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.
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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.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by NCommander on Friday July 03 2015, @08:40AM
Holy hell, this makes the /. protest look like small fries. At least 5-6 of the defaults are down, and more are going down every second. Most of my subreddits are gone with the exception of /r/dwarffortress. I'm not sure there will be a reddit left in 24 hours ...
Still always moving
(Score: 2) by takyon on Friday July 03 2015, @09:17AM
You're still awake? Implement subredd... nexu... nexii!
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(Score: 2) by NCommander on Friday July 03 2015, @09:23AM
Not awake enough to code, and the admin code hasn't had a lot of love as of late. I won't mind doing a small pilot with a few people getting global editor bits to manage a nexus or two until I can implement the necessary ACL code, though I would need to run that by the editoral team to see if it will fly.
Still always moving
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 03 2015, @10:33AM
(Score: 3, Funny) by The Archon V2.0 on Friday July 03 2015, @07:04PM
Dibs on /s/Jailbait!
(No, not really.)