Reddit’s golden geese foul up its IPO plans
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Thousands of moderators overseeing the site’s subreddits are on strike. It’s a wrinkle in Reddit’s plan to go public, and a sign that plan is premature, columnist Anita Ramaswamy writes.
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Huh.. I would have thought they'd use the API when available but I honestly know nothing about it. Wouldn't gathering data via API provide more structured data thereby making it easier to feed into their models?
Often its easier to just scrape everything rather than making a whole code to pull api requests and put them into a database and sort them while doing so. These companies scrape the entire internet, they don't have time or necessarie to use api, they don't need permanent access to a two way communication, they just need the data.
Good point.