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The BBC are reporting that troubled community website Reddit has lost another female member of its senior team with the resignation of chief engineer Bethanye Blount, only days after the resignation of Ellen Pao. The BBC report continues:
Ms Blount told website Recode she believed Ms Pao had been put on a "glass cliff" - or set up to fail. Victoria Taylor, who oversaw a popular question-and-answer section of the site, was sacked last month.
"Victoria wasn't on a glass cliff. But it's hard for me to see it any other way than Ellen was," Bethanye Blount said in an interview.
But Ms Blount, a former Facebook employee, added that her own decision to leave Reddit just two months after joining, had not been based on gender issues. And new chief executive, Steve Huffman, said he was "confident" that the site could recruit female executives.
The phrase "glass cliff" is used to describe women placed in leadership roles during times of crisis, when positive change is hard to achieve.
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Despite the ongoing turmoil, Reddit is in good financial shape, according to Mr Huffman, also one of its co-founders.
"Reddit has a lot of cash," he said, in an Ask Me Anything session on the site.. "Monetisation isn't a short-term concern of ours."
The site currently attracts 164 million monthly users.
Original Submission
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Wootery on Wednesday July 15 2015, @12:01PM
We have had Soylentils claiming that moderation was censorship. And we have had some people (who?) claiming that being racist, sexist, misogynist, or fascist is all part of free speech.
Being allowed to say unpopular things is precisely what freedom of expression means. Seriously, that's its definition.
But there is no obligation for us to try and make sense of the noises coming out of their pie-holes!
I thought we were discussing censorship, not interpretation...
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 15 2015, @12:10PM
Freedom of expression means that you're free to say it, but that doesn't mean you're free of the consequences of saying it, eg, being shunned, ostracized, and mocked for being a bigot. Bigots are always crying about the backlash from people after they voice their bigotry, but being told to STFU and losing your reputation is not an infringement of one's freedom of expression.
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Wednesday July 15 2015, @07:53PM
So would you consider being allowed to say politically incorrect things, but as soon as you say it they take you out back and shoot you, as fair game?
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 3, Interesting) by ikanreed on Wednesday July 15 2015, @01:09PM
Racist, sexist, misogynistic, and fascist speech is free speech.
But a community laden with that bullshit isn't one a lot of people are going to like hanging around. Reddit "solved" that with subreddits and voting, but then even worse shits engaged in highly unethical behaviors that couldn't really be called "speech" started making shit like /r/jailbait, or illegal incitement against a public figure in the case of /r/fatpeoplehate. It wasn't sustainable.