She was not the only leaving/being fired lately, reddit has lost lots of admins in relatively short time and the number of incidents between the community and the admins have increased. The admins are not the only ones responsible for this, as the community also has an increasing number of self-entitled assholes, but this was not an isolated incident. There are lots of red flags that things are not well and I wouldn't exclude the possibility of Kevin Rose's spirit having reproduced and the clones being haunting Reddit's HQ.
EDIT: At least Elen Pao seems aware that she and the rest of admins have done a large series of screw ups and maybe they fix their issues. This will still not fix the community any time soon because there is a rift between content producers and the admins that will be hard to heal, while in the larger community trolls thrive a reproduce like rabbits and neither the admins nor the mods seem able to fix this.
I'm not going to rail on Pao since I dont know too much of what goes on behind Reddits closed doors. I dont expect to hear from her or Victoria about what led to her dismissal (that would be bad on Reddits part, and Victoria likely signed a contract to get her severance package, meaning she cant say anything about Reddit).
One would hope they are able to open up and have a more frank discussion with their mods an community, but being the size they are and the fact that they answer to a board now, I just dont see that happening.
She was not the only leaving/being fired lately, reddit has lost lots of admins in relatively short time and the number of incidents between the community and the admins have increased. The admins are not the only ones responsible for this, as the community also has an increasing number of self-entitled assholes, but this was not an isolated incident. There are lots of red flags that things are not well and I wouldn't exclude the possibility of Kevin Rose's spirit having reproduced and the clones being haunting Reddit's HQ.
EDIT: At least Elen Pao seems aware that she and the rest of admins have done a large series of screw ups and maybe they fix their issues. This will still not fix the community any time soon because there is a rift between content producers and the admins that will be hard to heal, while in the larger community trolls thrive a reproduce like rabbits and neither the admins nor the mods seem able to fix this.
I'm not going to rail on Pao since I dont know too much of what goes on behind Reddits closed doors. I dont expect to hear from her or Victoria about what led to her dismissal (that would be bad on Reddits part, and Victoria likely signed a contract to get her severance package, meaning she cant say anything about Reddit).
One would hope they are able to open up and have a more frank discussion with their mods an community, but being the size they are and the fact that they answer to a board now, I just dont see that happening.