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Any good tl;dr on what happened between Ellen Pao and reddit? I didn't follow the story when it was playing out.

• thomasz 8y ago
  She closed some long running hatefests like fatpeoplehate and took the fall for the very controversial firing of an employee, which later turned out to be Ohanian's decision.
  • ApolloFortyNine 8y ago
    She basically opened the floodgates for banning subreddits Reddit doesn't like. Up until the ban of fatpeoplehate, the only subreddits that would get banned were CP related or based around doxing. Now pretty much anything is on the table.
    • TremendousJudge 8y ago
      >Now pretty much anything is on the table. Not really. The_Donald hasn't been banned even though Reddit doesn't like it. They have kind of hidden it though.
      • dehugger 8y ago
        They shut down a huge number of firearm/alchohol/tobacco related subreddits in the last month, many of which were very mature and welcoming communities, without any warning they they were going to do this to the moderators. Places like r/beerswap and r/pipetobaccomarket, which allowed users to swap product unavailable in their local areas. Now the moderators of big subreddits like r/pipetobacco are organizing alternative websites for their users to go to, before the inevitably get banned without warning for not aligning with Reddit's new image.
        • thomasz 8y ago
          The current events are most likely motivated by legal concerns, and have nothing to do with the decision to shut down hate subs, and happened a long time after Pao left.