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Front Page Subreddits Go Private in Response to Firing of Reddit Admin

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Re: Front Page Subreddits Go Private in Response to Firing of Reddit Admin

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Post by stefantalpalaru »

minimaxir wrote: post #3

More Context into the events that possibly led to the layoff: https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/3bxduw/why_wa... Alexis Ohanian's response: https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/3bw39q/why_ha... List of subreddits suddenly going private: http://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/3bxjyu/list_...

> Due to an unexpected Reddit administrative personnel change /r/science is temporarily private so that we can resolve the situation, our apologizes for any disruption this may cause.

The doublespeak is weird. If it's a protest, say so. There's no direct relation between the employee getting fired and a subreddit that is not focused on celebrity PR going dark.

Re: Front Page Subreddits Go Private in Response to Firing of Reddit Admin

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Post by koko775 »

chernevik wrote: post #8

Jesse Jackson had an AMA that did not go very well. Several of the most upvoted questions were simply disrespectful. The Reverend's answers were mostly boilerplate and often unresponsive to the question. The AMA seems to have been part of some PR rollout -- Mother Jones had an article three days ago about Jackson taking on Silicon Valley. The event seems to have failed the rollout's objectives. Not a great moment for…

I'm pretty certain AMA disasters do not qualify as fireable. And firing the facilitator with a history of good AMAs for that reason is hardly an appropriate remedy even if that is so.

Re: Front Page Subreddits Go Private in Response to Firing of Reddit Admin

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Post by voltagex_ »

jpeg_hero wrote: post #6

mega white knighting if I've ever seen it.

Why? The mods of several subreddits hosting AMAs have been left high and dry, and there were posts from PR agents saying that they'd flown clients around and made arrangements only to have them disappear.

I'd say that this is the beginning of the end of reddit but I just don't know what will replace it.

Re: Front Page Subreddits Go Private in Response to Firing of Reddit Admin

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Post by ForEnglandJames »

chernevik wrote: post #8

Jesse Jackson had an AMA that did not go very well. Several of the most upvoted questions were simply disrespectful. The Reverend's answers were mostly boilerplate and often unresponsive to the question. The AMA seems to have been part of some PR rollout -- Mother Jones had an article three days ago about Jackson taking on Silicon Valley. The event seems to have failed the rollout's objectives. Not a great moment for…

Really? A social justice warrior wanting to take on Silicon Valley and getting a leg up from Chairman Pao?

How delicious. Why is no one covering this?

Re: Front Page Subreddits Go Private in Response to Firing of Reddit Admin

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Post by mhomde »

What a circus reddit has become. There's probably/hopefully more to this story but still. It will be interesting to see if reddit forces the hands of the biggest subreddits to open again.

Which raises an interesting question, who "owns" a subreddit, the mods? the subscribers? reddit? I also wonder if it's a good idea for a community like reddit to have "public facing" administrators

Many of the biggest subreddits are revolting against the "governing" and gone private in protest, for example:

/r/Iama

/r/science

/r/movies

/r/gaming

/r/history

/r/art

/r/AskReddit

/r/law

Re: Front Page Subreddits Go Private in Response to Firing of Reddit Admin

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Post by mhomde »

dageshi wrote: post #15
mhomde wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

why? I don't think i said anything untowards...

No, seems a one off, your past comments are fine, so is this one, I think you may have tripped a spam filter.

weird, maybe too many subreddit links looks like spam :)

Re: Front Page Subreddits Go Private in Response to Firing of Reddit Admin

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Post by fixxer »

grecy wrote: post #10

I wonder if Reddit is big enough to survive these kinds of recent outcries [1], or if it's destined to go the way of digg, etc. [1] Only a week or so ago there was a huge outcry about censorship, which resulted in a lot of negative personal information being posted about the current Reddit CEO. Now we have this.

I still read it (programming subs mostly), but I logged out after the censorship fiasco. Reddit has strayed pretty bloody far off course.

Re: Front Page Subreddits Go Private in Response to Firing of Reddit Admin

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Post by contravariant »

koko775 wrote: post #13
chernevik wrote: post #8

Jesse Jackson had an AMA that did not go very well. Several of the most upvoted questions were simply disrespectful. The Reverend's answers were mostly boilerplate and often unresponsive to the question. The AMA seems to have been part of some PR rollout -- Mother Jones had an article three days ago about Jackson taking on Silicon Valley. The event seems to have failed the rollout's objectives. Not a great moment for…

I'm pretty certain AMA disasters do not qualify as fireable. And firing the facilitator with a history of good AMAs for that reason is hardly an appropriate remedy even if that is so.

It all seems like a pretty bad case of shooting the messenger.
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