Posted on 07/10/2015 8:42:41 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Reddit's embattled interim CEO, Ellen Pao, has stepped down from her lead position at the popular social media site, the website announced Friday.
"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," Pao wrote in a post on the site.
"I just want to remind everyone that I am just another human; I have a family, and I have feelings. Everyone attacked on reddit is just another person like you and me. When people make something up to attack me or someone else, it spreads, and we eventually will see it. And we will feel bad, not just about what was said. Also because it undercuts the authenticity of reddit and shakes our faith in humanity."
The announcement was made through a post from Sam Altman, a Reddit board member. Atlman also announced Pao's replacement: Reddit's co-founder and original CEO Steve Huffman.
"Ellen Pao resigned from reddit today by mutual agreement. I'm delighted to announce that Steve Huffman, founder and the original reddit CEO, is returning as CEO. We are thankful for Ellen’s many contributions to reddit and the technology industry generally. She brought focus to chaos, recruited a world-class team of executives, and drove growth," Sam Altman, a Reddit board member, wrote on a Reddit thread.
Last week, multiple sections of Reddit were locked down in protest on July 2 after Victoria Taylor was fired. Taylor was Reddit's former director of talent responsible for the sites' popular AMA (Ask Me Anything) series.
Pao became interim CEO of Reddit in November 2014, replacing Yishan Wong. She received push-back from unhappy users in an effort to make the website more inviting, NBC News reported.
In May, Pao again drew flak for limiting comments that the site perceived as harassment, then shut down some communities that were seen to be harassing people a month later, according to NBC News.
As part of its commitment to gender equality, Reddit doesn't take part in salary negotiations with job candidates, Pao revealed in an April Wall Street Journal interview that drew some criticism. "She brought a face to reddit that changed perceptions, and is a pioneer for women in the tech industry. She will remain as an advisor to the board through the end of 2015. I look forward to seeing the great things she does beyond that," Altman said in the announcement.
The former Reddit leader first made headlines in March 2015 when a jury decided that a venture capital firm Pao had worked for did not discriminate or retaliate against a female employee in a case that debated gender imbalance in the workplace. The lawsuit claimed Pao was fired when she complained about discrimination at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.
"I have told my story and thousands of people have heard it. If I helped to level the playing field for women and minorities in venture capital, then the battle was worth it,'' Pao said, adding that she will return to her career, family and friends.
SJW wasteland, I heard.
What does that mean?
Reddit? I thought it was more like an MRA wasteland.
SJW = Social Justice Warrior.
Basically a commie.
Basically a commie.
SJWs grew out of the game-coding world where women demanded entrance, equality and changes to a culture they envied but did nothing to establish, and demanded it not on merit, but because of their gender.
The SJW disease has spread quickly– though not without significant pushback and backlash. They are the darlings of Occupy, disaffected feminists, and the like. They are 1000% in the bag for Hillary, which is all you really need to know. That dipwad NAACP saltine/Oreo girl Rachel Dolezal is a poster child for the SJW movement.
The upside is that they live and breathe emotion, and are easily crumpled by logic and facts.
True adherents are identifiable by size, armpit hair and 'body art'.
Ellen Pao. She might suck as a CEO, but I really like her chicken recipe.
Sorry for my ignorance, but what exactly does Reddit do?
You’ll have to ask someone else for what they claim to do. As far as I can tell they give a place for people who think 4chan- is a little to extreme to hang out.
It hosts random discussions. E.g., here is the number two hit on the front page at the moment:
It's a web site where the emotionally adolescent of all ages go to have their self worth validated by other emotional adolescents all while being quietly subjected to left wing socio-psychological experimentation by slimy sociology professors and their minions who snicker at how easily these people are duped.
Thanks. It's hard to keep up with the acronyminization of the news.
Thank you for the POW link on Reddit. Truly amazing stories by so many of the survivors, even though one must put up with McCain.
While there is a lot of adolescent fooling around in the thread, there are also large sections of the thread containing useful discussion, the way FR can be at times, less so now than years ago. I think the relative youth of the respondents at Reddit is influential. They are just discovering accounts of the history many of us older troop supporters lived through.
That thread in particular contained a discussion of the relative merits of socialism, capitalism and communism, with varying degrees of understanding by the various posters. It’s good to see a younger group still able to figure out the merits of capitalism/free markets vs. the compulsory utopianism (bound for failure) of socialism/communism.
Well said!
One legitimate thread does not even come close to validating the worth of that web site. It is a black hole of vapid self indulgent insecurity that sucks people in and chains them to their demons under the guise of freeing them.
To paraphrase Iowahawk, Ellan Pao should be thanked for helping to destroy the stereotype of Asians as smart, hardworking, successful people.
You’re confusing her with her cousin, Ellen Kung-Pao.
Hope you bank account doesn’t get vaporized. Lol.
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