[Dusty]

   
   
   

[cibo]

Looks like Reddit management didn't learn anything from the ordeal. I figured this would happen actually since they had a corporate culture shift took place.
I hope all the non-sjw users finally realize that reddit hates them and should just leave.

Quote:

Steve Huffman, a co-founder of the San Francisco-based online forum, said Saturday in an Ask Me Anything on Reddit that Pao was “not used as a scapegoat” and he planned to stick with some of her most unpopular decisions, such as deleting malicious threads including one called “fatpeoplehate” and firing Victoria Taylor, who coordinated the AskMeAnything question-and-answer sessions. Taylor’s firing on July 2 led to online protests the next day.
The company won’t tolerate forums that promote bullying and threats against other users, and there were valid reasons for Taylor’s dismissal, Huffman said.
“I know she was well-loved by many moderators, and I’m very sorry at how everything played out. It could have been handled much better,” Huffman wrote. “However, she was let go for specific reasons, which I obviously will not share, and we will stand by that decision.”

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2...r-her-exit

[Handsome Creepy Eel]

Amazing tweets up there! That "asking for a friend" killed me

[Dusty]

(07-12-2015 04:49 PM)Handsome Creepy Eel Wrote:  

Amazing tweets up there! That "asking for a friend" killed me

   

[Silver_Tube]

The new leaders of the site have said some stuff that suggests they will kill the communities that offend them. People are counting down to a bunch of their favorites going down. I hope redpill survives.

[Private Man]

(07-14-2015 08:45 PM)Silver_Tube Wrote:  

The new leaders of the site have said some stuff that suggests they will kill the communities that offend them. People are counting down to a bunch of their favorites going down. I hope redpill survives.

Redpill has a back up plan with a private server. It's been in the works for months.

[Rhyme or Reason]

(07-14-2015 08:45 PM)Silver_Tube Wrote:  

The new leaders of the site have said some stuff that suggests they will kill the communities that offend them. People are counting down to a bunch of their favorites going down. I hope redpill survives.

I don't. It's high time TRP gets banned so that it will no longer be hosted on a hostile site. By this point it's been infested with SJW entryists and the terminally unfuckable justice league...hence why you get posts redefining alpha as whatever they want it to be...among other bullshit.

[dads]

Huh. I haven't paid much attention to any of this, and I more or less disliked the "caricature" of Ellen Pao (never followed the Gamergate stuff), but if this is true... Huh.

Quote:

AYYYYYY LMAO

How’s everyone doing? This is AWESOME!

There’s something I neglected to tell you all this time (“executive privilege”), but I’m declassifying a lot of things these days. Back around the time of the /r/creepshots[1]debacle, I wrote to /u/spez[2] for advice. I had met him shortly after I had taken the job, and found him to be a great guy. Back in the day when reddit was small, the areas he oversaw were engineering, product, and the business aspects - those are the same things I tend to focus on in a company (each CEO has certain areas of natural focus, and hires others to oversee the rest). As a result, we were able to connect really well and have a lot of great conversations - talking to him was really valuable.

Well, when things were heating around the /r/creepshots[3]thing and people were calling for its banning, I wrote to him to ask for advice. The very interesting thing he wrote back was “back when I was running things, if there was anything racist, sexist, or homophobic I’d ban it right away. I don’t think there’s a place for such things on reddit. Of course, now that reddit is much bigger, I understand if maybe things are different.”

I’ve always remembered that email when I read the occasional posting here where people say “the founders of reddit intended this to be a place for free speech.” Human minds love originalism, e.g. “we’re in trouble, so surely if we go back to the original intentions, we can make things good again.” Sorry to tell you guys but NO, that wasn’t their intention at all ever. Sucks to be you, /r/coontown[4] - I hope you enjoy voat!

The free speech policy was something I formalized because it seemed like the wiser course at the time. It’s worth stating that in that era, we were talking about whether it was ok for people to post creepy pictures of women taken legally in public. That’s shitty, but it’s a far cry from the extremes of hate that some parts of the site host today. It seemed that allowing creepers to post (anonymized) pictures of women taken in public, in a relatively small subreddit that never showed up on the front page, was a small price to pay for making it clear that we were a place welcoming of all opinions and discourse.

Having made that decision - much of reddit’s current condition is on me. I didn’t anticipate what (some) redditors would decide to do with freedom. reddit has become a lot bigger - yes, a lot better - AND a lot worse. I have to take responsibility.

