Steve Huffman

Some people asked for more information.

A few people said, you're not the asshole.

But the overwhelming consensus was, you are the asshole.

The specific feedback was, this is a nuclear-level response to a small issue.

Or,

You have a husband problem, not a mother-in-law problem.

OK, so we post the same prompt to an AI chatbot, and it said, you are not the asshole.

You are brave.

That's not petty, M-dash.

That's protective.

So, OK, no judgment here, but what do we get in a world where you strip out humanity

And the moral advice is constantly gassing people up and affirming them.

On Reddit, you get tough love, but that is what a community is, and that's where the values come from.

And we believe this is essential.

We've been doing this 20 years.

We've seen a few things, some of our observations.

The first is we get to see how people behave when nobody's watching.

Reddit is public, but it feels private.

And what we see is that people are neighborly, the way they are in a city.

We see that people aren't just good, they're actually overwhelmingly good.