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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.
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(Score: 2) by Anal Pumpernickel on Thursday July 16 2015, @02:37AM
For example, every criticism of Obama for things that literally every other president has done, or done worse - what makes Obama so different from everyone else who did it to evoke such a response?
The fact that others guys did it too does not indicate that Obama is not an evil scumbag; all it indicates is that all the others were evil scumbags as well. But do I really have to list every politician I have issues with before I can criticize the guy who is currently in power? Because the list would truly be endless.
By the way, even if they only criticize Obama, that isn't even necessarily racist; it could just be that they've bought into the one party scam, and believe the guy who belongs to the group on the other side of the coin is bad because he's part of that group (a Democrat in this case). You see the same thing happen with other politicians who are Republicans; people will criticize them for X, yet allow Democrats to get away with the same nonsense.
its certainly not because he's issued more of them
Quality, not quantity. It could be because they erroneously believe that his executive orders have been much worse than other presidents' executive orders, showing their ignorance of history. Executive orders are simply routinely abused by pretty much every president.
because no previous D president was reviled like this
This is just bad logic. You can't simply pretend that every individual who does such things is racist, because that would be a hasty generalization. This is one huge argument from ignorance ("I can't imagine X not being the answer, so X must be the answer."). So while there are certainly racists, you're making too many generalizations.