Unloading all of the hard work on a black employee who has to deal with some a board filled with problematic white people (The Reddit board) seems kinda bad? Resigning is good though.
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Alexis Ohanian resigns from the Reddit board in protest of the site's direction, vows to push for a black candidate to replace him
- Thread starter RastaMentality
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Unloading all of the hard work on a black employee who has to deal with some a board filled with problematic white people (The Reddit board) seems kinda bad? Resigning is good though.
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if they don't listen to him now, why would they listen to a black person
Because Alexis fucked himself over a long while ago. And given the recent (and upcoming) pressure by largué subreddit communities, I hope that things begin to change.
This is only good if it results in the changes stated.
And it's not useful if it gets a "token" black or brown or whatever person - especially if that person is just another technolibertarian that values consequence-less "free speech" more than anything else. Reddit and all the sites/content aggregators/commenting networks/"local news syndication" type sites have to have moderation and filtering that seeks to stop racism and disinformation, and value it above "engagement".
The instigators and crazies will never be gone, and their tactics will change as water flows. But if they don't get to exist on real platforms and they're trapped in 99chan on some dude's Tor-powered Raspberry Pi cluster on a houseboat, or they're buried on some non-functional backwater website that barely works a la some Geocities/Xoom forum in 2002, the world would be better off.
And it's not useful if it gets a "token" black or brown or whatever person - especially if that person is just another technolibertarian that values consequence-less "free speech" more than anything else. Reddit and all the sites/content aggregators/commenting networks/"local news syndication" type sites have to have moderation and filtering that seeks to stop racism and disinformation, and value it above "engagement".
The instigators and crazies will never be gone, and their tactics will change as water flows. But if they don't get to exist on real platforms and they're trapped in 99chan on some dude's Tor-powered Raspberry Pi cluster on a houseboat, or they're buried on some non-functional backwater website that barely works a la some Geocities/Xoom forum in 2002, the world would be better off.
Hmm. Not sure if backing off and letting someone more suited take his position makes sense or if he should have tried to change things from the inside.
So he should have stayed on and been one of the "woke allies?"
Reddit needs to financially compensate moderators and have them be more public facing. Anonymous members of the community moderating for free hasn't been working. Power moderators that moderate dozens of right-leaning boards bully their way into left-leaning boards and oust the original moderating teams, it's a common tactic.
A small board grows, needs help, a prominent mod offers to help, the small board user, maybe not steeped in reddit-insider politics see that they moderate boards with hundreds of thousands and think, "hey, this person will help!" Six months later that small person who lives in that city or participates in that community the board is focused around quits because they're driven out, and now the alt-right control another subreddit.
Before y'all go on about how reddit is trash and needs to be burned, many subreddits know of these tactics and can resist them, and there are subreddits that would ban many posters here for their comments, so don't be so quick to cast stones, Era doesn't have a monopoly on being a progressive and inclusive community.
Maybe I just haven't followed Reddit's higher ups that closely, but isn't he the one that tried to push for change vs the CEO who's more libertarian about it?
Can anyone explain what he did? I don't know the person but I'm interested to hear.
I dunno. Feels like Ellen Pao 2.0. Where the user base revolts and places all the blame on the minority so he can come back and play hero.
Alexis is responsible for enabling racist and hateful content to exist on Reddit, and was responsible for basically crippling Ellen Pao when she became the temp CEO.
the only explanation I can see for this is that
now if he can convince leadership to shitcan huffman then he could redeem himself
now if he can convince leadership to shitcan huffman then he could redeem himself
T_D doesnt exist. They all moved to their own website. All that's left is a husk. They did nothing, took their gains, and now have their own platform. Reddit enabled that
Now most T_D posters are in many other subs, poisoning them with their bad faith beliefs.
I mean Ellen Pao was going to and they got her kicked right out.
I'm expecting them to bring in someone people might want. and frankly they need to bring back their original firings really fucking ruined the site with it.
The Donald is basically a corpse now, because the mods somehow fucked up the chance the admins gave them to still exist they stopped the T_D to be able to make new posts making it worthless, the problem is that other subs like Conservative still aren't banned where most of the users moved on
It's his own self-acknowledgement that he is not capable of doing the type of work that needs to be done as executive chairman, and that there are many with industry experience that are.