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A comment on New York Times' Reddit Piece Shows Dangers of Internet Journalism. Parent comment

Re:New York Times' Reddit Piece Shows Dangers of Internet Jo... by toufka on Saturday July 11, 2015 @02:15PM (#9870924)
Further, it might be burying the trigger precisely because the trigger itself (firing of Victoria) runs against the tone of the (new) article. The whole reason reddit went into lockdown mode was because one of their most beloved employees (who happens to be a woman) was fired. The uproar didn't happen because people were generically upset with Ms. Pao, but because they were passionately upset with how she handled the dismissal a person reddit loved.
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Re:New York Times' Reddit Piece Shows Dangers of Internet Jo... by jolux on Saturday July 11, 2015 @03:17PM (#9871165)
Almost no company will say why they fire someone. reddit is not unique in that regard. Personnel retention is a private concern, regardless of how it makes the community feel.
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Re:New York Times' Reddit Piece Shows Dangers of Internet Jo... by makomk on Saturday July 11, 2015 @05:18PM (#9871605)
It's not just that they didn't mention why they fired her, it's that they didn't seem to have any plan in place to handle the work that she did, or indeed enough clue about her job to understand that they even needed one. If I remember correctly, one celebrity literally flew out to New York to do an AMA with her assistance and found when he got there that she'd been fired and it wasn't going ahead, and the admins didn't handle the other future AMAs that were relying on her any better.
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