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Re:Details Emerge About Victoria Taylor’s Dismissal at Reddit by ceejayoz on Monday July 13, 2015 @04:47PM (#9880949)
Frankly, if the mod teams were this disrupted by a single employee's departure, that's at least partially their own fault.

If she'd been hit by a bus or she'd had a personal/family emergency (hell, upcoming AMAs would've been potentially problematic even if her laptop just got stolen), they'd have been just as fucked - and no one to whine at.

They failed miserably at disaster planning. They got very lucky they could shove the blame off on someone else.

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Re:Details Emerge About Victoria Taylor’s Dismissal at Reddit by learc83 on Monday July 13, 2015 @05:10PM (#9881115)
They're unpaid volunteers, I don't know that anyone expects them to spend a lot of time on contingency planning.
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Re:Details Emerge About Victoria Taylor’s Dismissal at Reddit by ceejayoz on Monday July 13, 2015 @07:33PM (#9881859)
They cared enough to throw a giant temper tantrum, they could've cared enough to have a Google Doc with the contact info of upcoming AMA participants. I really don't have much sympathy for them on this one.
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