But... the most delicious part of this is that on at least two separate occasions, the board pressed /u/ekjp[5] to outright ban ALL the hate subreddits in a sweeping purge. She resisted, knowing the community, claiming it would be a shitshow. Ellen isn’t some “evil, manipulative, out-of-touch incompetent she-devil” as was often depicted. She was approved by the board and recommended by me because when I left, she was the only technology executive anywhere who had the chops and experience to manage a startup of this size, AND who understood what reddit was all about. As we can see from her post-resignation activity[6] , she knows perfectly well how to fit in with the reddit community and is a normal, funny person - just like in real life - she simply didn’t sit on reddit all day because she was busy with her day job.

Ellen was more or less inclined to continue upholding my free-speech policies. /r/fatpeoplehate[7] was banned for inciting off-site harassment, not discussing fat-shaming. What all the white-power racist-sexist neckbeards don’t understand is that with her at the head of the company, the company would be immune to accusations of promoting sexism and racism: she is literally Silicon Valley’s #1 Feminist Hero, so any “SJWs” would have a hard time attacking the company for intentionally creating a bastion (heh) of sexist/racist content. She probably would have tolerated your existence so long as you didn’t cause any problems - I know that her long-term strategies were to find ways to surface and publicize reddit’s good parts - allowing the bad parts to exist but keeping them out of the spotlight. It would have been very principled - the CEO of reddit, who once sued her previous employer for sexual discrimination, upholds free speech and tolerates the ugly side of humanity because it is so important to maintaining a platform for open discourse. It would have been unassailable.

Well, now she’s gone (you did it reddit!), and /u/spez[8] has the moral authority as a co-founder to move ahead with the purge. We tried to let you govern yourselves and you failed, so now The Man is going to set some Rules. Admittedly, I can’t say I’m terribly upset.

I guess it would be easier to trash this and say it's nonsense or something. I do believe that human beings are pretty complex creatures, and I can't imagine that Ellen Pao did anything positive to endear herself to the public that ate her alive. Is this a case of those who are against SJW's using the SJW's tactics against their own?

Regardless, if this is true, Ellen Pao definitely becomes a very interesting person to me. Extremely intelligent if you ask me, to be able to think like this. It does seem like (if it is true) she might've been a step or 10 too far ahead of the rest of the pack. Oh well. Let reddit die a peaceful death. Good luck to Ellen Pao in her future endeavors.

[dog]

(07-15-2015 07:20 AM)dads Wrote:  

Huh. I haven't paid much attention to any of this, and I more or less disliked the "caricature" of Ellen Pao (never followed the Gamergate stuff), but if this is true... Huh.

Quote:

AYYYYYY LMAO
[snip]

Dads do you have a source for that quote? It reeks of SJW shilling and revisionism. We're supposed to believe that someone who set up this policy is the champion of free speech?

http://www.redditblog.com/2015/05/promot...eople.html

Quote:

TL;DR: We are unhappy with harassing behavior on reddit; we have survey data that show our users are, too. So we’ve improved our practices to better curb harassment of individuals on reddit.

[Blaster]

That post really should not be surprising. And there aren't any details you couldn't decide on your own. What I have heard is that fat people hate was banned for pissing off imgur, who is cozy with Reddit. Nothing new on that front. Nor should it really surprise anyone that Ellen Pao is not some kind of tyrant, but that the sjw infection at Reddit goes much deeper. Nevertheless, the fph situation as well as the firing one were both handled quite poorly, and that is still on her.

[dads]

(07-15-2015 07:32 AM)dog Wrote:  

(07-15-2015 07:20 AM)dads Wrote:  

Huh. I haven't paid much attention to any of this, and I more or less disliked the "caricature" of Ellen Pao (never followed the Gamergate stuff), but if this is true... Huh.

Quote:

AYYYYYY LMAO
[snip]

Dads do you have a source for that quote? It reeks of SJW shilling and revisionism. We're supposed to believe that someone who set up this policy is the champion of free speech?

http://www.redditblog.com/2015/05/promot...eople.html

Quote:

TL;DR: We are unhappy with harassing behavior on reddit; we have survey data that show our users are, too. So we’ve improved our practices to better curb harassment of individuals on reddit.

Sorry about that: Original reddit post from Yishan Wong.

[dog]

(07-15-2015 08:10 AM)dads Wrote:  

(07-15-2015 07:32 AM)dog Wrote:  

(07-15-2015 07:20 AM)dads Wrote:  

Huh. I haven't paid much attention to any of this, and I more or less disliked the "caricature" of Ellen Pao (never followed the Gamergate stuff), but if this is true... Huh.

