Raudskeggr

You know, I was suspicious of Pao from the get-go, because there were far too many shady rumors and allegations surrounding her, as well as the controversy with her former employer/married lover.

But I chose to keep as optimistic as possible; and maybe Reddit is not yet starting its downward spiral of circling the drain, but I don't think Pao is a good choice of leadership for the company.

Someone who fired an employee for having cancer is a failure both as a leader and as a human being. Reddit users will not trust or respect someone who they know only gives a fuck about themselves. They'll only be open to someone who demonstrates that they care as much about Reddit as the users do.

And most signs point towards the Idea that Pao just wants to make her bucks and keep things going until she can lave to work for a company that can afford to pay her more.

For one thing, Nobody who knows her seems to have good things to say about her. Not on a personal level. All but a small minority of the reddit community has intensely negative feeling for her, and the main reason that handful liked her was mostly because the others did not; and this firing of a universally-liked employee has probably turned that handful around too.

It's a big mistake for the company's leadership to try and turn reddit into something it's not. Paid AMAs? Video amas? I've heard these rumors, and twice now people close to Reddit have said similar. Sponsorship and ads, sure; but you have to do it in a way that doesn't fundamentally compromise what Reddit is, and what function it serves to its users.

Furthermore, the complete neglect and disregard for the users, and especially the moderators of key subreddits, demonstrates a lack of understanding by Pao and co., that while Reddit may be a privately held company owned by a handful of shareholders, They only own the building and the hardware; Reddit has always been really owned and run by the user base. And if they push the wrong buttons, the users will move somewhere else where they can get the experience they want--and if that place doesn't exist, they'll make it.

A friend of mine, in Denmark, is a pedagogue who works with young kids. At several Denmark schools, male staff aren't permitted to bet left alone with the kids, without a female's "supervision".

Where did we get this notion that men who like kids must like kids? Statistically you're more likely to see kids sexually abused by females anyway.... Largely because most people caring for young children are.

This might sound odd, but that bears an interesting resemblance to a form of Buddhist meditation where a person builds an incredibly detailed image in their head, little bit by little bit and holds it all there. Then when that is done, the next step is to deconstruct it and never let it enter their minds again.

It's an exercise in applied mindfulness that then drives home the lesson of impermanence.

even then. lol.

Well the communist state media was worse at the time. Now It's all pretty much rubbish. :(

Next time that happens, can her out on it. Publicly. She'll be embarrassed, and forced to backpedal. You can't openly admit being a bigot, after all.

But at least then, that behaviour is challenged. Attitudes like this are allowed to continue because people are afraid to confront them.