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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.

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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.

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  • (Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Friday July 03 2015, @05:23PM

    by tangomargarine (667) on Friday July 03 2015, @05:23PM (#204794)

    The admins were pressuring Victoria (chooter) to start some more commercial-oriented features in the /r/iama subreddit. Essentially they were going to use Ask Me Anything threads as product placements.

    So Slashvertisements, basically, only on Reddit?

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  • (Score: 2) by The Archon V2.0 on Friday July 03 2015, @05:42PM

    by The Archon V2.0 (3887) on Friday July 03 2015, @05:42PM (#204799)

    Don't distract us from discussing important things, like Rampart.