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posted by janrinok on Wednesday July 15 2015, @06:32AM   Printer-friendly
from the reddit-woes dept.

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.

[...]

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.


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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 15 2015, @01:37PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 15 2015, @01:37PM (#209368)

    SJW"s aren't real

    I wish. Apparently many of my old 'friends' turned into them. Fighting for causes one 'like' at a time. Tell me that I am a horrible person because I do not agree with them. Then I remember why I stopped hanging out with them and they are now 'facebook friends'.

    "so do you donate to XYZ?" "Oh yeah they are a good organization" "oh good for you put your money where your mouth is" "Yep thats right" "What did they spend your money on?" "Uhhhh, they spent it on the thing to save the ABC" "Are you sure? Did you see them cut the check and pay for anything? They could have had a blow out party to 'raise' more money for all you know and you helped pay for the cake." "well I trust them" "why?" "uhhh". Pretty much every time. Very few times have I found someone who bothered to research the org they threw money at.

    speaking is definitely an action
    Actions speak louder than words. I always like to think of the scene from the Blues Brothers. The dudes were allowed to do the march. Well Jake and Elwood did not agree with it so they tried to run them off the road. No one hurt, but everyone got their say. People also seem to equate giving dollars to these people will do something. It is lazy and does nothing. I follow my money. A few organizations stopped getting my donation after a bit of digging into the org. Finding good charities to donate to is hard. As unfortunately there are a lot of bad ones out there who use the good intentions of others for a pay day. Even good ones are many times badly run.

    Free speech is just that. You are allowed to speak your mind. It does not mean however you get to shut down the other side because you disagree with it. Free speech is a 2 way street.

    Still dont think so? Try this little experiment. It will cost you a few bucks (less if you can bum one off someone). Buy 1 pack of cigarettes and a bic lighter. You are not going to smoke them. You are going to learn what it is like to be on the other end of a SJW's wrath. After you have bought them find a mall. Any mall will do, so long as it is decently busy. Walk into it and sit down. Pull out one cig and act like you are smoking it, flick a bic lighter for flair if you want. Within an hour you will have people swing by and inform you of the rules. You can even inform them that you are 'not smoking its just sitting here'. They will still lose their shit. The tirade you get will not mater. I want to show you what it is like. How they use the very verbal abuse you are against to shut down things they do not think is right. That is but one small example.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 15 2015, @06:38PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 15 2015, @06:38PM (#209498)

    SJW"s aren't real

    I wish. Apparently many of my old 'friends' turned into them. Fighting for causes one 'like' at a time. Tell me that I am a horrible person because I do not agree with them. Then I remember why I stopped hanging out with them and they are now 'facebook friends'.

    "so do you donate to XYZ?" "Oh yeah they are a good organization" "oh good for you put your money where your mouth is" "Yep thats right" "What did they spend your money on?" "Uhhhh, they spent it on the thing to save the ABC" "Are you sure? Did you see them cut the check and pay for anything? They could have had a blow out party to 'raise' more money for all you know and you helped pay for the cake." "well I trust them" "why?" "uhhh". Pretty much every time. Very few times have I found someone who bothered to research the org they threw money at.

    Yeah, they're totally "psycho[s] spreading hate based on shitty rejected theories and no facts, but [calling] people objecting [to them] racist and misogynist and holocaust denialists" there aren't they? So how exactly does that prove "SJW"s exist, unless "SJW" is defined as "anyone who disagrees with you" rather than the bullshit the GP is trying to assert are actions to be expected of them? You need to come back to reality, you've clearly gotten lost in your persecution complex.