Allah Snackbar

It’s just another form of racism when white ppl claim “it’s nothing to do with race”, when they have never experienced systematic oppression due to their race. Stop erasing the lived experiences of POC

I don’t follow AFL, but he sounds like a bit of a cunt. I say good on them for taking him down a notch in a way that is both effective and non-violent. I mean what are they going to do, arrest or ban members of the crowd for booing?

No, it’s not the 'mob’ that has forced her out, but the members of the board who are seeing users jump ship to alternatives like Voat, which has them worried. This is what she means by ‘the board asked me to demonstrate higher user growth in the next six months than I believe I can deliver’. Pao’s big mistake wasn’t molding the place into her own vision and taking a dump on the userbase, since all they can do is petition and write comments. Petitions don’t do anything, more comments only mean more page views, and most of them will settle down after a day or two anyway. Her big mistake was attempting to fuck around with the employees/moderators - the ones who are actually able to do something drastic, like shut down important sections of the site. The only regrettable outcome of this is that Reddit’s existence will now be prolonged, and they will continue to enact the same kind of policies Pao has - except for taking on their own goons.