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Re:Ellen Pao Is Stepping Down as Reddit’s Chief by Uhhrrr on Friday July 10, 2015 @06:18PM (#9867243)
It's very much like GamerGate. There is an attempt to deflect an overwhelming amount of legitimate criticism by pointing to a few trolls and characterizing all of it as "racist and misogynist".
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Re:Ellen Pao Is Stepping Down as Reddit’s Chief by killface on Friday July 10, 2015 @08:38PM (#9867929)
Exactly. They seem to forget that she's part of a ponzi scheme, slept with married men to get ahead, etc.

Even if it was a bunch of racist/misogynist people, you have to consider that despite the messenger, the message might be valid. That's what being open-minded means.

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Re:Ellen Pao Is Stepping Down as Reddit’s Chief by LGBT_2000 on Saturday July 11, 2015 @10:46PM (#9872416)
>Exactly. They seem to forget that she's part of a ponzi scheme, slept with married men to get ahead, etc.

For god's sakes, stop it. This blatant sexism and double standards is disgusting. If Ellen were a man, never in a million years would they be expected to bear responsibility for their spouses' misdeeds or attacked for who they slept with (indeed, they'd be getting high-fived for being a "womanizer" or "stud").

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Re:Ellen Pao Is Stepping Down as Reddit’s Chief by killface on Thursday July 16, 2015 @05:50PM (#9900088)
There's a difference between a double standard and no standard whatsoever.
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Re:Ellen Pao Is Stepping Down as Reddit’s Chief by Uhhrrr on Friday July 10, 2015 @08:53PM (#9867969)
I don't even think people care about that stuff. The interesting accounting is on her husband's plate. The KP stuff only affected things at Reddit when Reddit started to do funny things to stories about it.

Really, her Rampart-level impedance mismatch with the community was enough.

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Re:Ellen Pao Is Stepping Down as Reddit’s Chief by comrh on Friday July 10, 2015 @11:10PM (#9868350)
And just like GamerGate the first reply to this is attacking a woman about her sex life.
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Re:Ellen Pao Is Stepping Down as Reddit’s Chief by venomsnake on Saturday July 11, 2015 @02:43AM (#9868810)
Well, gamers are gamers - in games everything is permitted as long as it brings victory. Some of that attitude spills over IRL. We always try to find glitches, exploits, cheats and cheese, imbas and so on. We do so in debates and everywhere else.
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