Well, I just added the 11th like to your post, so now you’re currently tied. I liked your post because of the intelligent, well-informed nuance you added to the conversation for most of your post until your unfortunate last paragraph (quoted above) which I think contains obvious straw man arguments.
I also liked the previous post you responded to because I tend to agree with the overall frustration with Reddit perhaps cowing to a vicious segment of Reddit and I didn’t really take the content too literally beyond that. I didn’t think the true intentions behind @dragonchild12’s post was to say that literally every, single person who was against Pao was a filthy human. I could see why someone might see it that way, but I just didn’t take it literally that way myself.
The truth of the matter, we really don’t know a lot of the facts, however, the infantile gloating from GG, etc. over Pao’s resignation is annoying and I agree with the sentiment that most of those who despised her at Reddit and now celebrate her resignation were piles of steamy shits that were/are helping to destroy discourse at Reddit overall.
this near-wholesale reddit rebellion
Only a small percentage of Reddit users, actually. They were very vociferous and disruptive in order to acquire a lot of media attention that made it only appear they were in “near-wholesale” numbers at Reddit.
Kind of like how AMAs tend to go…
There are 36 million user accounts. The rebellion wasn’t even a tiny fraction of that even if one is to consider only active users.
Go look at the upvote numbers at Reddit. They were only in the thousands, not in the hundreds of thousands or even just the mere tens of thousands. A “near-wholesale” revolt should have been in the tens of millions or at least in the millions, or perhaps the hundreds of thousands or even maybe tens of thousands.
And, if the third party petition demanding that Pao be fired and had over 100,000 “votes” wasn’t loaded up with repeat voters, then why didn’t any of the Reddit downvotes and upvotes number anywhere close to that range?
Because, like I said, it was just a small percentage of Redditors overall. Loud, vocal and disruptive? Yes. A “near-wholesale” revolt? No.
The brigading loud mouths shouted down a lot of average Reddit users like ususal. That’s not to say there weren’t people like you that joined in and had good intentions, but I honestly think people like you were in the minority of those upvote/downvote brigades and seething hatred shown for Pao.
I respect and agree with some of your opinions in your post when it comes to the mod/admin issues, but those problems devolved before Pao got there for the most part. I think she was used as a punching bag overall and this “rebellion” may actually divert from a lot of severe problems that go far beyond mod/admin issues and how they interrelate and communicate with one another.
You do a good job of bashing Pao (and I agree with some of what you said), but she has another side to the story:
Reddit chief Ellen Pao resigns after receiving ‘sickening’ abuse from users
