I encourage people avoid lumping this in with all the recent Pao hate and Reddit censorship controversy and defer judgement and anger until Reddit has had time to put out a statement -- which they will almost certainly do, considering the backlash. People come and go from companies for myriad reasons. Maybe they made a rash decision because of the disastrous Jesse Jackson AMA, but it's also possible this has been a longtime coming.
Regardless of if the firing was justified, the reason so many people are upset is not only because Victoria was fired, but rather because there's no transition in place to help with AMA's. She was so integral, and now there are many mods, and people who are supposed to do AMA's in the coming week that are just left hanging.
i wouldn't be so sure on the admins issuing a statement. they've dropped the ball on things like this in the past, as well.
one of the admins commented on the issue and said that they have a team in place currently to help out with AMAs, and apparently that "many of the people who come on to do AMAs are excited to do them without assistance".
i'm not really sure what the admins' plan is. they seem to be willfully ignoring basically all the issues brought up to them in the past few months.
I encourage people avoid lumping this in with all the recent Pao hate and Reddit censorship controversy and defer judgement and anger until Reddit has had time to put out a statement -- which they will almost certainly do, considering the backlash. People come and go from companies for myriad reasons. Maybe they made a rash decision because of the disastrous Jesse Jackson AMA, but it's also possible this has been a longtime coming.
Regardless of if the firing was justified, the reason so many people are upset is not only because Victoria was fired, but rather because there's no transition in place to help with AMA's. She was so integral, and now there are many mods, and people who are supposed to do AMA's in the coming week that are just left hanging.
Pao is steering the ship. It's her fault, directly or indirectly.
i wouldn't be so sure on the admins issuing a statement. they've dropped the ball on things like this in the past, as well.
one of the admins commented on the issue and said that they have a team in place currently to help out with AMAs, and apparently that "many of the people who come on to do AMAs are excited to do them without assistance".
i'm not really sure what the admins' plan is. they seem to be willfully ignoring basically all the issues brought up to them in the past few months.