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: 2) by Tork on Wednesday July 15 2015, @05:12PM
At the end of the day if you educate your citizens to use their minds then words are just words.
Except... they're not. Otherwise Free Speech has no value.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 16 2015, @11:19AM
Utterly false. People can choose to accept your claims or not. Free speech is useful because it lets you communicate ideas without being punished by the government, enabling you to perhaps convince some people of whatever it is you're arguing for, relieving your stress, saying what you want to say, or some other such thing. It doesn't suddenly because useless if most people actually use their brains when listening to you; that's purely nonsensical.