Pres Obama doing AMA on Reddit

[heightsyankee]

www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/z1c9z/i_am_barack_obama_president_of_the_united_states/

[basilosaurus]

They're claiming it's confirmed. This is awesome.

[Dumbledork]

Whaaaaat. I know it's a cheap ploy to get votes, still. I love this man for being on Reddit.

[pixy0stix]

Different format and I'm struggling to read. Someone hold my hand!

[heightsyankee]

I agree- not easy to follow but I'm loving it

[basilosaurus]

I should be all hey, i just drove past Punahou, shout out to your alma mater. And then I'd like to think he would answer, and I'd feel special.

[pixy0stix]

LOL! Ok, I still have no idea what's going on, but I love all the "WHAT?! No really, who is this?" questions.

Also, I would like him to come here.

[dev22]

Aug 29, 2012 15:35:18 GMT -5 basilosaurus said:

I should be all hey, i just drove past Punahou, shout out to your alma mater. And then I'd like to think he would answer, and I'd feel special.

Did I tell you that we took pictures of flat Romney on the campus? Ha.

[Dumbledork]

I love this...

"Do you intend to release the White House Honey Ale recipe as requested in this petition? If not, why do you hate freedom?"

[copzgirl1171]

Copzson is all over it. Thanks ladies!!

[pixy0stix]

Aug 29, 2012 15:39:28 GMT -5 @copzgirl1171 said:

Copzson is all over it. Thanks ladies!!

He might have to translate for all us other people that are lost. I don't speak Reddit.

[pixy0stix]

Aug 29, 2012 15:40:22 GMT -5 @majorwife said:

www.reddit.com/user/PresidentObama

Much easier to wade through.

[pixy0stix]

and it crashed like the nest. whomp whomp.

[copzgirl1171]

Aug 29, 2012 15:40:40 GMT -5 pixy0stix said:

Aug 29, 2012 15:39:28 GMT -5 @copzgirl1171 said:

Copzson is all over it. Thanks ladies!!

He might have to translate for all us other people that are lost. I don't speak Reddit.

Ha! He spends a ton of time on it. Also, this makes me love BO almost as much as I did when he INVITED HIMSELF to do my local sports radio talk show. Google Common Man 97.1 The Fan.

[ttt]

This is so so awesome.

[Dumbledork]

Basically, if you up-vote a comment it gets pushed to the top of the thread. Does that help at all? I'm not sure what else is hard to understand. I've only been on Reddit for a few months though.

[pixy0stix]

The format itself, and reading through all the threads, isn't very linear for me. I'm getting it though.

[basilosaurus]

I really want to see him address the science questions. There are some good ones in there.

[smock]

Majorly cool. I'm a little disappointed that I saw no questions on women's rights, gender equality, or abortion. Especially considering that there were approximately a million questions on legalizing marijuana.

[emisi]

He gave one of the honey ales to someone at a campaign stop. Bet you good money that sucker was up on eBay within the hour.

[EllieArroway]

This totally made my nerd heart skip a beat.

[Deleted]

Very cool.

[meshaliuknits]

Aug 29, 2012 16:42:22 GMT -5 EllieArroway said:

This totally made my nerd heart skip a beat.

right?

[charminglife]

Just saw this on Buzzfeed:

How Reddit Got Obama: “There Are Quite a Few Redditors at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

Question No. 1: Yup, that’s really Barack Obama, taking questions over at a Reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything).

Question No. 2: It was really no big deal, says Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, via email:

There’s not a lot to it. I’ve gotten to know quite a few folks in the WH & Obama campaign team over the years and it was always something I brought up when I got the chance. There are quite a few redditors at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave and at the campaign HQ — given the prominence of reddit, it’s an easy sell.

Questions 2A, 2B, 2C: It’s not really that easy, is it? When did you start talking about this for real? Any special conditions on this one?

Years ago, but that was being rather ambitious. It started coming up from their side over the last year or so. A little while ago we randomly get a ping saying “POTUS is doing an AMA.” Nothing different about this, except for keeping it a secret. Also, the President only has thirty minutes or so to answer questions, which we made sure they said up front, because it’s pretty reasonable given his dayjob (we can’t all spend our days reading reddit).

Next up, Romney?

Question No. 3: The Reddit site seems to be holding up okay — over on Twitter, I’m seeing some griping about the site buckling under the traffic load, but presumably the Reddit gang anticipated the surge.

Question No. 4: Obama and his team also seem to know what they’ve gotten themselves into. Reddit’s AMA format is famously unruly and free-wheeling. But so far Obama seems to be handling it just fine. After all, it’s up to him to figure out which questions he wants to answer — if he doesn’t want an uncomfortable “boxers or briefs” moment, he can control that. Not surprisingly, every answer he’s offered up so far has been studiously on-message.

allthingsd.com/20120829/how-reddit-got-obama-there-are-quite-a-few-redditors-at-1600-pennsylvania-ave/