[mr_ndrsn]

Transcript of call: https://gist.github.com/christianselig/fda7e8bc5a25aec9824f9...

> Me: No, no, I'm sorry. Yeah one more time. I was just saying if the opportunity cost of Apollo is currently $20 million a year. And that's a yearly, apparently ongoing cost to you folks. If you want to rip that band-aid off once. And have Apollo quiet down, you know, six months. Beautiful deal. Again this is mostly a joke, I'm just saying if the opportunity cost is that high, and if that is something that could make it easier on you guys, that could happen too. As is, it's quite difficult.

> Reddit: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I hear you. I think it's… I don't know what you mean by quiet down. I find that to be-

> Me: No, no, sorry. I didn't mean that to-

> Reddit: I'm going to very straightforward to you too, it sounds like a threat. And I'm just like "Oh interesting". Because one of the things we're trying to do is say "You have been using our API free of cost for many, many years and we have absolutely sanctioned - you have not broken any rules." And now we're changing our perspective for what we're telling you - and I know you disagree with it. That hey, we want to operate on a thing that is financially, you know, footing. And so hopefully you mean something completely different from what I said when you say like "go quietly", I just want to make sure.

> Me: How did you take that, sorry? Could you elaborate?

> Reddit: Oh, like, because you were like, "Hey, if you want this to go away".

> Me: I said "If you want Apollo to go quiet". Like in terms of- I would say it's quite loud in terms of its API usage.

> Reddit: Oh, go quiet as in that. Okay, got it. Got it. Sorry.

> Me: Like it's a very-

> Reddit: Yeah, that's a complete misinterpretation on my end.

> Me: Yeah. No, no, it's all good.

> Reddit: I apologize. I apologize immediately.

> Me: No, no, no, it's all good.

> Reddit: Because what we're hearing in some conversations is folks are, you know, like in other- making threats, and we're like "Hey, that's not a conversation that we want to have". So I immediately apologize.

> Me: Oh, no, no, it's all good. I'm sorry if it sounded like that.

Link to audio: http://christianselig.com/apollo-end/reddit-third-call-may-3...

[IgorPartola]

I am more confused after reading that than I was before. Why is Reddit apologizing? What does “go quiet” mean here and why aren’t they speaking more plainly?