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Re:New York Times' Reddit Piece Shows Dangers of Internet Jo... by rory096 on Saturday July 11, 2015 @06:29PM (#9871805)
To be clear, it didn't happen in the order you specified. It was more like 2-3-1-4 — Victoria fired, protest, subreddits shut down in protest, Ellen resigns (1 week later) — and it was moderators who took down the subreddits, not reddit admins (Victoria was pretty much uninvolved besides getting fired.)
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Re:New York Times' Reddit Piece Shows Dangers of Internet Jo... by spot on Saturday July 11, 2015 @07:45PM (#9872000)
that doesn't sound right. here's the announcement of 1, over a month ago:

https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/39bpam/remov...

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Re:New York Times' Reddit Piece Shows Dangers of Internet Jo... by rory096 on Saturday July 11, 2015 @08:59PM (#9872167)
Ah, you meant those subreddits. I thought you meant the ones on strike - I think of the /r/fatpeoplehate thing as a separate, prior incident. That's also not really at all Victoria's department; my understanding is that she really only did AMAs. It was just a recent time the community got pissed off at the reddit administration (and therefore Ellen personally, because CEO), so obviously it fed the flames some more once the Victoria trigger happened.
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Re:New York Times' Reddit Piece Shows Dangers of Internet Jo... by makomk on Saturday July 11, 2015 @08:24PM (#9872082)
Victoria wasn't involved in those subreddits being shut down by the admins at all, as far as I'm aware.
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