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.
(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.