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bluedigger

(17,086 posts)
Fri Jul 10, 2015, 05:49 PM Jul 2015

Angry Redditors Win: Ellen Pao Is Out as CEO

After a week of controversy, Ellen Pao is out as the CEO of Reddit, the tenth most-trafficked site in the US.

The controversy began when Pao fired Reddit’s popular AMA coordinator Victoria Taylor. Subreddits appeared across the site calling for her resignation, as well as over 200,000 people signing a Change.org petition urging her to step down. Pao’s being replaced by Reddit cofounder and former chief, Steve Huffman. Pao was CEO for eight months.

Earlier this week, Pao publicly acknowledged poor handling of not just the Taylor situation, but for many instances of bad community management. She will stick around as an board advisor, Reddit says.

http://gizmodo.com/angry-redditors-win-ellen-pao-is-out-as-ceo-1717117695


Reddit to Pao - "pew, pew pew!"
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Angry Redditors Win: Ellen Pao Is Out as CEO (Original Post) bluedigger Jul 2015 OP
This is the same Ellen Pao who was behind the Kleiner Perkins lawsuit KamaAina Jul 2015 #1
I can't believe you made me google that. bluedigger Jul 2015 #2
Hubby seems to like to sue nationalize the fed Jul 2015 #3
I've never been to Reddit site. nt roody Jul 2015 #4
It's kind of like DU's subscription groups, only very, very large DisgustipatedinCA Jul 2015 #7
I have heard it has mostly male participants...true? Liberal_in_LA Jul 2015 #10
Without knowing the numbers, I assume a large majority is male DisgustipatedinCA Jul 2015 #11
I figgured she would be gone soon. She lost the support of the community Travis_0004 Jul 2015 #5
Indeed, since reddit basically is only 'community' that was really bad. n/t PoliticAverse Jul 2015 #6
Yeah I saw that coming LittleBlue Jul 2015 #8
Agreed... Spatened Jul 2015 #9
The expendable (i.e. interim anything) should know better than to fire the indispensable Sen. Walter Sobchak Jul 2015 #12
Iranian said he dismissed Victoria tammywammy Jul 2015 #16
I don't get the attraction of Reddit IDemo Jul 2015 #13
It's #10 on US Alexa nationalize the fed Jul 2015 #14
This gif sums it up for her departure romanic Jul 2015 #15
 

KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
1. This is the same Ellen Pao who was behind the Kleiner Perkins lawsuit
Fri Jul 10, 2015, 05:56 PM
Jul 2015

Looks like KP may in fact have had reasons to terminate her other than her gender after all.

bluedigger

(17,086 posts)
2. I can't believe you made me google that.
Fri Jul 10, 2015, 06:06 PM
Jul 2015

She's had a not very good, lousy year. Looks like the clock is ticking on her appeal: "Notice of appeal was filed June 1, 2015, 7 days before the deadline of June 8. Plaintiff has 40 days to specify her grounds for appeal."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pao_v._Kleiner_Perkins

Anybody want to place a bet on her not suing Reddit?

nationalize the fed

(2,169 posts)
3. Hubby seems to like to sue
Fri Jul 10, 2015, 06:08 PM
Jul 2015

as well

Alphonse Fletcher vs. Kidder Peabody

In 1991, after working as an equity trader at Kidder Peabody, Fletcher filed a lawsuit in New York state court for employment racial discrimination. The New York Court of Appeals ruled that Fletcher's claim must be arbitrated. In a NYSE arbitration, Fletcher was awarded $1.26 million, and in a subsequent arbitration, the racial discrimination claim was dismissed.

Dakota lawsuit

In February 2011, Fletcher filed a lawsuit against the Board of Directors of The Dakota co-op building in Manhattan, where he had lived since 1992 and owned four apartments.[4] Among other things, he alleged defamation and unlawful discrimination.[27] In March 2010, Fletcher had signed a contract to purchase a fifth apartment at The Dakota, intending to combine it with his current home. The Dakota board said it rejected Fletcher's application based on the financial materials he provided in his application.

Hedge fund meltdown

In March 2014, The New York Times reported that "The trustee overseeing the bankruptcy of the investment firm once led by the flashy money manager Alphonse Fletcher Jr. has reached a $4.25 million settlement with the law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom." The overall legal fees generated by Fletcher and his wife Ellen Pao have been estimated at over $40m.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddy_Fletcher




Good Riddance Chairman Pao

https://www.reddit.com/r/self/comments/3cudi0/resignation_thank_you/
551 comments so far (Edit- That's 551 comments in 53 minutes- that's impressive)

After more than two years at reddit, I have resigned today. My first day was April 1, 2013 (go orangered!), and every day since has been an adventure.

