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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?
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 30 2015, @08:43AM
Since we're wildly speculating here, why not "women are leaving in protest for the same reason the RedditRevolt/TheDarkening/AMAgedden happened, a well loved female employee was fired without real explanation".
It sounds a lot more reasonable than the company that hired(and still hires) Chairman Pao discriminates against women.
(Score: 5, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 30 2015, @10:14AM
It strikes me that the people publicly leaving are some of those who actually cared about the Reddit community. This suggests that they don't like what management is planning to do to it.
(Yes, Pao apparently cared about the community - idealogically if not personally. Standing up to the board on behalf of some of the scummiest subreddits has got to count for something)
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Thursday July 30 2015, @06:44PM
...Chairman Pao...
Really? Is this what passes for intelligent discourse these days?
(Score: 2) by joshuajon on Friday July 31 2015, @06:29PM
Have you spent much time on Reddit? Intelligent discourse is not exactly it's strong suit.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 30 2015, @07:29PM
Hire a woman to be an executive and be called out for discrimination against women. Don't have any executive women and be called out for discrimination against women.
Apparently sexual equality jumped the shark when I was not looking and is no longer a valid social cause.