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 aristarchus on Thursday July 16 2015, @09:40AM
And I would say the fact that you send data is itself proof that you were trying to say or convey something. Maybe to try to demonstrate some sort of point.
And what exactly makes you think it was data? It is static, noise, random keypresses, not even pseudo! So for you to think it means something just shows you have "A Beautiful Mind". If I cannot make you understand what it is that I am communicating (and evidently this is the case), then whatever you get out of the exchange is not communication. I am done talking to you, since you refuse to discuss nonsense in a serious manner, and you have failed to disrespect my attempts at gibberish. I am sorely hurt, wounded to the core, and I have no recourse other than to express to you that I cannot understand how you possibly could understand what I intended to make no sense. Unless, of course, you are getting my point! So I just want to say, "I am not a racist, but . . .. " Wink, Wink, Nudge, Nudge; say no more! say no more!
(Score: 2) by Anal Pumpernickel on Thursday July 16 2015, @09:56AM
And what exactly makes you think it was data?
Everything that I've said about interpretations and the potential for language to evolve, even if it evolves only in certain contexts or to certain individuals.
If I cannot make you understand what it is that I am communicating (and evidently this is the case), then whatever you get out of the exchange is not communication.
It's not about either of us as individuals.