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Reddit’s Terrorists Have Won: Ellen Pao and the Failure to Rebrand Web 2.0
- hedgew 11y agoThe title itself labels Reddit users as terrorists (seems harsh), but it continues to label people as: Toxic, Misogynists, Poisoned, Racists, Haters, Trolls, Pedophiles, Basement-dwellers, White supremacists, Obnoxiously biased, Sixth grade bullies, Conspiracy theorists, Unrepentant sex criminals, Seething underground pool of excrement and bile, Not belonging to "normal, decent portion of the human race" To quote what the writer, Arthur Chu, wrote elsewhere: > "In a war, a real war, a war for survival, you use all the weapons in your arsenal because you assume the enemy will use all the weapons in theirs. Because you understand that it IS a war." This, is what he believes is war, and this is how he thinks it should be fought. Personally I'd prefer niceness and civility.
- astrodust 11y agoNiceness and civility are worthy goals, but that'll never happen at a place like Reddit. The poison is too culturally ingrained. That's not to say there aren't nice people there, just as there are nice people in war zones, but they're not in charge and they get pushed around by forces beyond their control.
- strathmeyer 11y agoHackerNews is the only website that has had somebody call my employerer... because of a comment I made on an article that was later linked here. He made sure to let us know that he made a lot of hiring decisions in tech and wondered why I would upset him so much. That kind of toxicity isn't allowed on Reddit.
- DanBC 11y agoDid you email HN to let them know?
- strathmeyer 11y ago...the threats were e mails from HN. When trolls threaten you the appropriate response is to ignore them. Now I just don't know if the reason I can't find a job is because I am on a blacklist somewhere.
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- thelastguy 11y agoReddit calling their users terrorists? And they wonder why all their userbase are leaving in doves.
- mikeyouse 11y agoI personally left because it became highly approved / encouraged to call Ellen Pao a cunt every other post followed by all manner of racist bullshit. Lo-and-behold, the idiot neoreactionary mob was wrong again and Ellen was trying to protect the reddit culture, but there will be no apology, they'll just move on to the next faux-outrage that justifies their intense racism and misogyny. When thinly veiled stormfront posts regularly make it to the front page of your forum, it's time to jump ship and watch the burning mess from afar.
- monstruoso 11y agoPeople where mad at her because she obviously is a scammer, along with her husband. Her rap sheet and her actions were the things that brought her animosity from the users. I do not support the view that it was because reddit users obviously hate women, all women and since Pao is a woman, they must hate her too. I think that position is inane.
- norea-armozel 11y agoSo, that gives people a free pass to be misogynists and racists? Okay, that's good to know. /s
- monstruoso 11y agoEveryone with an opinion is a racist, rapist, misogynist nowadays.
- hullo 11y agoI think a big tell here is that when someone is talking about a certain subset of the reddit userbase that acts in a certain way, that if one reads that and thinks the person was talking about everyone on reddit, then one may actually fall within the subset under discussion.