Honestly, if anything I would blame the community itself for reddit's downfall. People have been really really toxic on that website, especially in regards to witch-hunting. They hated Ellen Pao despite not making any major impact one way or the other. She didn't have Victoria fired, that was kn0thing who did that, and they don't have to disclose why. The only truly major thing she did was ban FPH. And it kind of helped the community as a whole. If you look at whenever that sub or one of it's defenders comes out, they are now downvoted instead of upvoted.
To be frank, it seems like reddit really took it out on her to the extent they did in part because she was a woman bossy enough to be a CEO.
Honestly, if anything I would blame the community itself for reddit's downfall. People have been really really toxic on that website, especially in regards to witch-hunting. They hated Ellen Pao despite not making any major impact one way or the other. She didn't have Victoria fired, that was kn0thing who did that, and they don't have to disclose why. The only truly major thing she did was ban FPH. And it kind of helped the community as a whole. If you look at whenever that sub or one of it's defenders comes out, they are now downvoted instead of upvoted.
To be frank, it seems like reddit really took it out on her to the extent they did in part because she was a woman bossy enough to be a CEO.