Reddit In Free Fall
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I’ll admit that I have a bone to pick with Reddit. Alan.com is banned from posting there because of a grudge some moderator has against one of our Liberaland regulars. Multiple attempts to find out just what the issue is in an effort to resolve it have resulted in no response from their admins. Once before I was banned because I posted too many articles from this site. And so what if I did? Give some people a little power and they will abuse it with a false sense of their own importance. But what happened to this site is emblematic of why Reddit is in free fall.
An online petition calling for the resignation of Ellen Pao, Reddit’s interim CEO, has attracted more than 130,000 signatures, growing rapidly in the past two days since the dismissal of a key administrator at the community-curated news site.
The Change.org petition describes a lack of confidence in Pao, who petition organizers accuse of ushering in “a new age of censorship” and worry that she will “run Reddit into the ground.” The petition, which was launched three weeks ago, grew from 16,000 signatures on Friday to more than 130,000 two days later after the alleged firing of Victoria Taylor, one of the social news site’s highest profile administrators…
In response to a request for comment on the petition, Reddit spokeswoman said that Pao “has the full support of the team.” In an interview with Time magazine published late Friday, Pao apologized for the circumstances surrounding Taylor’s departure.
“We handled the transition in a way that caused some disruption, and we should have done a better job,” she said.
Pao, who joined Reddit as its business and partnerships strategist in 2013, was named interim CEO of the site in November after the resignation of former CEO Yishan Wong.
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