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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: 0, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 03 2015, @06:28AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 03 2015, @06:28AM (#204576)

    It's the middle of the Great Recession, and people can't afford to employ people anymore. Even the Troops are feeling the pinch, being replaced by drones and killbots.

    Thank Bush-Laden for ruining the country, thank O-fucking-Bama for breaking every single promise to change anything, and thank you motherfucking voters for voting for scum for the past sixteen years. Fuck you, American asshole voters. Fuck all of you, you shit eating cunts. You fucked up everything. You.

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  • (Score: 1, Troll) by Bot on Friday July 03 2015, @06:41AM

    by Bot (3902) on Friday July 03 2015, @06:41AM (#204583) Journal

    Blaming the victim much, eh?

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    • (Score: 3, Informative) by Hartree on Friday July 03 2015, @06:47AM

      by Hartree (195) on Friday July 03 2015, @06:47AM (#204586)

      I think he's blaming everyone but himself.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 03 2015, @06:52AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 03 2015, @06:52AM (#204592)

        Let's be honest here, fuckface. You voted for Obama, didn't you? You are to blame for the distinct lack of hope or change. Fuck you.

        • (Score: 2) by Hartree on Friday July 03 2015, @06:56AM

          by Hartree (195) on Friday July 03 2015, @06:56AM (#204593)

          There, there. Go lie down and take a Xanax. I promise it will get better and the octopuses will go away.

          (Actually, no I didn't. I voted for Gary Johnson. I think I've given you an exclusive as I don't think I've even mentioned that to my family. Aren't you such a special snowflake? :) )

        • (Score: 2) by Tork on Friday July 03 2015, @03:29PM

          by Tork (3914) Subscriber Badge on Friday July 03 2015, @03:29PM (#204750)
          As pleas for attention go, that one's pretty desperate.
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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 03 2015, @06:48AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 03 2015, @06:48AM (#204589)

      What's the matter, kid, you don't understand how representative government works? You know, if you live long enough to grow up and register to vote, you might notice that here in the real world, after voters learn that their duly elected leaders are evil lying sacks of shit, they can CHOOSE NOT TO RE-ELECT THEM TWICE. Now go play in traffic, you stupid little shit.

      • (Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Friday July 03 2015, @05:33PM

        by tangomargarine (667) on Friday July 03 2015, @05:33PM (#204797)

        Show me a president we've re-elected twice since FDR.

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        • (Score: 2) by dry on Saturday July 04 2015, @05:16AM

          by dry (223) on Saturday July 04 2015, @05:16AM (#204936) Journal

          I parsed it as "two lying bags of shit that got re-elected". Of course given the choices and the fucked up voting system, America might as well be China where the progressive and conservative wings of the Party take turns running things, excepting having a nice head of hair doesn't matter for being leader in China.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 03 2015, @07:07AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 03 2015, @07:07AM (#204601)

      Yes. Being a victim does not mean you aren't responsible for your problems. If you run into an airport with a bunch of wires around your chest and scream "Admiral Akbar", then it will be entirely your fault if you get shot. This phrase is usually used as a rebuttal to the common fallacy of shifting the blame, but that is not the case here.

  • (Score: 3, Troll) by jasassin on Friday July 03 2015, @06:57AM

    by jasassin (3566) <jasassin@gmail.com> on Friday July 03 2015, @06:57AM (#204595) Homepage Journal

    Fuck you, American asshole voters. Fuck all of you, you shit eating cunts. You fucked up everything. You.

    I understand your ignorance. Before you condemn the people, you should watch this episode of the T.V. program "South Park":

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douche_and_Turd [wikipedia.org]

    The plot description in the link pretty much sums it up.

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