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Reddit In Chaos After Supposedly Firing AMA Coordinator Victoria Taylor
If you tried to visit r/IAmA, one of Reddit’s biggest subs, recently, you were probably greeted by the image you see above. And if you’ve been absolutely anywhere else on the site at all in the past few hours, you probably noticed that everyone is flipping their collective shit over speculation that Victoria Taylor, the high-profile coordinator that kept IAmA afloat, was suddenly and mysteriously fired. Also, something about Jesse Jackson.
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Honestly, this is the last straw for me. It's just going off in a different direction than I'm comfortable with.
You said it.
Ellen Pao has taken reddit in a direction that I am not comfortable or okay with. First, there was the inconsistent banning of hateful subreddits. I understand that they were banned for harassing people, but there were a lot of other subreddits that were doing the same thing. R/shitredditsays comes to mind. Secondly, there was the firing of Victoria. She did all the AMAs, and she was fired without a forewarning. This also got in the way of several AMAs on the other subreddits that did AMAs. It's just moving in a direction I don't feel like is good.
Seeming as though now a large portion of the default subs have gone dark it's becoming a pretty bad place. There's just so much "Anti-Pao" stuff, and "Bring her back!" posts it's become something terrible at the moment.
A large portion of the Reddit user base is now slowly becoming fueled by hatred. Even now the few subs that still interesting content to me are small niche subs, such as /r/woodworking, and /r/diy.
It's the auto-filter that did it for me. All posts on various subreddits that mention Victoria or FPH are being deleted automatically.
Honestly, Reddit felt like a Dictator ship of circlejerking in the past while. I have been visiting that site for over four years and abruptly and strictly stopped as of yesterday. I am just sick of it and wish to leave that place. I am much happier here, I love this community. Snapzu is amazing :D
What you think reddit was? It's nothing but dick fest now
Sad times. For me, AMAs were the best feature of reddit. They managed to get a wide range of exciting people to join, the questions were really interesting.. Basically, it was a joy to read. I am scared that it will never be the same and that AMAs as we know it are gone.
Not been a good past couple of months for Reddit, everything just keeps piling up and coming to a head. But it wouldn't be the first giant to collapse and it won't be the last.
It's had its day and is suffering from poor management.