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Re:Why We Shut Down Reddit’s ‘Ask Me Anything’ Forum by Zikes on Wednesday July 08, 2015 @12:03PM (#9852487)
Rumors abound. The most prominent rumor is that it was because of a bad public reaction to a Jesse Jackson AMA. Some leaked info from a supposed disgruntled Reddit admin says it's because Ellen Pao pressured Victoria into pushing an NDA + promise of a cut of future sales resulting from AMAs on the AMA subjects, which Victoria disagreed with a little too loudly.
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Re:Why We Shut Down Reddit’s ‘Ask Me Anything’ Forum by nightpool on Wednesday July 08, 2015 @12:08PM (#9852554)
The moderators of IAmA have said that they believe the decision was made to fire her before the Jesse Jackson AMA happened.

EDIT: whoops, didn't mean to downvote you. mobile misclick :(

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Re:Why We Shut Down Reddit’s ‘Ask Me Anything’ Forum by Zikes on Wednesday July 08, 2015 @12:10PM (#9852576)
Which is still speculation.
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Re:Why We Shut Down Reddit’s ‘Ask Me Anything’ Forum by nightpool on Wednesday July 08, 2015 @12:16PM (#9852639)
Sorry, I was a little vague. The mods of r/IAmA have been in contact with reddit admins about the situation, and from how the timeline was explained to them by reddit staff, the decision was made before the Jesse Jackson AMA even happened.

https://www.reddit.com/r/bestof/comments/3bw7ms/top_mod_of_r...

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