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Re:Ellen Pao Is Stepping Down as Reddit’s Chief by austenallred on Friday July 10, 2015 @06:01PM (#9867108)
> I think this was the right thing to do from a PR perspective.

I think this was the right thing to do from a product perspective. Pao didn't really know how to use the site, and didn't ever particularly like the users. I don't know if Huffman likes the users, but one would assume that he would at least know how to use the site he helped build :)

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Re:Ellen Pao Is Stepping Down as Reddit’s Chief by mynameisvlad on Friday July 10, 2015 @06:16PM (#9867231)
Um, proof? The fact that she's been actually active on the site under her own account shows that clearly she knows how to use the site, so that argument alone is moot. I don't know how you can prove she didn't like the users unless she straight up said that.
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Re:Ellen Pao Is Stepping Down as Reddit’s Chief by austenallred on Friday July 10, 2015 @06:20PM (#9867252)
https://np.reddit.com/r/FaithInHumanity/comments/39ee4c/char...

She tried to share a link to a private message. That's the equivalent of my mom emailing me and saying, "Here's the picture - c:\\user\desktop\pic.jpg" - it demonstrates a fundamental misunderstanding of how the site works.

Then everyone who replied was shadowbanned and every post was deleted. So no, she literally didn't know how to use the site.

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Re:Ellen Pao Is Stepping Down as Reddit’s Chief by yen223 on Friday July 10, 2015 @06:36PM (#9867345)
https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/3cucye/an_ol...

The new CEO doesn't know how to make lists. Is he going to catch shit for it?

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Re:Ellen Pao Is Stepping Down as Reddit’s Chief by Natsu on Friday July 10, 2015 @09:48PM (#9868142)
I'll hazard a 'yes' here, based on the comments (see top comment, below). In the interest of fairness, admins can see the private links, so Pao may have just posted to the wrong Reddit, rather than doing something ridiculous (though it would look that way to anyone not familiar with admin powers).

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kciuq1 1758 points 3 hours ago Maybe the first priority is to learn how reddit works.

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Re:Ellen Pao Is Stepping Down as Reddit’s Chief by austenallred on Friday July 10, 2015 @06:49PM (#9867429)
He should
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Re:Ellen Pao Is Stepping Down as Reddit’s Chief by vehementi on Friday July 10, 2015 @09:02PM (#9867992)
Don't you mean, he should be fired, because he is the wrong person for the product, because he literally does not know how to use the site?
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Re:Ellen Pao Is Stepping Down as Reddit’s Chief by austenallred on Friday July 10, 2015 @11:05PM (#9868340)
If he still can't use the product six months from now and the users are revolting, then yes he should be fired
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Re:Ellen Pao Is Stepping Down as Reddit’s Chief by vehementi on Friday July 10, 2015 @11:25PM (#9868380)
He made the product! He can't use the product ten years later!
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Re:Ellen Pao Is Stepping Down as Reddit’s Chief by austenallred on Friday July 10, 2015 @11:44PM (#9868443)
He hasn't used the product in nine years. Wouldn't you say it's possible they've changed the formatting in those nine years?
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Re:Ellen Pao Is Stepping Down as Reddit’s Chief by dang on Saturday July 11, 2015 @01:37PM (#9870741)
This is totally out of line, and we ban accounts that do it repeatedly. Please post civilly and substantively, or not at all.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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Re:Ellen Pao Is Stepping Down as Reddit’s Chief by vehementi on Saturday July 11, 2015 @02:31PM (#9870990)
Sorry! It seemed like such a brazen attempt to trick readers and I responded without much grace. Can't edit it out of my post at this time.
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Re:Ellen Pao Is Stepping Down as Reddit’s Chief by zardeh on Friday July 10, 2015 @10:19PM (#9868212)
No, she intended to post something in an admin sub and didn't. https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/3cbo4m/we_ap...

And they've officially denied shadowbanning anyone in that thread.

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Re:Ellen Pao Is Stepping Down as Reddit’s Chief by SquareWheel on Friday July 10, 2015 @11:19PM (#9868371)
>Then everyone who replied was shadowbanned

Do you have any proof of this? That seems highly unlikely.

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Re:Ellen Pao Is Stepping Down as Reddit’s Chief by danielweber on Friday July 10, 2015 @08:33PM (#9867906)
> Then everyone who replied was shadowbanned

Can you cite something on this? I really doubt it's true, but if true it's devastating.

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