Quote:

AYYYYYY LMAO
[snip]

Dads do you have a source for that quote? It reeks of SJW shilling and revisionism. We're supposed to believe that someone who set up this policy is the champion of free speech?

http://www.redditblog.com/2015/05/promot...eople.html

Quote:

TL;DR: We are unhappy with harassing behavior on reddit; we have survey data that show our users are, too. So we’ve improved our practices to better curb harassment of individuals on reddit.

Sorry about that: Original reddit post from Yishan Wong.

Well that certainly makes things a lot more interesting. Yishan Wong is one authority on the subject matter I'd believe. So apparently Pao was the "moderate" and the board is pushing for full SJWism on reddit.

In that case, bring it on. The sooner that reddit converts to a full-blown "safe space" the better. The beta cucks in Silicon Valley are complicit in destroying freedom online and in real life, it would be nice for them to stand behind their actions for once instead of doing it in the shadows.

[Simeon_Strangelight]

(07-15-2015 07:20 AM)dads Wrote:  

Regardless, if this is true, Ellen Pao definitely becomes a very interesting person to me. Extremely intelligent if you ask me, to be able to think like this. It does seem like (if it is true) she might've been a step or 10 too far ahead of the rest of the pack. Oh well. Let reddit die a peaceful death. Good luck to Ellen Pao in her future endeavors.

Seriously Dads?



Haven't read bigger bullshit except directly on Jezebel.

Quote:

Ellen was more or less inclined to continue upholding my free-speech policies. /r/fatpeoplehate was banned for inciting off-site harassment, not discussing fat-shaming. What all the white-power racist-sexist neckbeards don't understand is that with her at the head of the company, the company would be immune to accusations of promoting sexism and racism: she is literally Silicon Valley's #1 Feminist Hero, so any "SJWs" would have a hard time attacking the company for intentionally creating a bastion (heh) of sexist/racist content. She probably would have tolerated your existence so long as you didn't cause any problems - I know that her long-term strategies were to find ways to surface and publicize reddit's good parts - allowing the bad parts to exist but keeping them out of the spotlight. It would have been very principled - the CEO of reddit, who once sued her previous employer for sexual discrimination, upholds free speech and tolerates the ugly side of humanity because it is so important to maintaining a platform for open discourse. It would have been unassailable.
Well, now she's gone (you did it reddit!), and /u/spez has the moral authority as a co-founder to move ahead with the purge. We tried to let you govern yourselves and you failed, so now The Man is going to set some Rules. Admittedly, I can't say I'm terribly upset.
http://i.imgur.com/BBvdWuv.gif
permalinkembedsaveparentreportgive goldreply
[–]PikachuSnowman 1 point 28 minutes ago
Did you just call your users neckbeards?
permalinkembedsaveparentreportgive goldreply
[–]LifeInvader04 1 point 34 minutes ago
Haha if you fucking SJWs continue down this road you'll be fucked because you'll be out of jobs. There will always be a reddit like exchange platform. The question here is if you niggers want to keep your jobs. If you do, you will do what the community asks. If you go against your user base, it will be your demise. For us, it's completely irrelevant whether we hang around on reddit or voat or whatever the name is.
permalinkembedsaveparentreportgive goldreply
[–]Kapplar 1 point 38 minutes ago
Wonder how many redditors are currently trying to sanitise their history of all the Ellen hate so they can pick their pitchfork back up.

First of all I have no doubt that the Reddit founders did not really believe in absolute free speech. Total free speech cannot exist, otherwise you would have Nazi pedo-porn threads also on a forum like here within a week. But it depends what the guidelines of the forum are and Reddit if it wants to grow should have an even broader scope than for example RVF, since it wants to appeal to everybody.

Quote:

The very interesting thing he wrote back was "back when I was running things, if there was anything racist, sexist, or homophobic I'd ban it right away. I don't think there's a place for such things on reddit.

Now all those statements against sexist statements. The Red Pill would fit their definitions of sexism, homophobia or even racism since we allow statements here that there are genetic differences between races (that according to the mainstream is racism already - even if we just claim that there are genetic differences between Scots, Irish or Italians).

Of course we knew that the management team and board were a bunch of SJW-mainstream-shitlords.

But Dads - Ellen Pao is an intelligent and interesting person to you? Are you working for Reddit?

