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posted by takyon on Friday July 03 2015, @06:00AM   Printer-friendly
from the internet-defense-league dept.

Victoria Taylor, the human interface between many celebrities and the Reddit "Ask Me Anything" subreddit, was today unexpectedly let go from her position with Reddit. The nature of the dismissal is unclear, including whether or not it was initiated by Victoria herself. As a result of this action, a large number of popular and/or default subreddits have gone private, or have disabled story submissions.

See here for more updates:

TL;DR /r/IAmA, /r/AskReddit, /r/Books, /r/science, /r/Music, /r/gaming, /r/history, /r/Art, /r/videos, /r/gadgets, /r/todayilearned, /r/Documentaries, /r/LifeProTips, and /r/movies have all made themselves private in response to the removal of an administrator key to the AMA process, /u/chooter, but also due to underlying resentment against the admins for running the site poorly - being uncommunicative, and disregarding the thousands of moderators who keep the site running. In addition, /r/listentothis has disabled all submissions, and so has /r/picsand /r/Jokes has announced its support (but has not gone private). Major subreddits, including /r/4chan, /r/circlejerk and /r/ImGoingToHellForThis, have also expressed solidarity through going private.


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  • (Score: 1) by hopp on Friday July 03 2015, @06:14AM

    by hopp (2833) on Friday July 03 2015, @06:14AM (#204566)

    Eh Fooey.

    I hope reddit doesn't digg. I mean C'mon, there are bound to be some less than optimal labor issues when reddit gets as big as it has but I still believe their corporate Ethos is OK.

  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 03 2015, @01:24PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 03 2015, @01:24PM (#204692)

    Fire Ellen Pao! Nao!

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 03 2015, @09:19PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 03 2015, @09:19PM (#204848)
      Can't. Sue would sue for sexism or some other bullshit thing.

      that's her real job. lawsuits.
      • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 03 2015, @09:53PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 03 2015, @09:53PM (#204851)

        She just needs a deep-dicking to get over her SJW butthurt.