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Ellen Pao Is Stepping Down as Reddit’s Chief

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Re: Ellen Pao Is Stepping Down as Reddit’s Chief

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agildehaus wrote: post #618
KVFinn wrote: post #511

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>As an occasional user of reddit, this whole ordeal has confirmed the reason why I prefer not to hang out in its forums. It's really been awful and hard to avoid. I saw more racism on reddit in a couple few weeks (while the police shootings were in the news) than I've seen in the rest of my life combined. That and the increasingly popular /fatpeoplehate and I was pretty close to never visiting even the small well-mod…

I doubt your last sentence, as I regularly use Reddit and never saw anything like the story you mention. Certainly there were bad comments in more sanely named threads, but no highly upvoted threads with that title like you mention here. Mind linking it?

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Re: Ellen Pao Is Stepping Down as Reddit’s Chief

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jonlucc wrote: post #577
tmerr wrote: post #462

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I think users were pissed off because of the lack of transparency. No one knew what the admins were deleting. It was up to the community to find out which subreddits were banned and why. Further the admins never logically explained their decisions, for example, to ban fph over srs. From the outside it seemed like an arbitrary power trip. And for what? Reddit's moderation system is perfect: let users form their own co…

It seems to me that HN is more like a single subreddit than Reddit as a whole. The admin action on HN feels more like mod action on Reddit, because there is no larger umbrella above HN.

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Re: Ellen Pao Is Stepping Down as Reddit’s Chief

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Post by austenallred »

vehementi wrote: post #637
austenallred wrote: post #628

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If he still can't use the product six months from now and the users are revolting, then yes he should be fired

He made the product! He can't use the product ten years later !

He hasn't used the product in nine years. Wouldn't you say it's possible they've changed the formatting in those nine years?

Re: Ellen Pao Is Stepping Down as Reddit’s Chief

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Post by ryanmonroe »

agumonkey wrote: post #600
dmfdmf wrote: post #520

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At last, a voice of reason in hundreds of pointless comments. Free speech is a principle and people should be free to say whatever they want no matter how disgusting or distasteful to the majority or mainstream. This is the ideal of a free society and people who can't make the distinction between supporting the principle and yet rejecting the advocates of idiocy are implicitly advocating some form of government censo…

What about duty of thinking ? I'm often weirded by the freedom of speech argument in non critical contexts. These persons life aren't at risk because they can't express opinions, isn't that what is meant by FoS ? not just a free card to be able to let yourself loose in public. I have no solution, but far too often FoS ends up a noisy non-discussions. ps: I'll add that I was somehow afraid to express my views on Freed…

>These persons life aren't at risk because they can't express opinions, isn't that what is meant by FoS ?

No

Re: Ellen Pao Is Stepping Down as Reddit’s Chief

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Post by KVFinn »

agildehaus wrote: post #618
KVFinn wrote: post #511

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>As an occasional user of reddit, this whole ordeal has confirmed the reason why I prefer not to hang out in its forums. It's really been awful and hard to avoid. I saw more racism on reddit in a couple few weeks (while the police shootings were in the news) than I've seen in the rest of my life combined. That and the increasingly popular /fatpeoplehate and I was pretty close to never visiting even the small well-mod…

I doubt your last sentence, as I regularly use Reddit and never saw anything like the story you mention. Certainly there were bad comments in more sanely named threads, but no highly upvoted threads with that title like you mention here. Mind linking it?

http://web.archive.org/web/20150611050725/https://www.reddit...

http://web.archive.org/web/20150611112054/http://www.reddit....

Re: Ellen Pao Is Stepping Down as Reddit’s Chief

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Post by morbius »

Jimmy wrote: post #589
morbius wrote: post #569

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The SRS sidebar makes it pretty clear that the whole SJW façade is exactly that: a façade. They obviously have legitimate complaints but hyperbolise everything to poke fun at it.

They don't accept the "it's just a joke" excuse from their targets, why should we accept it from them?

Because there's no object to their jokes. It's just exaggerated humor not at the expense of anyone.

Re: Ellen Pao Is Stepping Down as Reddit’s Chief

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Post by monochromatic »

pkorzeniewski wrote: post #32

“Ellen has done a phenomenal job, especially in the last few months,” he said. What exactly "phenomenal" has she done? Reddit works pretty much the same as it worked several years ago, but in the meantime she managed to piss off the majority of community, which is the only reason Reddit exists

> piss off the majority of the community

I suspect she pissed off a very small, but very vocal minority. Most people (myself included) don't really know or care about Pao one way or the other.

Re: Ellen Pao Is Stepping Down as Reddit’s Chief

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Post by Doji »

reustle wrote: post #638
mcintyre1994 wrote: post #474

> “The attacks were worse on Ellen because she is a woman,” @sama, how do you explain this claim without ignoring the community's enormous support for Victoria Taylor?

Those two are not necessarily mutually exclusive.

This is nothing unusual. Ballmer and many other male CEO's have been treated abusively. People only notice it more because she's a woman.

Re: Ellen Pao Is Stepping Down as Reddit’s Chief

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Post by vehementi »

austenallred wrote: post #643
vehementi wrote: post #637

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He made the product! He can't use the product ten years later !

He hasn't used the product in nine years. Wouldn't you say it's possible they've changed the formatting in those nine years?

https://www.reddit.com/user/spez

Did you think I would be tricked by your lie?

Re: Ellen Pao Is Stepping Down as Reddit’s Chief

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Post by spacehome »

mcintyre1994 wrote: post #474

> “The attacks were worse on Ellen because she is a woman,” @sama, how do you explain this claim without ignoring the community's enormous support for Victoria Taylor?

Sam has to say this or else risk Ellen suing him too. I wouldn't read into anything he says more than that.
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