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

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: 2) by MrGuy on Thursday July 30 2015, @06:01PM

    by MrGuy (1007) on Thursday July 30 2015, @06:01PM (#215960)

    People only think that lemmings blindly follow one another is because the makers of a Disney nature film faked the entire thing [snopes.com] because it made good footage.

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