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Reddit Staffers Who Lost Jobs Livid at Being Painted as Low Performers
- version_five 4y agohttps://archive.md/9H6dx https://archive.md/9H6dx
- millzlane 4y agoWouldn't expect anything less from a company who would ban you for making a sarcastic comment. But will easily allow "jail bait" or abuse porn that can't be verified as consensual or allow the many scam bots that run rampant on the site.
- alunchbox 4y agoWoah really? " But will easily allow "jail bait" or abuse porn"? Isn't that major flags for FBI and stuff? Can't imagine it's not been flagged if their servers are hosting the content?
- Tijdreiziger 4y agoGP’s knowledge seems out of date, those subreddits were banned years ago.
- dvngnt_ 4y agolike a decade old
- PenguinCoder 4y agoModerators of a subreddit are not employees of Reddit. Moderators of a subreddit can ban a user on THAT subreddit, for any reason they want. They cannot ban your user from the entire site. That, would be a Reddit employee only.
- walmartwagie 4y agoNot to mention the jannies do it for free
- litiholofan 4y agouncompensated? unrecompensed? unremunerated? unsalaried? pro bono? gratuitous? costless? rent-free? complimentary?
- muh_gradle 4y agoThis is an irrelevant distinction to be made for reddit in 2023. Reddit is profiting off of work from unpaid moderators, who do have a significant say in reddit user experience. And there are a small number of power users that moderate many of the largest subreddits and then some.
- PenguinCoder 4y agoThe GP said: > Wouldn't expect anything less from a company who would ban you for making a sarcastic comment. My point is not irrelevant to the distinction, it IS the distinction. Moderators on Reddit are _not company employees_.
- heywhatupboys 4y agoRemember: one of the "highest ranking" reddit mods with a direct line to the admins is a literal convicted child abuser who beat her wife and kid, all public records, she (now preferred pronouns, MtF, was father), is protected by reddit. Another mod is literally married to a convicted p-dofile who r-ped someone, again, these people post with their real names, all public records. some mods even get a paycheck from reddit! (this was leaked from a zoom convo they had)
- thesid 4y agoThis surely is speculation. After the aimee incident I'm sure reddit would have booted all risky candidates off the payroll
- seattle_spring 4y agoWhat sorts of sarcastic comments would regularly solicit a ban?
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- EricE 4y ago“The initiative, referred to internally as "Scale our Culture & Talent Density," was referenced in an email sent to employees in January.” fired for not being the right race or politics - what a joke.
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- sn_master 4y agoMeanwhile, LinkedIn keeps showing me the exact same ad for a reddit position over and over, even tho I've applied and didn't hear anything since December.
- spamuel 4y agoReddit really seems like a dead-man-walking company. There are too many problems with it - socially, organizationally, and culturally. In the company, but especially on the platform. They're the most rabidly exclusive platform on the internet, and that seems to intensify year over year because the community is locked in a purity spiral of particular ideologies that don't seem to have a limit. They're also extremely exposed to regulation right now. Moreso than any other platform (including TikTok) you can easily find content on Reddit encouraging children to engage in harmful behaviors and adopt extreme and bizarre ideas. And Reddit communities are more often than not led and controlled by people who are completely unknown, but somehow are able to spend career-level amounts of time maintaining their fiefdoms. It's not great. Reddit was really good in the late 2000's when it was constrained to young nerds. Now it's something gross and weird.
- garbagecoder 4y agoSounds like the company that distilled the worst things about the internet has also distilled some of the worst things about SV work culture.
- spamuel 4y ago>But Reddit's messaging has angered some employees who were given high marks in evaluations and then let go. Yeah, managers often damn with faint praise. If your evaluation is full of soft language about how great you are instead of specific metrics on what you've accomplished, you're not doing well. A person I worked with was featured in an interview at one point about workplace discrimination. He showed the interviewer one of his old evals intended to evidence his value as an employee. It featured a lot of flowery language like "works well with others" and praising him for being on time. Meanwhile the dude was a useless narcissist. If you looked closely at the eval sitting on the table in the interview, you could see that the "lacks competence" block was checked. There's no way the interviewer didn't notice it.
- mattpallissard 4y agoBull. Fucking. Shit. That's the exception, not the rule. What's more likely? 1. Reddit did a shitty job hiring, reviewing, working with, and taking remedial actions with a large set of employees. OR 2. Reddit is just another company pulling a chicken-shit move; trying to eek out profits while putting blame on then little guys. There is absolutely no way in hell all these companies are weeding out poor performers this quickly or efficiently. It's actually paradoxical given the pretense of widespread incompetence.