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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) by tangomargarine on Wednesday July 15 2015, @04:19PM

    by tangomargarine (667) on Wednesday July 15 2015, @04:19PM (#209432)

    Full Definition of CONSERVATIVE
    1
    : preservative
    2
    a : of or relating to a philosophy of conservatism
    b capitalized : of or constituting a political party professing the principles of conservatism: as (1) : of or constituting a party of the United Kingdom advocating support of established institutions (2) : progressive conservative
    3
    a : tending or disposed to maintain existing views, conditions, or institutions : traditional
    b : marked by moderation or caution
    c : marked by or relating to traditional norms of taste, elegance, style, or manners
    4
    : of, relating to, or practicing Conservative Judaism

    Your own link doesn't support your argument.

    Just because something is new doesn't make it automatically better. I'm sure we can come up with plenty of examples just in the tech field where the old, unexciting but reliable tech got thrown out for the New Hotness...which it turned out was a great deal of work (and money...and pissed-off customers...) to get actually functioning properly, with fewer features.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 15 2015, @06:44PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 15 2015, @06:44PM (#209500)

    Just because something is new doesn't make it automatically better.

    Who said anything about changing just for the sake of change? Oh yeah, that's right, its just a strawman.

    • (Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Wednesday July 15 2015, @08:05PM

      by tangomargarine (667) on Wednesday July 15 2015, @08:05PM (#209551)

      That's what happens when you whip out the absolutes. You made an absolute statement that is by no means factual and I said, "No, that's dumb." Then me proposing a middle ground is conveniently "fallacious."

      You're one of those people who likes to use the Fallacy Fallacy: Find (manufacture) a fallacy in everything and then use that to dismiss it.

      In closing, Conservatism is the PREFERENCE for keeping things the way they are. If you call yourself a conservative and NEVER even consider a new idea, you're not a conservative; you're crazy.

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      • (Score: 2) by aristarchus on Wednesday July 15 2015, @09:30PM

        by aristarchus (2645) on Wednesday July 15 2015, @09:30PM (#209617) Journal

        Wow!

        In closing, Conservatism is the PREFERENCE for keeping things the way they are. If you call yourself a conservative and NEVER even consider a new idea, you're not a conservative; you're crazy.

        Well said, Tangomargarine! Will this help?