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Exactly. They went to extensive lengths to set up complex filtering to suppress linking any information about this employee's background. Yet, at the same time,

Exactly. They went to extensive lengths to set up complex filtering to suppress linking any information about this employee's background. Yet, at the same time, they claim that the employee's background came as a surprise to them. It's bordering on self-contradictory.

darkwizard42 6y ago
Like surely the employee must have mentioned to HR something along the lines of "people are harassing me, it should stop" and HR might go "okay we will look into that" and someone should have looked into it to see what all the controversy was about...like even a little?
- pseudalopex 6y ago
  Reddit job descriptions promise pseudonymity protection.[1] Seems like harassment is common. [1] http://web.archive.org/web/20210325002519/https://boards.greenhouse.io/reddit/jobs/3005811 http://web.archive.org/web/20210325002519/https://boards.gre...
michaelt 6y ago
Having gone through Ellen Pao's tenure as CEO, perhaps Reddit took away the lesson that they need to protect employees from harassment by the community. I don't know if that's the right lesson, and I don't work for Reddit, but as a manager I'd never expect my employees to put up with death threats from customers.
- tmotwu 6y ago
  This is an extremely valid point. What happened to Pao was an absolute horrible stain in that community's history. The fact that their board succumbed to the mob was a huge let down. Folks don't realize this but from here on out, reddit will absolutely lock down and protect any public details of their admin team. It is now on its way to become as opaque as Facebook or Twitter's moderation. I hope redditors are content with this outcome.
- danaris 6y ago
  There's....middle ground, though, y'know? Between "tolerate death threats to employees" and "programmatically ban any user mentioning the name of a particular employee".
lamontcg 6y ago
> They went to extensive lengths to set up complex filtering to suppress linking any information about this employee's background. Except they didn't. They turned on the same bots that they'd use for any internal employee who wasn't any sort of public figure. So assuming you aren't a public figure, this is the same bot that they'd deploy to prevent you from coming under fire from a doxxing campaign if you were working there. And whatever your political leanings you should imagine the worst of the opposite extreme edge of the political spectrum deciding to attack you -- possibly for entirely boston-bombing-level of fake manufactured controversy -- using blogs with hastily written posts on them to attack you to try to get around reddit banning mentions of your name. If you worked there and people decided they hated you and went after you, this is the system you'd want to have deployed to protect you. It wasn't specifically designed for this employee (in fact since it was buggy when used for this employee it was very obviously not specifically designed for this purpose). If you worked at reddit as a community manager and you were being attacked and doxxed would you not want them to go to these kinds of levels to support you?

darkwizard42 6y ago

Like surely the employee must have mentioned to HR something along the lines of "people are harassing me, it should stop" and HR might go "okay we will look into that" and someone should have looked into it to see what all the controversy was about...like even a little?

pseudalopex 6y ago
Reddit job descriptions promise pseudonymity protection.[1] Seems like harassment is common. [1] http://web.archive.org/web/20210325002519/https://boards.greenhouse.io/reddit/jobs/3005811 http://web.archive.org/web/20210325002519/https://boards.gre...

michaelt 6y ago

Having gone through Ellen Pao's tenure as CEO, perhaps Reddit took away the lesson that they need to protect employees from harassment by the community. I don't know if that's the right lesson, and I don't work for Reddit, but as a manager I'd never expect my employees to put up with death threats from customers.

tmotwu 6y ago
This is an extremely valid point. What happened to Pao was an absolute horrible stain in that community's history. The fact that their board succumbed to the mob was a huge let down. Folks don't realize this but from here on out, reddit will absolutely lock down and protect any public details of their admin team. It is now on its way to become as opaque as Facebook or Twitter's moderation. I hope redditors are content with this outcome.
danaris 6y ago
There's....middle ground, though, y'know? Between "tolerate death threats to employees" and "programmatically ban any user mentioning the name of a particular employee".

lamontcg 6y ago

> They went to extensive lengths to set up complex filtering to suppress linking any information about this employee's background. Except they didn't. They turned on the same bots that they'd use for any internal employee who wasn't any sort of public figure. So assuming you aren't a public figure, this is the same bot that they'd deploy to prevent you from coming under fire from a doxxing campaign if you were working there. And whatever your political leanings you should imagine the worst of the opposite extreme edge of the political spectrum deciding to attack you -- possibly for entirely boston-bombing-level of fake manufactured controversy -- using blogs with hastily written posts on them to attack you to try to get around reddit banning mentions of your name. If you worked there and people decided they hated you and went after you, this is the system you'd want to have deployed to protect you. It wasn't specifically designed for this employee (in fact since it was buggy when used for this employee it was very obviously not specifically designed for this purpose). If you worked at reddit as a community manager and you were being attacked and doxxed would you not want them to go to these kinds of levels to support you?