Poll: Anyone following the meltdown on Reddit?

/r/yes/no/meh

  • /r/like

    Votes: 23 20.4%

  • /r/dislike

    Votes: 9 8.0%

  • /r/meh

    Votes: 81 71.7%
  • Total voters
    113
A lot of drama that will probably blow over in a few days. It's interesting that all of this has come out and nether party involved in the incident have come out with a statement; or is that just me?
 
Moses said:
Is this a result of lots of white knights because she's a woman?
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Apparently it's because she worked quite closely with a lot of moderators to organise "ask me anything" sessions, essentially crowd-interviews with well-known people which the users have requested. She was fired abruptly which meant that a lot of moderators who had organised AMAs were left in the lurch, and that combined with apparently poor relations between mods and admins mean the mods are kicking up a fuss at how the admins essentially ignore the requests of volunteer moderators who do most of the grunt work of running the subreddits.
 
It is quite an interesting development, considering the size of the community, but this and the seemingly inconsistent closure of various subreddits a few weeks ago suggests things really need to change at the top (the CEO didn't even know how to post a picture on her own site). Getting rid of Victoria only really affects IAmA but the anti-establishment movement appears to be growing.

The layout isn't really that difficult to comprehend.
 
I like Reddit, I frequent it often along with OCUK, I mainly just browse in my areas of interest, or the main page to see what is popular.

I would often see AMA's and would see that Victoria was mentioned in all of them as helping out, not knowing who Victoria was or anything, I still thought they seemed to be doing a good job.
 
OhEsEcks said:
No it's not. It's still used by nearly all dedicated email clients and web based email, including gmail. As well as multiple forum software. Slashdot. Hackernews. In commenting software that appears on most blogs and websites (such as disqus).
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End of the day different styles work different for different people but while it works ok for me when dealing with a small number of contributors i.e. emails I personally find the implementation on sites like reddit, thinkbroadband, etc. horridly dated and inefficient compared to the alternatives - fortunately on sites like TB you have a choice.
 
Chairman Pao flexing her lawyer muscles again. Recently (last year or two) i have seen reddit go down hill. Now if you look at the default frontpage without customizations it is full with feminists posts and fitness posts. From /r/twoxchromsomes and /r/fitness.

Reddit is lucky that there are not websites that can handle that amount of traffic that would take over from where reddit left off. But they are being developed and will be there soon.
 
ci_newman said:
Oh dear, where will OcUKers go now to find their animated GIFs :p
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Never fear, r/gifs in not affected since no AMAs take place via there.

A lot of my subbed subs are currently dark in "protest" of Victoria's sacking though. I wanted my dose of content dammit!
 
randal said:
Yep, and loving every minute of it. This has been coming for a while, and Victoria's dismissal has been the perfect catalyst. Let it burn in it's current form, get that vacuous quasi-feminista gold digger Pao out and start to rebuild.
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sounds like reddit is mumsnet for nerds :)
 
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