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Two Weeks After Content Policy Update, Reddit’s Head of Community, Jessica Moreno, Has Left Company

posted by janrinok on Thursday July 30 2015, @07:09AM   Printer-friendly
from the another-one-bites-the-dust dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

Reddit's head of community, Jessica Moreno, has left the company. She is the fourth senior female employee to exit in less than a month.

Moreno and her husband, former Reddit product boss Dan McComas, joined the company in 2011 when their gift-exchange service, RedditGifts, was acquired by Reddit. Reddit and Moreno confirmed news of the departure to Re/code in separate statements provided by the company, saying that Moreno plans to return to Salt Lake City to spend time with her family. Neither Moreno nor Reddit specified who would replace her, but Moreno said she's "working with [CEO] Steve [Huffman] on a transition plan."

In her statement, Moreno didn't mention anything related to gender discrimination. Her exit is the latest by a female higher-up at the social news site at a time when the company's efforts to rein in the most toxic elements of its community have been in the spotlight.

Human group dynamics are mysterious. Did Moreno leave because there is real gender discrimination at Reddit that she's reacting to, or is it a lemming effect, where some will jump off the cliff because the one ahead of them in line did? Or is she a statistical quirk, having had her company acquired by Reddit and now deciding to move on, and the world reads deeper meaning into it because of the timing?

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by PiMuNu on Thursday July 30 2015, @07:30AM

    by PiMuNu (3823) on Thursday July 30 2015, @07:30AM (#215784)

    One needs the statistics of how many (proportionately) male employees left in the same period, to say there is a correlation male vs female; and one would need historical data to say that there is a particular increase in retirements.

    One would need to see the pay structure/banding structure of the employees to understand seniority (for example, in a dotcom with relatively small number of employees, everyone can be "head of something".

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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 30 2015, @08:13AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 30 2015, @08:13AM (#215795)

    One needs the statistics of how many (proportionately) male employees left in the same period, to say there is a correlation male vs female;

    and one needs a representative statistics about this from other companies as well, to say whether any possible correlation is specific to Reddit.

  • (Score: 2) by kadal on Thursday July 30 2015, @08:18PM

    by kadal (4731) on Thursday July 30 2015, @08:18PM (#216004)

    Isn't Reddit too small for any meaningful statistic?