reader writes: "Dan McComas, the former second-in-command at Reddit -- and vocal critic of its more inflammatory groups -- wants to build a better Reddit, one that focuses on 'healthy, positive communities,'" reports TheNextWeb. Raising $3 million, Imzy.com quietly launched earlier this year with over 500 discussion forums, aspiring to become an advertising-free space where content creators can interact with their fans. Moderators and users of Imzy can be "tipped" with online payments from other users, while the site hopes to remain advertising-free by taking a cut from on-site transactions. But "at its core though, Imzy wants to provide a safe place to share and discuss without the fear of being harassed, a problem Reddit has struggled with for several years."
I clicked the link and visited the site. It looks like it was designed for Barney fans.
I understand the value of a place like this. A positive, clean environment where I can feel safe. I'm tired of the harassment and constant fighting I see in other sites. I can't wait to join. I just have a quick question. The lobotomy, does it come free with membership or do I have to pay separately?
If video games influenced behavior the Pac Man generation would be eating pills and running away from their problems.
Because porn is better when it has been uuencoded, just like records sound better than CDs.
Reminds me of a newspaper startup back in the 80's(?) called Good News, that only printed uplifting and cheerful stories. Needless to say that experiment didn't last long.
Both editions are now collector's items.
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
I give him points for thinking outside the box and attempting to monetize 'the crazy'. If he can draw them all, the rest of the web will thank him.
Think about the % that 'gofundme' and other spamhandling/begging web sites get, just for being a virtual highway on-ramp. This is that, plus mod bombing for pennies/downmod. All he needs to do is implement 'peak mod pricing', for when the pissing contests get heavy and he's richer than the pope.
John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
No dissenting opinions allowed. The biggest progressive echo chamber imaginable, where no one is allowes to question this ideology. And no one is allowed to say anything remotely controversial or offensive because it might "trigger" someone's negative feelings and cause untold "psychological" damage.
Oh... so basically /.
I just signed up for an invite. Can't wait to troll them hard.
Which is why I'm registered in as a mulitracial trans 'man' refugee, rape and FGM survivor.
Bow to my hormonally enlarged clitoral stub.
tits or gtfo, newfag!
- Don't do what I do, it's probably not healthy nor safe. -
A community where minorities and women are gods and the straight white man is not allowed unless he denigrates his own kind to bow to his new overlords.
Jesus, butt-hurt and whiny much?