Charmain Pao did the following:

+ sued her former employer for not getting promoted (I wish I could also sue all my former employers for not making me VP, partner or CEO within a few years, but I am no woman and I don't live in fairyland)
+ married a gay man who has a track record of fraud and questionable law suits himself (very red flag)
+ slept with multiple executives at her company which likely impacted her career as well
+ made multiple SJW statements which of course SJWs like Yishan Wang construct as glorious and wonderful as she is the CHAMPION AGAINST SEXISM IN STEM!!!
+ her former employer claimed that she was incompetent and her behavior - even her posting behavior on Reddit showed that she did not have much of a technical knowledge at all

All those things combined make it appear to me as if the SJW board wanted to purge Reddit of everything that upsets the mainstream. Soon The RedPill will go as well or be completely taken over by the Blue Pill Borg there.

Quote:

the CEO of reddit, who once sued her previous employer for sexual discrimination, upholds free speech and tolerates the ugly side of humanity because it is so important to maintaining a platform for open discourse. It would have been unassailable.

Chairman Pao to the rescue!



Whether she is highly intelligent or not is irrelevant - it does not even matter if the board wanted a greater purge than she did. No one should praise cultural commissars here.

[samsamsam]

It just disgusts me that men fucked this zombie. Supposedly, very smart men.

[The Beast1]

I'm curious if this is a harbinger of things to come.

Could we see some full retard feminist trash get elected in the future that causes an open revolt in the streets? Obviously an "online user revolt" isn't the same thing as revolt in the streets but seriously.

Leaving this here as well:
https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/c...pm/ct3eflt

Quote:

Neither Alexis nor I created reddit to be a bastion of free speech, but rather as a place where open and honest discussion can happen[...]
When asked what the Founding Fathers would have thought of reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/c...pm/ct3eflt
"A bastion of free speech on the World Wide Web? I bet they would like it[...]" - Alexis Ohanian Forbes
Alexis certainly seemed to think of reddit as a 'bastion of free speech' at one point in time.

[Alfa]

According to former executive of reddit, pao was 'framed.' Looks like it's possible she took the heat for someone else's decisions.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/bits/201...?referrer=

[CJ_W]

(07-15-2015 11:28 AM)Alfa Wrote:  

According to former executive of reddit, pao was 'framed.' Looks like it's possible she took the heat for someone else's decisions.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/bits/201...?referrer=

She was hired over a year ago, that's a LONG time to "frame" someone.

[EuphoricWizard]

A site wide purge is likely to go down soon in the new CEOs Ama in a few minutes. He hates all hate subs (Non SJW) so I expect Red Pill to go down in flames. Those guys are gonna be going somewhere. Might need to upgrade your servers here.

[Barron]

Steve Huffman

[Easy_C]

I know it's not intended, but your profile signature perfectly describes that picture.

[Dusty]

Punchable face.

[DarkTriad]

(07-03-2015 04:00 PM)MrLemon Wrote:  

(07-03-2015 03:48 PM)trian1 Wrote:  

(07-03-2015 11:03 AM)Samseau Wrote:  

Everyone knew Reddit peaked: http://www.rooshvforum.network/thread-48196.html

Except for this guy: http://www.rooshvforum.network/thread-48196-...pid1041663

I think she is going to prove to be a devastating hire.

Any startup or tech company that hires an angry woman/lesbian to be a top manager, is going to collapse, and the investors will see their money burn, burn, burn.

You have to understand what's going on deep in Pao's mind. She's super passive-aggressive, angry and vengeful in her heart, but she puts a pretty, fake-passive face on, so stupid men (especially powerful and rich men, for some reason) fall for it.

I'm personally have nothing against them...but has anyone ever looked at her man jaw and wondered if she's actually trans? Her husband was gay before her....none of this sounds suspicious to anybody? Combined with her strident hatred towards anyone critiquing those that are different in any way...

[HighSpeed_LowDrag]

Ellen Pao editoral in the Washington Post this morning: Link

Quote:

I have just endured one of the largest trolling attacks in history. And I have just been blessed with the most astonishing human responses to that attack.

What happened to me while head of the popular online forum Reddit for the past eight months is important to consider as we confront the ways in which the Internet is evolving. Here’s why:

The Internet started as a bastion for free expression. It encouraged broad engagement and a diversity of ideas. Over time, however, that openness has enabled the harassment of people for their views, experiences, appearances or demographic backgrounds. Balancing free expression with privacy and the protection of participants has always been a challenge for open-content platforms on the Internet. But that balancing act is getting harder. The trolls are winning.

