Re:Ellen Pao Is Stepping Down as Reddit’s Chief
by scrollaway on Friday July 10, 2015 @06:55PM
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Yishan was a massively unpopular CEO and both him and his decisions were strongly disliked. I'm sure he received his fair share of death threats, because internet, but there were also two points to keep in mind for his time as CEO:
- He wasn't in the middle of a bunch of massively controversial fraud/discrimination lawsuits and other issues
- Reddit's administration wasn't a damn soap opera at the time, so people didn't care as much.
PS: You don't need to be a woman to receive death threats. It's not an exclusivity. People are assholes, like I said. I've worked long enough in the video game industry to know this as a fact. Unfortunately, America has this very weird narrative about women which only serves to reinforce the stereotypes they claim to fight. And since it's past 1AM in Europe, we're seeing this narrative dominate the comments... it's pretty sad.
- He wasn't in the middle of a bunch of massively controversial fraud/discrimination lawsuits and other issues
- Reddit's administration wasn't a damn soap opera at the time, so people didn't care as much.
PS: You don't need to be a woman to receive death threats. It's not an exclusivity. People are assholes, like I said. I've worked long enough in the video game industry to know this as a fact. Unfortunately, America has this very weird narrative about women which only serves to reinforce the stereotypes they claim to fight. And since it's past 1AM in Europe, we're seeing this narrative dominate the comments... it's pretty sad.