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Anecdotally, I can confirm that most mentions of her on Reddit that I've seen are very pejorative toward her.
by afarrell 10y ago
Anecdotally, I can confirm that most mentions of her on Reddit that I've seen are very pejorative toward her.
- fnord123 10y agoI thought that was because the closed the subreddits focused on harassment. e.g. r/FatPeopleHate. Talking shit about her law suit was just a wedge issue to get under her skin by people predisposed to abusing others.
- sangnoir 10y agoNot sure if your anecdote applies here: as Reddit CEO, she made a number of decisions that were unpopular with mods and users alike - entirely not related to her court action.
- vertex-four 10y agoAt which point people decided to use her court action as part of their "proof" that she's a "SJW" and therefore to be hated.
- cdr 10y agoAnd you are a case in point; spez (Steve Huffman, CEO) actually made those decisions and used Pao as a fall-woman.
- sangnoir 10y ago> And you are a case in point I wasn't aware that spez was co-CEO with ekjp... I thought he only became CEO afterwards. Even if the board/spez forced her to make all of the unpopular decisions (there were many), the buck still stopped with her as the CEO[1], fall-woman or not. Also, why did spez want Victoria gone? He made Ellen Pao fire her too, right? 1. https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/3cbo4m/we_apologize/ https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/3cbo4m/we_ap...
- deminature 10y agoActually kn0thing/co-founder Alexis Ohanian fired Victoria, but Ellen Pao ended up taking the blame for that too. https://www.reddit.com/r/TheoryOfReddit/comments/3d2hv3/kn0thing_says_he_was_responsible_for_the_change/ct1fsoi/?context=3 https://www.reddit.com/r/TheoryOfReddit/comments/3d2hv3/kn0t... Note, I'm not affiliated with Pao, I just thought her treatment by the reddit community was extremely disappointing.