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One of the largest sites on the internet had a large % of its content set private by moderators in protest of the firing of an employee. Now thousands of peopl

One of the largest sites on the internet had a large % of its content set private by moderators in protest of the firing of an employee. Now thousands of people are calling for the CEO to step down. I'd hardly call that "non-news"... but to each their own I guess.

baby 11y ago
> One of the largest sites on the internet had a large % of its content set private by moderators in protest of the firing of an employee. Yes and there was already a post on that edit: btw it's not exactly in the protest of a firing of an employee, and it's not either because of Ellen Pao. It was to show the admins the poor communication between them and them mods + bad moderation tools available to the mods. But a lot of trolls took this as an opportunity to put reddit on fire/blame Ellen Pao. If you look at the topics of the subreddits re-opening (and they re-opened because admins answered in the positive in r/modtalk), you will see that everyone is insulting the mods for re-opening the subs and not going dark longer. There is no true argumentation behind this, it was just "fuck you for caving we need victoria back" > Now thousands of people are calling for the CEO to step down No, that's always been the case that there is some sort of a "meme" against Ellen Pao for different questionable reasons (although I'd have to admit I don't like the fact that she doesn't seem to use reddit). This "meme" is more than a "meme" actually, it has become true harassment filled with racists/sexists jokes, photoshops, doxxing on the CEO. This is bullying, I don't see why HN would endorse that (this sort of story should be ignored)
- mintplant 11y ago
  It's rather frustrating--the subreddit shutdowns had little to do with the "Pao must resign" crowd, but they're being co-opted by the same as validation of their crusade against her.

baby 11y ago

> One of the largest sites on the internet had a large % of its content set private by moderators in protest of the firing of an employee. Yes and there was already a post on that edit: btw it's not exactly in the protest of a firing of an employee, and it's not either because of Ellen Pao. It was to show the admins the poor communication between them and them mods + bad moderation tools available to the mods. But a lot of trolls took this as an opportunity to put reddit on fire/blame Ellen Pao. If you look at the topics of the subreddits re-opening (and they re-opened because admins answered in the positive in r/modtalk), you will see that everyone is insulting the mods for re-opening the subs and not going dark longer. There is no true argumentation behind this, it was just "fuck you for caving we need victoria back" > Now thousands of people are calling for the CEO to step down No, that's always been the case that there is some sort of a "meme" against Ellen Pao for different questionable reasons (although I'd have to admit I don't like the fact that she doesn't seem to use reddit). This "meme" is more than a "meme" actually, it has become true harassment filled with racists/sexists jokes, photoshops, doxxing on the CEO. This is bullying, I don't see why HN would endorse that (this sort of story should be ignored)

mintplant 11y ago
It's rather frustrating--the subreddit shutdowns had little to do with the "Pao must resign" crowd, but they're being co-opted by the same as validation of their crusade against her.