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Reddit's Ellen Pao and Alexis Ohanian Explain Site Shut Down
What led the the site-wide protests that rippled through much of the popular message board
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Whether you agree with the admins or the mods or neither of them, the simple fact is, this is a major embarrassment for reddit management. It especially looks bad for potential and current investors, who must now realize that their investment is in the hands of a group of individuals who are not on the payroll and thus not liable in any way for reddit's success or failure. Add to it that reddit management is being very clear they mismanaged a high-visibility termination, and it makes the entire company from the CEO down look like amateurs.
It was also recently stated by a former admin that instead of bringing in technology people and people that were in touch with the product, they brought in a bunch of middle management and monetizing agents. Honestly, I knew it was all downhill when the FPH subreddit was banned. I didn't particularly care for it, but it's about censorship. Until then, reddit had stood against it.
Does anyone really know why all the subs suddenly came back up? If no one knows then that seems highly suspicious of the admins. They always took a strong stance against messing with moderators and sub drama, but with everything that's been going on who knows how far they will take it.
I had read that they said management had told them that some wanted changes for mor Creators will be worked on (lip service and no real action) and most moderators made a good faith move to put them back. It's basically analogous, I feel, to Americas stance on the labor movement. Many of the subs I subscribed to said, this doesn't effect us, we won't join in. And others said, for the greater good we feel we need to keep working so our patrons can keep being served without interruption-lest they leave and never come back.
That attitude that even a small inconvenience is too much for us to do for a greater good. That's a bad attitude.
Wow... Let me rephrase that. "The surface of the site looks good, so that's fine because if someone who can make money for me comes it will seem like nothing is wrong".
Meh, this is whats wrong in general. Basically its like every where else. Your opinion doesn't matter because we know whats good for our corporation. The alternative? You find a alternative.
The best part is, she's on Time saying we apologize to the users and how they failed at communicating, yet there isn't an announcement or blog post to be seen on all of Reddit... on top of that she's bragging about how 48 of the 50 subs are now back up and running, showing that by not staying shutdown they have not taught her a single lesson.
I am more upset about losing the Redditgifts mod, Kickme444, as I was very active in that community. I will miss Secret Santa and Arbitrary Day very much.
This lady just seems like a fucking pain everywhere she goes.
I just don't know how she even got the job. Like, what did she do?
From what I understand she was previously acquainted with the former CEO. I would not be surprised if money or favours of a different kind were involved. If you know what I mean.
Like a blow job?
It doesn't even matter anymore. I want to read interesting things and see comments by interesting people. I want to enjoy my time, not just read about drama and see angry people yell at each other