In my eight months as reddit’s CEO, I’ve seen the good, the bad and the ugly on reddit. The good has been off-the-wall inspiring, and the ugly made me doubt humanity....
 

DisgustipatedinCA

(12,530 posts)
7. It's kind of like DU's subscription groups, only very, very large
Fri Jul 10, 2015, 06:32 PM
Jul 2015

Here, we have groups like Fiction, Photography, Netflix, and so on.

At Reddit, they have the same, only they have lots more content. Each section of Reddit is called a subreddit, and you get to the subreddit using this format:
http://www.reddit.com/r/photography , i.e., after reddit.com, add /r/, and then the name of the subreddit you're interested in. There are many thousands of subreddits. Some are extremely busy (/r/politics, /r/news). Some hardly get any activity. You can create your own subreddits if you'd like.

Here are a couple of my favorite subreddits for general interest:

/r/TodayILearned : lots of people like this one. Example post: TIL the longest point in pro tennis history was a 643-shot rally that lasted for 29 minutes. Lots of trivial and not-so-trivial facts available here.

/r/historyporn : No, it's not pornography--it's historical photos. Example: photos of the Hindenburg exploding, pictures of bills being signed into law, pictures of women assembling aircraft in WW2, and so on.

I have lots of more specific subreddits I subscribe to, e.g., /r/bordercollie (I have one), /r/iphone (I have one), /r/bbq (I have a Weber grill), /r/rush (love the band, not the AM radio freak), and so on. Anything you're interested in, from gardening to simple living to marijuana to rabbit foot collecting, you can find a group on reddit that covers it.


 

DisgustipatedinCA

(12,530 posts)
11. Without knowing the numbers, I assume a large majority is male
Fri Jul 10, 2015, 09:43 PM
Jul 2015

and I'm aware of some of the subreddits that are mysoginistic, but I'm not subscribed to those subreddits--I don't see what's being said there. The subreddits I subscribe to are effectively moderated, and I don't see that sort of thing (with some exceptions in humor-related groups). You have a great deal of control over what you do and don't see.

 

Travis_0004

(5,417 posts)
5. I figgured she would be gone soon. She lost the support of the community
Fri Jul 10, 2015, 06:18 PM
Jul 2015

Support of the community is probably the number one job for a ceo, as its easy for them to move on and go elsewhere.

Here are my thoughts on her leaving.

 

Sen. Walter Sobchak

(8,692 posts)
12. The expendable (i.e. interim anything) should know better than to fire the indispensable
Fri Jul 10, 2015, 09:51 PM
Jul 2015

It reminds me of when I worked for a major retailer, a woman from a store out of state was brought in to cover the manager on maternity leave. She came from a much smaller store and just saw waste everywhere she looked and fired most of the merchandising people within the first couple of weeks.

The store looked like a Wal-Mart the day after Black Friday almost immediately thereafter.

I gotta tell ya though, I did a great fucking job on the window displays. Oh wait, no I didn't. Actually I did such a bad job the designer rep had a temper-tantrum. I did not know for instance that they explicitly forbade using mannequins with nipples. Did I mention I worked in Supply Chain Internal Audit?

IDemo

(16,926 posts)
13. I don't get the attraction of Reddit
Fri Jul 10, 2015, 10:28 PM
Jul 2015

The site has a distinctly 1995-ish look to it, and the content is reminiscent of our kitchen junk drawer -- maybe some useful things to be found, but you need to rummage around a bit.

nationalize the fed

(2,169 posts)
14. It's #10 on US Alexa
Fri Jul 10, 2015, 10:54 PM
Jul 2015

Facebook is #2 and 3,4,5,6,7,8 and 9 are ebay, amazon, youtube etc.

so it's right behind facebook when it comes to interactivity.

#31 in the world.

http://www.alexa.com/topsites/countries/US
Global rankings: http://www.alexa.com/topsites

If you go to a sub of interest, you won't find better news and commentary anywhere else.

For example:
http://www.reddit.com/r/energy or
http://www.reddit.com/r/Solar

ask a scientist- subs like this don't put up with any junk whatsoever
http://www.reddit.com/r/Askscience

Millions and millions of hits per day from around the world. Want to know what's happening in Greece from Greeks? Want to ask a Greek person what's up?

http://www.reddit.com/r/greece

Where else can you do this (except for the new reddit- voat.co)

There's probably a sub for your own community.

Try reddit.com/r/**yourcommunity

The best site in the world for just about anything

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