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Marc Bodnick commented on why Victoria was fired: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CI9iYW7VAAAzzJN.png I consider him to be a reputable source and the claims are very plausible. Out of touch management never know how out of touch they are.
Also, terrible management? "You disagree with me? You're fired."
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Plenty of AMAs go really well, so you definitely need to look for a cause other than the fact that reddit has anonymous accounts and community voting.
People seem to hate Jesse Jackson on HN too. https://hn.algolia.com/?query=jesse%20jackson&sort=byPopular...
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A terrible business that I think could be sold in a heartbeat for a few hundred million dollars to the big players, so is it really that bad?
The community would be in an uproar if such a sale happened. Reddit's only monetization schemes right now are 1) reddit gold 2) ads and 3) the gift shop. These are things that the community can completely boycott. Any sane person would know not to buy out something like reddit.
I would start with rewarding administrators with payment (akin to youtube, somewhat proportionally to views -- this creates a strong incentive towards fidelity), revamp post priority algorithms, and add some basic functionality that you need to install an add on (!), RES, to get (what other top 100 website needs this?).
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Given the content of those replies, banning was entirely warranted.
So some people call you names and that's too much to handle as a CEO that they need to be banned?
Given her recent gender discrimination case against Kleiner Perkins and potential appeal, it would have made strategic sense to block anything sexist. I don't know if that's what was in the content of the replies - just guessing.
Also guessing it was pretty racist, and I can only imagine that shit got old more than a century ago.
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> Part of it is proof, of course: we know it's legitimate when she's sitting right there next to the person and can make them provide proof. We've had situations where agents or others have tried to do an AMA as their client, and Victoria shut that [...] down immediately. Righteous firing or not, a lot of this is a lesson in avoiding a SPOF.
From a systems dynamics point-of-view, single points of failure are problematic. However, in human dynamics and the foundation of all leadership (and thus creating genuine followership), it requires a single point of accountability. Leaders of any community are accountable to their followers. Leaders have to realize that the community and the purpose are always more important than them. I think the reason why u/choot…
Doing that is usually a good way to make somebody seem rather illiterate. For example, people are much looser with the way they structure sentences and organize thoughts when speaking in an unprepared manner.
When you listen to audio of them talking, everything seems normal because we have different expectations for written English and spoken English. When you don't get to listen to the audio but only read a transcript, then you start to get problems because then you have written English that only meets a spoken English standard.
I will miss it. As an Old Person™, reddit was the closest the modern Internet has come to replicating the heyday of Usenet in the 80s/90s. But because it's controlled by a single corporation instead of federating among all internet service providers, it succumbed to the corruption of the pursuit of captial. RIP.
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Pao ruined reddit unfortunately. Time for an alternative.
It's too bad Voat (reddit alternative) is having so many technical problems, because this would have been the perfect opportunity to shill it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voat
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Voat runs a modified version of the reddit open source code.
Wait, I thought it ran on a completely different codebase? It's hung from an ASP.NET framework running on an IIS server. https://github.com/voat/voat