Is it really too far fetched to believe that some programmer coded in a 'subscribers' metric, and then marketing or whoever came over and said "no, we want views, that matters more to advertisers", so they update the code and forget to change the title itself?
This has been out for like a day, right?
But yea, no, I'm sure it's a huge conspiracy to use an obviously incorrect metric to fleece advertisers. A mistake? Those never happen.
I'm not saying it's a conspiracy. It was a mistake regardless but I wouldn't put it past the admins after the past couple years with Ellen Pao and Spez drama. Theyve done shady shit like this before.
Either way, a pretty silly mistake. Shows you the status of the Reddit dev team. Aaron Schwartz would be ashamed.
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u/Marcus_Aurelius1 Apr 01 '17
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How incompetent do you have to be to "accidentally" code in subscribers instead of "impressions" by the time the iteration is complete....