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Float  ·  3191 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Reddit has done it again

    I hear this whole thing started because of disastrous AMA with Jesse Jackson.

That was a small event that lead into, but didn't necessarily cause, the firing of the admin, Victoria. Which was the straw the broke the camel's back for reddit users, because it effectively put /r/iAmA at a standstill in her absence. This cascaded and released a bunch of tension between mods->admins and users->admins. People are tired of admin negligence and shady practices.

Kind of a WW1 Franz Ferdinand type deal.