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The sad thing is... Ellen Pao did nothing wrong. All she really did was ban /r/FatPeopleHate. Victoria's firing was Kn0thing's doing but everybody threw Ellen under the bus for it. Oh, and she was trying to fight for keeping Reddit as a free-speech platform too.
It's amazing how sheepish the Reddit community truly is when everybody came back to Reddit the moment Pao was forced out.
She really didn't deserve the nickname 'Chairman Pao', especially when Spez was the one who pushed far stricter censorship measures, made ban-evasion a site wide offence and gave moderators so much power to abuse.
On the plus side, it's good to see a Reddit alternative that isn't either dead, a closed-garden like Tildes, or a white supremacist hellhole.
I agree completely. We were just coming off of gamergate, and people were just looking for women to yell at
That plus a healthy dose of racism.
I never understood the Pao hate either. She wasn't in the CEO position long enough to do any substantial damage. And definitely not nearly as much as what /u/spez is doing now which is going to permanently and irrecoverably ruin Reddit.