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How Reddit took on its own users – and won
- CM30 11y agoWhat a ridiculously biased article, and a great example of the narrative that the media is trying to push on people. Was shutting down all those subreddits a bad thing? Well not always, but the fact of the minute is simple; the new team (including Pao) were bad choices for a site that was founded on freedom of speech first and everything else last. That's it. If you have a forum where the culture leans towards a lack of censorship and an everything goes attitude and you try and forcefully change that, of course you're going to end up with a huge firestorm of controversy. Many of the changes here were just terrible community management by people who didn't understand the original site and had no interest in doing so.
- MikeNomad 11y ago"Took on its users and won." The writer needs to understand the difference between winning battles, and winning a war. The reddit Higher Ups went after the easy stuff. Let's see them do a full clean out of NSFW. And no, I am not suggesting that all subreddits tagged as NSFW need to go away.
- nitwit005 11y agoWon? What is winning defined as here? They implemented the policies, but you don't normally define "success" as users getting extremely mad and your CEO quitting.