AMA is live

I hope your comment gets voted up.

Eh that aside, I hope he answers :)

Except...

I'm here with Victoria from reddit from 2 - 4 pm EST to answer your questions on literally anything

So does that mean "Victoria" is choosing which questions to send him?

Who the hell is Victoria?

I'm not sure, but he isn't responding to comment replies, only initial questions, so it seems likely that "Victoria" is choosing which comments to send to him.

Time to find out who this Victoria person is, better not be a reddit inc employee.

Pretty sure that /r/iama has people reach out to celebrities to handle them for the questioning because they often don't understand the thread style or how to reply to specific comments, also to make the verification and account creation processes go smoothly.

So yes, Victoria is almost certianly a reddit employee or /r/iama mod.

Yeah she was hired a while ago, and then she got exposed because people called out the AMAs for having such similar grammar, but yeah she is the official reddit AMA exec.

OK check this out and then read someone's response:

Every time Victoria assists someone with an AMA this line comes up. "Someone asked me _____ so I'm using a completely new response line to answer _____ which is not under the question.

Did anyone really ask you that question or did Victoria coach you into making that line up? This seems like a conspiracy that should be looked into since I am questioning authority. Who do you think should look into this possible conspiracy and finally get to the truth?

Victoria Taylor is /u/chooter - Reddit's Director of Communications.

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1xatv2/ama_request_victoria_taylor_from_reddit/

http://www.redditblog.com/2013/06/welcome-new-recruit-victoria-keeper-of.html

From karmanaut:

I'm afraid that we have no control over how Mr. Ventura sorts his comments or chooses what to answer. Victoria's involvement is generally limited to helping him navigate Reddit. As far as I know, she is not involved in picking questions or answering questions. It's entirely possible that he never saw the question, or that he saw the question and for some reason didn't want to answer it.

He answered!

He did indeed! It was a surprisingly terse response.

It is not brigadeing if I am a subscriber and want to know what you asked is it?

If you're finding the content you're voting on from the /r/iama hot queue as opposed to a link from somewhere else on reddit you should be okay.

Ok, just wanted to check.

I got a reply!

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1zjx9u/i_am_jesse_ventura_i_always_speak_my_mind_and/cfuaxc4

Would've been nice if he actually answered your question.

Keep an eye on BACON_ etc I refuse to link directly but it is obvious enough

There are quite a few more in the thread.

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They are now banned

I informed the AMA mods about the people who were just spamming and vote bigrading from r/opieandanthony.

I love the logic: "Hey, let's all act like inconsiderate jerks, that'll make him look bad!"

Lovely, I had too mant tabs open and accidently reported them to O&A Mods.

Me=Dumbarse

Couple of the usual, bored assholes but for the most part people seem to be ignoring them and getting downvoted.

Looks like I'll be reading this at a later date. doing more voting than reading right now

How can you vote on things without reading them?

Reading the obvious troll comments and downvoting them, haven't had a chance to read any of JV's answers

You said you weren't reading them. You were just looking at the usernames? That's called brigading.

I never said I was looking at just usernames and voting

I was going by how you said you would have to read it later, because you were too busy voting.

I had no time to read JV's answers, I've given up now. Off to bed soon

I am happy that he answered my question:

http://www.np.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1zjx9u/i_am_jesse_ventura_i_always_speak_my_mind_and/cfucn18?context=3

How much different things could have been if there was a different person for the same decisions is something that I wonder from time to time.

Lucky...I got mine in right away and it wasn't touched.

Sadly there are quite a few debunkers downvoting everything, one of them doesn't even understand how the illusion of perspective is inducing him in error and refuses to learn it correctly over and over again

http://www.np.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1zjx9u/i_am_jesse_ventura_i_always_speak_my_mind_and/cfudcyd?context=3

But, somehow, we are the morons.

