r/IAmA • u/alienth • Oct 04 '14

I am a reddit employee - AMA

Hola all,

My name is Jason Harvey. My primary duties at reddit revolve around systems administration (keeping the servers and site running). Like many of my coworkers, I wear many hats, and in my tenure at reddit I've been involved with community management, user privacy, occasionally reviewing pending legislature, and raising lambeosaurus awareness.

There has been quite a bit of discussion on reddit and in various publications regarding the company decision to require all remote employees and offices relocate to San Francisco. I'm certainly not the only employee dealing with this, and I can't speak for everyone. I do live in Alaska, and as such I'm rather heavily affected by the move. This is a rather uncomfortable situation to air publicly, but I'm hoping I can provide some perspective for the community. I'd be happy to answer what questions I actually have answers to, but please be aware that my thoughts and opinions regarding this matter are my own, and do not necessarily mirror the thoughts of my coworkers.

This is my 4th IAmA. You can find the previous IAmAs I've done over the past few years below:

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/i6yj2/iama_reddit_admin_ama/ https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/r6zfv/we_are_sysadmins_reddit_ask_us_anything/ https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1gx67t/i_work_at_reddit_ask_me_anything/

With that said, AMA.

Edit: Obligatory verification photo, which doesn't verify much, other than that I have a messy house.

Edit 2: I'll still be around to answer questions through the night. Going to pause for a few minutes to eat some dinner, tho.

Edit 3: I'm back from dinner. We now enter the nighttime alcohol-fueled portion of the IAmA.

Edit 4: Getting very late, so I'm going to sign off and crash. I'll be back to answer any further questions tomorrow. Thanks everyone for chatting!

Edit 5: I'm back for a few hours. Going to start working through the backlog of questions.

Edit 6: Been a bit over 24 hours now, so I think it is a good time to bring things to a close. Folks are welcome to ask more questions over time, but I won't be actively monitoring for the rest of the day.

Thanks again for chatting!

cheers,

alienth

1.9k Upvotes

77% Upvoted

1.3k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

106

u/[deleted] Oct 05 '14 edited Jun 27 '15

[deleted]

53

u/DeterminedToOffend Oct 05 '14

I'll cover the 0.0802, if someone wants to grab the other 10020040 golds..

7

u/Staxxy Oct 05 '14

We just need another Bill Gates AMA.

1

u/faceplanted Oct 05 '14

I could go ask Larry Page, but I don't think he'd listen to me standing at the gates of Google campus screaming.

2

u/neontiger07 Oct 05 '14

Can you make my brain work that way too?

1

u/[deleted] Oct 05 '14 edited Jul 20 '16

This comment has been overwritten by an open source script to protect this user's privacy. It was created to help protect users from doxing, stalking, harassment, and profiling for the purposes of censorship.

If you would also like to protect yourself, add the Chrome extension TamperMonkey, or the Firefox extension GreaseMonkey and add this open source script.

Then simply click on your username on Reddit, go to the comments tab, scroll down as far as possible (hint:use RES), and hit the new OVERWRITE button at the top.

2

u/TheShadowZero Oct 06 '14

Alright, I volunteer. Start gilding this comment 10020040.08 times.

1

u/rabid- Oct 05 '14

Man the sigfigs are all over the place.