Reddit slides into madness after Jesse Jackson AMA

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Re: Reddit slides into madness after Jesse Jackson AMA

Postby AdricDePsycho » Mon Jul 06, 2015 5:11 am

So...I use reddit, but mainly to chat on the many subreddits about my favorite cartoons. They're mostly nice people.
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Re: Reddit slides into madness after Jesse Jackson AMA

Postby FaceTheCitizen » Mon Jul 06, 2015 7:29 pm

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Re: Reddit slides into madness after Jesse Jackson AMA

Postby LiteralHipster » Mon Jul 06, 2015 10:42 pm

I love reddit. I have this huge collection of subreddits grouped by subject, that I read time to time. I just ignore the defaults and never venture into those cesspools of hatred and ignorance such as the banned ones or the ones they should definitely ban next. :)

As always, a social network is only as good as the people who are in it. The difference with reddit is that it makes filtering infinitely easier than others.
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Re: Reddit slides into madness after Jesse Jackson AMA

Postby Windy » Tue Jul 07, 2015 9:10 am

The petition is now at about 200k signatures.

https://www.change.org/p/ellen-k-pao-st ... reddit-inc
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Re: Reddit slides into madness after Jesse Jackson AMA

Postby Tesseracts » Thu Jul 09, 2015 9:15 pm

Update on the Reddit situation. It doesn't seem like she's going to reveal what actually happened any time soon.

"Chairman Pao" also apologized for lack of communication. That's just what an evil dictator would want you think think though, right? She wants you to think she's sorry.
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Re: Reddit slides into madness after Jesse Jackson AMA

Postby Windy » Fri Jul 10, 2015 10:32 pm

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Re: Reddit slides into madness after Jesse Jackson AMA

Postby Tesseracts » Fri Jul 10, 2015 11:03 pm



So why am I leaving? Ultimately, the board asked me to demonstrate higher user growth in the next six months than I believe I can deliver while maintaining reddit’s core principles.

This bothers me. Reddit is a very popular website, why should they tear themselves apart trying to be even more popular? Why does the CEO need to leave? She might not even have anything to do with this.
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Re: Reddit slides into madness after Jesse Jackson AMA

Postby Andropov4 » Fri Jul 10, 2015 11:28 pm

She has to leave because ultimately, somebody has to take the heat, and it's usually gonna be the person at the top.
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Re: Reddit slides into madness after Jesse Jackson AMA

Postby Windy » Sat Jul 11, 2015 9:38 am

Tesseracts wrote:


So why am I leaving? Ultimately, the board asked me to demonstrate higher user growth in the next six months than I believe I can deliver while maintaining reddit’s core principles.

This bothers me. Reddit is a very popular website, why should they tear themselves apart trying to be even more popular? Why does the CEO need to leave? She might not even have anything to do with this.


She gets most of the blame because of several statements she's made publicly about changing reddit and her shady past.

Though I agree, she's mostly just taking the heat. Whatever gripes the users had with reddit weren't caused by one person, and they aren't going to go away just because one person resigns.
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Re: Reddit slides into madness after Jesse Jackson AMA

Postby Aquila89 » Sat Jul 11, 2015 4:43 pm

Andropov4 wrote:She has to leave because ultimately, somebody has to take the heat, and it's usually gonna be the person at the top.


She's a woman who sued her employers for sexism and lost. It's almost like as if she was purposely designed to be a person redditors can hate and blame for everything.
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Re: Reddit slides into madness after Jesse Jackson AMA

Postby Windy » Sat Jul 11, 2015 5:09 pm

Aquila89 wrote:
Andropov4 wrote:She has to leave because ultimately, somebody has to take the heat, and it's usually gonna be the person at the top.


She's a woman who sued her employers for sexism and lost. It's almost like as if she was purposely designed to be a person redditors can hate and blame for everything.


Yes, this entire reddit revolt is clearly just a bunch of backwards cis white men in their basements looking to lash out at a brave strong and independent woman. Shame on reddit for caving into misogyny and hatred.
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Re: Reddit slides into madness after Jesse Jackson AMA

Postby Aquila89 » Sat Jul 11, 2015 6:01 pm

I said nothing of the sort and you know it. You yourself agreed that Pao is a scapegoat: and it's almost like as if she was designed to be a scapegoat for reddit.

But you do sound like the people that made me unsubscribe from almost all default subreddits.
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Re: Reddit slides into madness after Jesse Jackson AMA

Postby Windy » Sun Jul 12, 2015 2:29 am

Aquila89 wrote:I said nothing of the sort and you know it. You yourself agreed that Pao is a scapegoat: and it's almost like as if she was designed to be a scapegoat for reddit.

But you do sound like the people that made me unsubscribe from almost all default subreddits.


Fair enough, I apologize for that outburst.

But keep in mind that the reddit revolt was triggered by the firing of a woman.

https://archive.is/IU0fP - Gawker
https://archive.is/2dM1g - Fusion
https://archive.is/0a6FB - New York Times
https://archive.is/XyAhe - The Atlantic
https://archive.is/2w4ud - Recode
https://archive.is/d8g0S - Mashable
https://archive.is/Lwf53 - Verge
https://archive.is/4AU6I - Guardian
https://archive.is/7mJlI - Daily Beast
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Re: Reddit slides into madness after Jesse Jackson AMA

Postby Aquila89 » Sun Jul 12, 2015 9:25 am

So what? That means misogyny is not a problem of reddit? That's like saying "I'm not a racist, some of my best friends are black!"
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Re: Reddit slides into madness after Jesse Jackson AMA

Postby Windy » Sun Jul 12, 2015 12:37 pm

Aquila89 wrote:So what? That means misogyny is not a problem of reddit? That's like saying "I'm not a racist, some of my best friends are black!"


You should be more worried about people who say "I can't be racist, I'm fighting for social justice!"

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