Fully 40 percent of online users have experienced bullying, harassment and intimidation, according to Pew Research. Some 70 percent of users between age 18 and 24 say they’ve been the target of harassers. Not surprisingly, women and minorities have it worst. We were naive in our initial expectations for the Internet, an early Internet pioneer told me recently. We focused on the huge opportunity for positive interaction and information sharing. We did not understand how people could use it to harm others.

The foundations of the Internet were laid on free expression, but the founders just did not understand how effective their creation would be for the coordination and amplification of harassing behavior. Or that the users who were the biggest bullies would be rewarded with attention for their behavior. Or that young people would come to see this bullying as the norm — as something to emulate in an effort to one-up each other. As the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which was founded to help protect Internet civil liberties, concluded this year: “The sad irony is that online harassers misuse the fundamental strength of the Internet as a powerful communication medium to magnify and co-ordinate their actions and effectively silence and intimidate others.”

Reddit is the Internet, and it exhibits all the good, the bad and the ugly of the Internet. It has been fighting this harassment in the trenches. In February, we committed to removing revenge porn from our site, and others followed our lead. In May, the company banned harassment of individuals from the site. Last month, we took down sections of the site that drew repeat harassers. Then, after making these policy changes to prevent and ban harassment, I, along with several colleagues, was targeted with harassing messages, attempts to post my private information online and death threats. These were attempts to demean, shame and scare us into silence.

Undeterred, we took steps to prevent bad behavior in an incremental and thoughtful fashion. We doubled the size of our community-management team. We brought in two experienced managers to improve our operations, training and overall leadership. We added to our engineering team. We hired a product manager to help develop tools to help our volunteer moderators.

This isn’t an easy problem to solve. To understand the challenges facing today’s Internet content platforms, layer onto that original balancing act a desire to grow audience and generate revenue. A large portion of the Internet audience enjoys edgy content and the behavior of the more extreme users; it wants to see the bad with the good, so it becomes harder to get rid of the ugly. But to attract more mainstream audiences and bring in the big-budget advertisers, you must hide or remove the ugly.

Expecting Internet platforms to eliminate hate and harassment is likely to disappoint. As the number of users climbs, community management becomes ever more difficult. If mistakes are made 0.01 percent of the time, that could mean tens of thousands of mistakes. And for a community looking for clear, evenly applied rules, mistakes are frustrating. They lead to a lack of trust. Turning to automation to enforce standards leads to a lack of human contact and understanding. No one has figured out the best place to draw the line between bad and ugly — or whether that line can support a viable business model.

So it’s left to all of us to figure it out, to call out abuse when we see it. As the trolls on Reddit grew louder and more harassing in recent weeks, another group of users became more vocal. First a few sent positive messages. Then a few more. Soon, I was receiving hundreds of messages a day, and at one point thousands. These messages were thoughtful, well-written and heartfelt, in stark contrast to the trolling messages, which were usually made up of little more than four-letter words. Many shared their own stories of harassment and thanked us for our stance.

The writers of these messages often said they could not imagine the hate I was experiencing. Most apologized for the trolls’ behavior. And some apologized for standing on the sidelines. “I didn’t do anything, and that is why I am sorry,” one user wrote. “I stayed indifferent. I didn’t attack nor defend. I am sorry for my inaction. You are a human. And no one needs to be treated like you were.” Some apologized for their own trollish behavior and promised they had reformed.

As the threats became really violent, people ended their messages with “stay safe.” Eventually, users started responding on Reddit itself, using accurate information and supportive messages to fight back against the trolls.

In the battle for the Internet, the power of humanity to overcome hate gives me hope. I’m rooting for the humans over the trolls. I know we can win.

[DarkTriad]

(07-10-2015 04:20 PM)samsamsam Wrote:  

CNBC reporting the cunt is resigning.

Score one for the good guys!

[DarkTriad]

(07-15-2015 07:20 AM)dads Wrote:  

Huh. I haven't paid much attention to any of this, and I more or less disliked the "caricature" of Ellen Pao (never followed the Gamergate stuff), but if this is true... Huh.

Quote:

AYYYYYY LMAO

How’s everyone doing? This is AWESOME!

There’s something I neglected to tell you all this time (“executive privilege”), but I’m declassifying a lot of things these days. Back around the time of the /r/creepshots[1]debacle, I wrote to /u/spez[2] for advice. I had met him shortly after I had taken the job, and found him to be a great guy. Back in the day when reddit was small, the areas he oversaw were engineering, product, and the business aspects - those are the same things I tend to focus on in a company (each CEO has certain areas of natural focus, and hires others to oversee the rest). As a result, we were able to connect really well and have a lot of great conversations - talking to him was really valuable.

