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I know you are trolling, but people legitimately are asking this question so I will respond. >I can't even get a straight answer as to why they're upset. >they

I know you are trolling, but people legitimately are asking this question so I will respond. >I can't even get a straight answer as to why they're upset. >they're >they Reddit is 160 million people because it is a huge online community. Calling them children and referring to them as a contiguous unit of alike individuals is laughable. So there isn't a straight answer why some subset of 160 million people are angry but a lot of them are for various reasons. >I have no need to dislike Ellen or feel slighted by the woman being fired Brendan Eich was way more qualified to run Mozilla than Pao is to run reddit. He was really fucking good at his job and is one of the smartest engineers in tech. He couldn't effectively do his job and had to resign. It doesn't matter if the backlash was fair, it was impacting the company negatively. Pao is not the right person to run reddit, hasn't made great decisions, is followed by personal scandal and is generally detested by the community(which is reddits product). She has to step down whether you feel slighted about it or not.

nahiluhmot 11y ago
What makes you think parent is trolling?
- vonklaus 11y ago
  Calling people emotional children and upset kids is just flame inducing. Maybe that person wasn't actually trolling but it was obvious crafted to illicit an angry response.
  - dschulz 11y ago
    *elicit
  - dredmorbius 11y ago
    Even where trolling is highly probable, "assume good faith" is generally a better tactic.
psychometry 11y ago
Don't you think you're being a bit premature in your assessment of Pao? She's an interim CEO who's been on the job mere months. Shutting down the subreddits she did needed to happen in order for reddit to be viable long-term. This latest issue is just about disaffected male teenagers looking for a reason to get mad at the new female CEO. It's so transparent and so pathetic.
- oldmanjay 11y ago
  I'm curious about something - do you feel like the obvious bigotry in your statement is justified? It's almost entirely unlikely that you have any real demographic information about the people you are slagging, never mind any actual knowledge of people's reasoning, so from my POV, your statement is borne of pure prejudice. Care to convince me otherwise?
  - psychometry 11y ago
    You have no idea what bigotry is. It's possible to criticize the actions of a group of people without being prejudiced and my assessment is based on actual posts and comments that I've read over the past week. Seeing what kinds of content is upvoted gives you a sense of the overall sentiment and it's hard to rationalize the vitriol of the user base in response to this particular event. Also, reddit's age and gender demographics are not hard to find: http://thepowertoprovoke.com/the-blog/2014/02/reddit-demographics-and-user-surveys.html http://thepowertoprovoke.com/the-blog/2014/02/reddit-demogra...
    - oldmanjay 11y ago
      Interesting opening sentence in your reply. I didn't bother reading past it since starting with an insult like that is as good an excuse to ignore your thoughts as I need. Thanks for making it easy!
      - dang 11y ago
        Please, both of you and everyone else, follow the HN guidelines when commenting on this site. That means replying civilly and substantively, or not at all. This is the rule here, irrespective of how wrong or provocative another user may be. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

nahiluhmot 11y ago

What makes you think parent is trolling?

vonklaus 11y ago
Calling people emotional children and upset kids is just flame inducing. Maybe that person wasn't actually trolling but it was obvious crafted to illicit an angry response.
- dschulz 11y ago
  *elicit
- dredmorbius 11y ago
  Even where trolling is highly probable, "assume good faith" is generally a better tactic.

psychometry 11y ago

Don't you think you're being a bit premature in your assessment of Pao? She's an interim CEO who's been on the job mere months. Shutting down the subreddits she did needed to happen in order for reddit to be viable long-term. This latest issue is just about disaffected male teenagers looking for a reason to get mad at the new female CEO. It's so transparent and so pathetic.

oldmanjay 11y ago
I'm curious about something - do you feel like the obvious bigotry in your statement is justified? It's almost entirely unlikely that you have any real demographic information about the people you are slagging, never mind any actual knowledge of people's reasoning, so from my POV, your statement is borne of pure prejudice. Care to convince me otherwise?
- psychometry 11y ago
  You have no idea what bigotry is. It's possible to criticize the actions of a group of people without being prejudiced and my assessment is based on actual posts and comments that I've read over the past week. Seeing what kinds of content is upvoted gives you a sense of the overall sentiment and it's hard to rationalize the vitriol of the user base in response to this particular event. Also, reddit's age and gender demographics are not hard to find: http://thepowertoprovoke.com/the-blog/2014/02/reddit-demographics-and-user-surveys.html http://thepowertoprovoke.com/the-blog/2014/02/reddit-demogra...
  - oldmanjay 11y ago
    Interesting opening sentence in your reply. I didn't bother reading past it since starting with an insult like that is as good an excuse to ignore your thoughts as I need. Thanks for making it easy!
    - dang 11y ago
      Please, both of you and everyone else, follow the HN guidelines when commenting on this site. That means replying civilly and substantively, or not at all. This is the rule here, irrespective of how wrong or provocative another user may be. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html