Ellen Pao Is Stepping Down as Reddit’s Chief

Re:Ellen Pao Is Stepping Down as Reddit’s Chief by jerf on Friday July 10, 2015 @06:51PM (#9867436)

I strongly believe causality runs the other way... becoming a default reddit puts you into an Eternal September that no community could possibly survive.

But in the end, the result is the same.

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Re:Ellen Pao Is Stepping Down as Reddit’s Chief by InclinedPlane on Friday July 10, 2015 @06:59PM (#9867476)

AskScience is a default sub, I think, and they've survived alright. Interestingly, AskHistorians asked to not be a default sub-reddit for precisely the reasons you've given.

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Re:Ellen Pao Is Stepping Down as Reddit’s Chief by noir_lord on Friday July 10, 2015 @07:10PM (#9867543)

They have something like 500 moderators though so there is that.

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Re:Ellen Pao Is Stepping Down as Reddit’s Chief by thelamest on Saturday July 11, 2015 @06:14AM (#9869247)

They used to ruthlessly remove everything without an academic source, however interesting - these days I feel more and more fluff is getting through.

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Re:Ellen Pao Is Stepping Down as Reddit’s Chief by azernik on Friday July 10, 2015 @08:20PM (#9867857)

I think you are very correct.

Maybe one of the nice things about UseNet was that you could only be signed up for a forum that you explicitly looked for? That at least forces the trolls to go out of their way to interfere with general-interest sections, not just go after them out of laziness.

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