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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: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 30 2015, @12:41PM
The culture that is being cited as the reason for everyone leaving is not new. Victoria was the first and probably the most principled refugee. The rest since then are less so. They were just waiting for a trigger.
What is fun to watch is that now there is true momentum for exodus of more people to quit. At least to the degree that Reddit has female employees which I don't know how many there actually are in total.
Overall, Reddit is a cancerous version of its former self. Personally, I say let it burn.
(Score: 2) by Lagg on Thursday July 30 2015, @02:56PM
Yeah, deleted my two year old account after just getting generally disgusted with the internal drama and weirdness that occurs in all the "good" subs (the internet makes it easy to fixate on topics as it is, reddit makes it very easy). I've just been going back to lurking and randomly experimenting with crap. Like twitter. Which is a surreal and fascinating experience. There are so many insane and depraved individuals to read posts from.
http://lagg.me [lagg.me] 🗿
(Score: 2) by nukkel on Thursday July 30 2015, @08:22PM
There are so many insane and depraved individuals to read posts from.
Yet, here I am, replying to your post :)