Ellen Pao owes Kleiner Perkins $276,000 for lawsuit costs: judge • Hacker News Board

Re: Ellen Pao owes Kleiner Perkins $276,000 for lawsuit costs: judge

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Post by javert » Thu, Jun 18, 2015, 1:47 AM UTC

whyenot wrote: post #10

tomlongson wrote: post #4

Related, over 10k people has petitioned for her to step down from her position at reddit: https://www.change.org/p/ellen-k-pao-step-down-as-ceo-of-red...

How is that related to her lawsuit? It seems completely unrelated to me. In any case, 10k "people" (it's easy to game these things) is just a drop in the bucket of reddit's userbase.

Most of us aren't in the position to get sued for gender discrimination.

So this whole Ellen Pao thing is just a bunch of nerds eating popcorn. It's our version of a celebrity magazine.

So in that sense, more gossip about Ellen Pao's personal life/actions at reddit (which she is ruining) are completely par for the course.

Re: Ellen Pao owes Kleiner Perkins $276,000 for lawsuit costs: judge

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Post by PythonicAlpha » Thu, Jun 18, 2015, 1:47 AM UTC

albertop wrote: post #18

PythonicAlpha wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What do you want to say? Should everybody just pick the money and run? Without knowing the details of the case and the reasoning of the people, it also could be possible that this woman was not looking for the money, but righteousness. And no, I am not convinced (without knowing any details), that because the judgement was against her, that this is justness. (I have seen so many unjust judgments in my own country tha…

righteousness == $2.7M ?

That is just the opposite of what I tried to say. I am not a native speaker, so I might have been misunderstood ...??

Some things just go beyond figures ...

Re: Ellen Pao owes Kleiner Perkins $276,000 for lawsuit costs: judge

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Post by macspoofing » Thu, Jun 18, 2015, 1:47 AM UTC

jrockway wrote: post #3

Reddit is a "microblogging company"?

It's as good as any description.

Re: Ellen Pao owes Kleiner Perkins $276,000 for lawsuit costs: judge

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Post by vernie » Thu, Jun 18, 2015, 1:48 AM UTC

gavanwoolery wrote: post #11

tomlongson wrote: post #4

Related, over 10k people has petitioned for her to step down from her position at reddit: https://www.change.org/p/ellen-k-pao-step-down-as-ceo-of-red...

(downvote at will, rephrased to make it a bit more polite) As far as I could tell, people were relatively content with Reddit even when it had bad stuff, but people started getting noisy when the censorship started. Comes down to a debate on censorship, which is admittedly quite divided. I don't condone hate speech, but its also sometimes tricky to separate hatred from a rational opinion about something. Ultimately y…

You were already being down-voted when you added that bit. Reddit doesn't exactly have the best record of self-policing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversial_Reddit_communiti...

Re: Ellen Pao owes Kleiner Perkins $276,000 for lawsuit costs: judge

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Post by macspoofing » Thu, Jun 18, 2015, 1:49 AM UTC

tomlongson wrote: post #4

Related, over 10k people has petitioned for her to step down from her position at reddit: https://www.change.org/p/ellen-k-pao-step-down-as-ceo-of-red...

Are online petitions still a thing?

Re: Ellen Pao owes Kleiner Perkins $276,000 for lawsuit costs: judge

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Post by comex » Thu, Jun 18, 2015, 1:49 AM UTC

raldi wrote: post #16

jrockway wrote: post #3

Reddit is a "microblogging company"?

Great reporting by the bicycle-repair shop known as Reuters.

I thought they were an Australian-themed maker of networking equipment that forwards data between different networks.

Re: Ellen Pao owes Kleiner Perkins $276,000 for lawsuit costs: judge

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Post by krschultz » Thu, Jun 18, 2015, 1:50 AM UTC

ekianjo wrote: post #20

whyenot wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How is that related to her lawsuit? It seems completely unrelated to me. In any case, 10k "people" (it's easy to game these things) is just a drop in the bucket of reddit's userbase.

Because someone suing for false claims is now at the head of Reddit, and she has the power to censor things she does not like (and actively uses it). I'd day it's related.

Not proving her case and making false claims are two different things.

Re: Ellen Pao owes Kleiner Perkins $276,000 for lawsuit costs: judge

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Post by nimos » Thu, Jun 18, 2015, 1:50 AM UTC

tomlongson wrote: post #5

dylanjermiah wrote: post #2

"Pao, who has said she would appeal, has offered to drop her case for $2.7 million, Kleiner Perkins said in a court filing earlier this month."

Kleiner Perkins offered her $1M not to appeal.

They offered her $1M not to go to trial. I believe they offered to not go after her for legal fees if she agreed to not appeal.

Re: Ellen Pao owes Kleiner Perkins $276,000 for lawsuit costs: judge

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Post by WalterGR » Thu, Jun 18, 2015, 1:50 AM UTC

arenaninja wrote: post #13

tomlongson wrote: post #4

Related, over 10k people has petitioned for her to step down from her position at reddit: https://www.change.org/p/ellen-k-pao-step-down-as-ceo-of-red...

While I wouldn't sign the petition and I don't care about her lawsuit or the recent subreddits that were banned, I'm turned off from reddit by their reaction to the fallout, particularly their fudging of the front page and /r/all and blocking comments mentioning an imgur alternative. I'm back to reading funnies from fark.com and now looking at voat.co. It's been a long time coming, longer than Pao has been CEO, and I…

Sources? That all sounds interesting.

Re: Ellen Pao owes Kleiner Perkins $276,000 for lawsuit costs: judge

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Post by Andrenid » Thu, Jun 18, 2015, 1:51 AM UTC

raldi wrote: post #16

jrockway wrote: post #3

Reddit is a "microblogging company"?

Great reporting by the bicycle-repair shop known as Reuters.

Not to mention there's a typo:

> because she is woman.

If you're going to credit an editor at the bottom, they should probably learn to edit something so simple that Word would've picked it up automatically.