I can't believe that she still hasn't gotten on Reddit and done an admin post to apologize. It would probably get down voted into oblivion but it might help.
The theory I've seen floating around reddit is that she's been brought in by investors to prepare reddit for acquisition, probably because investors have completely lost faith in the admins ability to monetise the site, now they're just trying to recoup what money they invested in reddit.
If that's true it would explain why Pao doesn't seem to care or even understand reddit, because she's not a long term appointment. She's just there to make reddit appealing to buyers.
to be honest, doing that would be like putting a bandaid on a broken windshield. The best thing Pao could do right now is to listen to users, and actually execute actions users call for. I've never seen a CEO so out of touch with her userbase. Also, I don't know why someone would hire a community manager (because that's effectively Pao's duty) that hates the community.
The fact that we're several days out and there hasn't been any r/announcement or r/blog post or ANYTHING public from ANY admin being like "yyyeah so that happened, let's talk about it" baffles me. Obviously it seems that there won't be one now, but the lack of transparency is such a turn-off.
This baffles me. She's the CEO of a popular message board that is insanely community-driven. Why would you choose to talk to the media and not your community?
I can't believe that she still hasn't gotten on Reddit and done an admin post to apologize. It would probably get down voted into oblivion but it might help.
The theory I've seen floating around reddit is that she's been brought in by investors to prepare reddit for acquisition, probably because investors have completely lost faith in the admins ability to monetise the site, now they're just trying to recoup what money they invested in reddit.
If that's true it would explain why Pao doesn't seem to care or even understand reddit, because she's not a long term appointment. She's just there to make reddit appealing to buyers.
Hopefully someone is in the market for a nice sinking ship.
to be honest, doing that would be like putting a bandaid on a broken windshield. The best thing Pao could do right now is to listen to users, and actually execute actions users call for. I've never seen a CEO so out of touch with her userbase. Also, I don't know why someone would hire a community manager (because that's effectively Pao's duty) that hates the community.
The fact that we're several days out and there hasn't been any r/announcement or r/blog post or ANYTHING public from ANY admin being like "yyyeah so that happened, let's talk about it" baffles me. Obviously it seems that there won't be one now, but the lack of transparency is such a turn-off.
This baffles me. She's the CEO of a popular message board that is insanely community-driven. Why would you choose to talk to the media and not your community?