To be honest I feel like the title is a bit sensationalist (and I know that is the title on the source page). To me, it implies that this was a deliberate action to make Pao look bad, which is not my impression after reading Yishan's comment. Reddit just reacted by throwing all of the blame onto Pao before knowing anything about the situation (even before anyone knew whether there was a valid reason for letting go of Victoria). I agree that Alexis should've come forward earlier, but even if he did very few people would've seen a comment downvoted into oblivion, and the Pao hate train was maximum velocity rather quickly so there was barely any window of opportunity to do so.
Edit: After thinking about it some more, there were other options, such as making a post on /r/blog or /r/announcements for transparency. I guess in general the entire situation was just handled atrociously anyways.
To be honest I feel like the title is a bit sensationalist (and I know that is the title on the source page). To me, it implies that this was a deliberate action to make Pao look bad, which is not my impression after reading Yishan's comment. Reddit just reacted by throwing all of the blame onto Pao before knowing anything about the situation (even before anyone knew whether there was a valid reason for letting go of Victoria). I agree that Alexis should've come forward earlier, but even if he did very few people would've seen a comment downvoted into oblivion, and the Pao hate train was maximum velocity rather quickly so there was barely any window of opportunity to do so.
Edit: After thinking about it some more, there were other options, such as making a post on /r/blog or /r/announcements for transparency. I guess in general the entire situation was just handled atrociously anyways.