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Reddit User /u/chooter (Victoria) is Dropped From Reddit, Subreddits Protest

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

David Eccles (gringer) writes:

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: 3, Informative) by NCommander on Friday July 03 2015, @06:47AM

    by NCommander (2) Subscriber Badge <michael@casadevall.pro> on Friday July 03 2015, @06:47AM (#204588) Homepage Journal

    /r/technology also went dark briefly only to return. I think because they've got a post that's both here and arstechnica. I actually want to add subreddit-like functionality to SoylentNews; the ground work is done, I just haven't had the energy to finish coding the UI bits.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 03 2015, @07:34AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 03 2015, @07:34AM (#204606)

    Opportunity knocks.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 03 2015, @11:33AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 03 2015, @11:33AM (#204662)

    actually want to add subreddit-like functionality to SoylentNews; the ground work is done, I just haven't had the energy to finish coding the UI bits.

    In that case you're going to need a bigger [youtube.com] server.

    • (Score: 2) by janrinok on Friday July 03 2015, @03:31PM

      by janrinok (52) Subscriber Badge on Friday July 03 2015, @03:31PM (#204751) Journal
      That depends - NC didn't say that he wanted SN to become the new reddit, but that he was looking at adding the same functionality to this site. Personally, though, I think it would also be cool to achieve the former also.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 03 2015, @07:27PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 03 2015, @07:27PM (#204828)

      more like a submarine : )

  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by J.J. Dane on Friday July 03 2015, @04:16PM

    by J.J. Dane (402) on Friday July 03 2015, @04:16PM (#204768)

    Chances are, this is the best window you'll ever see if that's the way you want to take it :-)