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wristwatchswisswatch said:
Long story short, the deceased creator of Reddit created the site with free speech in mind, and has even spoken at a school and mentioned this. Since he's been dead, the new CEO, this SJW named Pao, has been managing reddit. Unfortunately, she has little to no experience with any sort of coding or email skills. She quickly decided to ban several subreddits such as r/fatpeoplehate and a few lulzy ones that shat on SJWs. When people called her out on it, she would shadowban them without notice, and then tried to link several PMs to a main thread to try and make a user look bad. Mind you, it's impossible to link private messages to a main thread. They're private. It got so bad that she was shadowbanning people left and right, and even banned the subreddit r/whalewatching. Which was just about whale watching.

EDIT: Her husband is some Billywitchdoctor.com looking ponzi scheme artist who owes around 2.1 or so million dollars to the people he scammed. When Pao was fired from her previous job before reddit, she sued the company for the EXACT amount her husband owed. The courts quickly caught on and ordered her to pay her previous employer abut 1 million usd in legal fees.
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Oh, I remember hearing about some issues with subreddits going down, but didn't realize that it was tied to this stuff.

That... kinda sucks, honestly. I don't care for Reddit but just seeing it slowly die like this is almost kinda depressing.
 
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ThunderCavalier said:
Oh, I remember hearing about some issues with subreddits going down, but didn't realize that it was tied to this stuff.

That... kinda sucks, honestly. I don't care for Reddit but just seeing it slowly die like this is almost kinda depressing.
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Well, reddit copied digg and digg died. Now voat is copying reddit and reddit is dying.

The king is dead. Long live the king.
 
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wristwatchswisswatch said:
Long story short, the deceased creator of Reddit created the site with free speech in mind, and has even spoken at a school and mentioned this. Since he's been dead, the new CEO, this SJW named Pao, has been managing reddit. Unfortunately, she has little to no experience with any sort of coding or email skills. She quickly decided to ban several subreddits such as r/fatpeoplehate and a few lulzy ones that shat on SJWs. When people called her out on it, she would shadowban them without notice, and then tried to link several PMs to a main thread to try and make a user look bad. Mind you, it's impossible to link private messages to a main thread. They're private. It got so bad that she was shadowbanning people left and right, and even banned the subreddit r/whalewatching. Which was just about whale watching.

EDIT: Her husband is some Billywitchdoctor.com looking ponzi scheme artist who owes around 2.1 or so million dollars to the people he scammed. When Pao was fired from her previous job before reddit, she sued the company for the EXACT amount her husband owed. The courts quickly caught on and ordered her to pay her previous employer abut 1 million usd in legal fees.
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This is all true, but additionally I think the "Pao fiasco", to most people, refers to her disastrous gender discrimination lawsuit against Kleiner-Perkins, which was actually for 16 million dollars. She lost.

Her husband, who definitely looks like Billywitchdoctor.com and definitely ran a ponzi scheme is also openly gay which is just sort of hilarious. As a result of his scheme he's on the hook for about 144 million.
 
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Yellow Yam Scam said:
This is all true, but additionally I think the "Pao fiasco", to most people, refers to her disastrous gender discrimination lawsuit against Kleiner-Perkins, which was actually for 16 million dollars. She lost.

Her husband, who definitely looks like Billywitchdoctor.com and definitely ran a ponzi scheme is also openly gay which is just sort of hilarious.
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I know, but the idea was that reddit was willing to hire someone so bad who ended up screwing around with so many subreddits and just not understanding how the site works as their CEO was kinda....a fiasco.

Fun fact, she now owes her previous employer around $1 million in legal fees! They were willing to settle with her out of court but she got greedy as fuck and asked for the same amount her husband owes. Wait fuck I said this in my last last post. I'm drunk.
 
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/r/GamerGhazi confirmed private.

Statement from mods:

"We have gone private in solidarity with the moderators who are protesting the dysfunctional relationship between administrators and moderators. We believe that administrators need to stop leaving moderators in the dark and to be more in touch with the website. Forcing moderators to rely on third party tools to accomplish essential site functions after years of promises can no longer be the status quo."
 
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balcolm said:
I've seen a few mods protest how Reddit prioritizes gimmicks (snooavatars, reddit gold) over actual useful tools such as ways for volunteer mods to talk to paid admin.

But I think you're right, this is just the straw that broke the camel's back.

EDIT: from /pol/ (kek)

There's some circumstantial evidence. The whole thread where the Jackson was called a race-baiter was deleted. Many of the commenters in the thread got shadowbanned. There was also a rumor that Jackson threatened a lawsuit. There's also the fact that the firing happened right after the AMA, and that there's been absolutely no comment or reason given.
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The Rev. Jesse Jackson never had the best rep so dunno why they decided to go nuclear with the AMAs. Feels like Pao truly has no idea on how to manta in a website and Reddit is more a political, PR and legal tool than an actual business.

Of all people, Jesse Jackson was the one that ended killing reddit.
 
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A shame it had to come to this. Reddit was still the best place for a few games due to the fact that the official forums are such godawful train wrecks (I'm looking at you Planetside and World of Tanks), and the alternative, image boards, are even worse for discussions.

Ah well, back to bay 12 for my gaming discussions then.
 
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Strelok said:
A shame it had to come to this. Reddit was still the best place for a few games due to the fact that the official forums are such godawful train wrecks (I'm looking at you Planetside and World of Tanks), and the alternative, image boards, are even worse for discussions.

Ah well, back to bay 12 for my gaming discussions then.
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Honestly, I doubt Reddit as a whole is going to go down, and most topic-specific subreddits have no real skin in the game here.
 
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As usual, the "Revolt" ends with a whimper.

Admins said "sorry, we won't do it again" on /modtalk/

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And most of the default mods quicky fell in line and unblacked out their subs. Back to work, all you unpaid mods who do it for free.

/r/pics, one of the default subreddits that came back after being asked to by the admins is being flooded with black pics and the mods are responding with mass bans.

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