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WanderingEng  ·  3422 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Reddit's CEO resigns

    I think Pao was a scapegoat

I don't agree. The complaints users have seem to be not what was changed while she was CEO but rather how it was done. Her failure wasn't making unpopular changes, it was failing to make unpopular changes palatable.

The dismissal of chooter/Victoria is a great example. The IAMA moderators shut down the sub not because they were protesting but because they didn't understand how to proceed. That was a massive failure by the reddit employees. They should have been ready immediately after Victoria was dismissed with a message to the moderators Victoria directly worked with to help them understand the change and give them an open line of communication. The failures of reddit under Ellen Pao weren't unpopular changes, they were failed communication of unexpected but generally benign changes.





lifestyled  ·  3421 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    The failures of reddit under Ellen Pao weren't unpopular changes, they were failed communication of unexpected but generally benign changes.

Yet she took the heat for things that she wasn't responsible for. The firing of Victoria has been known since day one to be Alexis' doing, by his own words. Yet I can't recall a single piece of repurposed propaganda featuring his face rising to the front page.

WanderingEng  ·  3421 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I argue she was responsible for the poor interaction and communication with users and moderators. The criticism stems from how reddit, Inc interacted with users and moderators and not what Alexis or other did. For that I think the CEO of a small organization deserves much of the blame.

To steal from a reddit philosophy coined under her, the criticism was behavior, not ideas. She may not have been responsible for the ideas, but she was responsible for the behavior.

lifestyled  ·  3421 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    I argue she was responsible for the poor interaction and communication with users and moderators.

She's responsible for an issue that's been around for years, long before she was a CEO and even before she ever joined reddit?

    The criticism stems from how reddit, Inc interacted with users and moderators and not what Alexis or other did. For that I think the CEO of a small organization deserves much of the blame.

In other words, Alexis isn't responsible for anything he chose to do because, even though he's one of the co-founders and ultimately has far more power and say-so than Pao ever did?

    To steal from a reddit philosophy coined under her, the criticism was behavior, not ideas. She may not have been responsible for the ideas, but she was responsible for the behavior.

Sounds to me like you're just stretching as far as you can to make sure she gets blamed for everything because of some vendetta you have against her.

And here I thought Hubski prided itself for being above the common redditisms. Maybe it's just a new skin on the same old hate.

WanderingEng  ·  3421 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Sounds to me like you're stretching to make it appear I have a vendetta against her when I do not. I, too, am disappointed by this interaction and had hoped for more.