Is it happening yet? Its been 2 hours and I did not see it in Iama

He be off the grid, give him a minute. Plus I'm pretty sure other people are setting up for him. He doesn't seem to be that into tech on his new show, I'm sure some intern is running the keyboards.

Likely.

This is true. Just wasn't sure if there was some post up before the AMA started or something. I do not venture over there to much.

Make sure to upvote the legit comments, especially right in the beginning. T minus 5 minutes.

Edit: sweet got my comment in 2 seconds after he posted, heh.

Edit 2: annnnd it's getting hit hard.

Edit 3: well it has more upvotes than many of the questions he's already answered. I do think that someone is picking and choosing which questions to send him.

Final edit: Despite having more upvotes than many of the questions he did answer, mine was untouched. I think someone at reddit was choosing which questions to send him.

I fully expect it to be brigaded by tards and trolls. You might want to get your questions in early.

Yeah. It says right I. The OP that he is with Victoria. Since he is off the grid, I'm assuming that she is on the phone with him reading and transcribing answers. Dumbfucks are trolling for nothing... Technically, I guess that they are always trolling for nothing.

Off the grid just refers to him living in a self sustained house, it's solar powered. He's not in hiding or anything.

He's not in hiding or anything.

I didn't say that he was.

Since he is off the grid, I'm assuming that she is on the phone with him reading and transcribing answers

No worries. That's the impression I got when you said that, that's all.

Oh. I meant that since he was working with Victoria, that he was probably on a phone in his office in Mexico, while she read the questions to him. He doesn't seem like the type to figure out how to reddit for one AMA.

Wait so an hour in and its over?

I thought it said 2-4...Is this normal?

He didn't answer my question :(

Makes sense I guess.

Yeah Opie and Anthony are radio personalities or at least used to be. Maybe they got a tv show or something.

Fuck, I wanted to know his prediction for Obama care.

I feel like most of the questions relevant to our mutual interests will be downvoted and he'll be forced to deal with dissonant skepticism.

Perhaps we can get in touch with him and get him into this sub to answer some questions.

Absolutely.

Or better yet /r/conspiracyv2

Keep it away from those who may derail it.

Who do you have to jerk off to get an invite there, I swear I've tried at least three times. There must be so many fun activities going on in there...

I could not tell you why...I got an invite with out asking.

And not to much different from the main sub. Less conversations actually and a lot of cross posting.

Yeah I figured, I kind of gave up on it. The trolls here are kind of fun sometimes anyway.

Yeah some of them are, and some people here make easy targets of themselves as well.

But with getting into that sub, just seems to be a matter of posting content here.

I posted a picture of a dollar someone wrote a bunch of conspiracies to google and it made it to the top spot here, next day I was invited to v2.

Ha, I think I remember that post.

Did you ask me?

No, but I will? It was months ago, I think the mods were different. Or maybe I didn't hang out here enough.

But those who derail could find it there with ease.

I would like an invite also.

I can not invite people as I am not a mod.

Is the question "why are you so jealous of Hogan"? Answer "Hogan is jealous of me"

But if we all go there together and up vote the good questions, we can have an influence

Holy shit the thread is teeming with trolls saying stupid shit and derailing the conversation. I mean, it's reddit so I'm used to it, but this is ridiculous.

Have you seen all the deleted comments in that thread? How often does that happen in /r/iAMA??

The ama mods are deleting the opie anthony fans spamming the thread. I'm watching very closely.

I messaged the mods about 30 minutes ago about it and referenced this thread:

http://www.reddit.com/r/opieandanthony/comments/1zjdg9/jesse_ventura_ama_today_we_should_at_least/

THey messaged me back saying they would delete any spam and non-constructive posts from them.

Reported to reddit admins, thank you.

Guys like Jesse are easy targets for people who don't do too much hard thinking. It should be expected, let's use our votes to help promote the good questions.

Look at all of the great questions this moderator of r/opieandanthony contributed to the AMA!

It's almost like they're...asking him anything.

Will you please run for president. We need a third party , and your our Best hope.