Well, when things were heating around the /r/creepshots[3]thing and people were calling for its banning, I wrote to him to ask for advice. The very interesting thing he wrote back was “back when I was running things, if there was anything racist, sexist, or homophobic I’d ban it right away. I don’t think there’s a place for such things on reddit. Of course, now that reddit is much bigger, I understand if maybe things are different.”

I’ve always remembered that email when I read the occasional posting here where people say “the founders of reddit intended this to be a place for free speech.” Human minds love originalism, e.g. “we’re in trouble, so surely if we go back to the original intentions, we can make things good again.” Sorry to tell you guys but NO, that wasn’t their intention at all ever. Sucks to be you, /r/coontown[4] - I hope you enjoy voat!

The free speech policy was something I formalized because it seemed like the wiser course at the time. It’s worth stating that in that era, we were talking about whether it was ok for people to post creepy pictures of women taken legally in public. That’s shitty, but it’s a far cry from the extremes of hate that some parts of the site host today. It seemed that allowing creepers to post (anonymized) pictures of women taken in public, in a relatively small subreddit that never showed up on the front page, was a small price to pay for making it clear that we were a place welcoming of all opinions and discourse.

Having made that decision - much of reddit’s current condition is on me. I didn’t anticipate what (some) redditors would decide to do with freedom. reddit has become a lot bigger - yes, a lot better - AND a lot worse. I have to take responsibility.

But... the most delicious part of this is that on at least two separate occasions, the board pressed /u/ekjp[5] to outright ban ALL the hate subreddits in a sweeping purge. She resisted, knowing the community, claiming it would be a shitshow. Ellen isn’t some “evil, manipulative, out-of-touch incompetent she-devil” as was often depicted. She was approved by the board and recommended by me because when I left, she was the only technology executive anywhere who had the chops and experience to manage a startup of this size, AND who understood what reddit was all about. As we can see from her post-resignation activity[6] , she knows perfectly well how to fit in with the reddit community and is a normal, funny person - just like in real life - she simply didn’t sit on reddit all day because she was busy with her day job.

Ellen was more or less inclined to continue upholding my free-speech policies. /r/fatpeoplehate[7] was banned for inciting off-site harassment, not discussing fat-shaming. What all the white-power racist-sexist neckbeards don’t understand is that with her at the head of the company, the company would be immune to accusations of promoting sexism and racism: she is literally Silicon Valley’s #1 Feminist Hero, so any “SJWs” would have a hard time attacking the company for intentionally creating a bastion (heh) of sexist/racist content. She probably would have tolerated your existence so long as you didn’t cause any problems - I know that her long-term strategies were to find ways to surface and publicize reddit’s good parts - allowing the bad parts to exist but keeping them out of the spotlight. It would have been very principled - the CEO of reddit, who once sued her previous employer for sexual discrimination, upholds free speech and tolerates the ugly side of humanity because it is so important to maintaining a platform for open discourse. It would have been unassailable.

Well, now she’s gone (you did it reddit!), and /u/spez[8] has the moral authority as a co-founder to move ahead with the purge. We tried to let you govern yourselves and you failed, so now The Man is going to set some Rules. Admittedly, I can’t say I’m terribly upset.

I guess it would be easier to trash this and say it's nonsense or something. I do believe that human beings are pretty complex creatures, and I can't imagine that Ellen Pao did anything positive to endear herself to the public that ate her alive. Is this a case of those who are against SJW's using the SJW's tactics against their own?

Regardless, if this is true, Ellen Pao definitely becomes a very interesting person to me. Extremely intelligent if you ask me, to be able to think like this. It does seem like (if it is true) she might've been a step or 10 too far ahead of the rest of the pack. Oh well. Let reddit die a peaceful death. Good luck to Ellen Pao in her future endeavors.

That was likely the plan, but they didn't realize how horrific, dangerous and toxic these people are. Call it "blowback" damage, they believed their own propaganda about how these people were really the victims and just helping educate people, and that they really were a plus and not a minus. She genuinely was a hard shield. The shield was so hard it was made of depleted uranium, highly radioactive, dipped in cyanide, and firmly strapped to their arm. And they're fighting a naval engagement on a pitching deck trying to jump onto another ship. Time to ditch that shield before it drags you down and drowns you or poisons you. And hope the cancer it caused doesn't spread.