Reddit CEO Resigns Following User Revolt

[Objectable]

Can we just shut reddit down? Any website that allows this bullshit should not be allowed to exist.
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[Jake Martinez]

Can we just shut reddit down? Any website that allows this bullshit should not be allowed to exist.
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You realize that you're posting a meme. Inside that list is /r/feminism - the default Feminism subreddit and a suicide prevention subreddit. Definitely "bullshit" that should not be allowed to exist, eh??

I think it's also worth putting this entire bullshit drama in perspective.

There are 35 million registered reddit user accounts. The sub that is in that photo has 2,000 subscribers and it gets a new post like maybe once every 3-6 days which is usually somewhere between "hurrrrr derp derp" and "where can i find porn?"

Honestly, banning subs like this is actually harmful to reddit. Places like that sub work as "containment" zones for idiots and edgelords. It gives them a tiny little place where they can act out that is far away from where everyone else is hanging out.

Here's the thing that I think most people fail to understand. In real society we don't ban speech we find offensive because we know that's not an effective way of dealing with the situation. Instead what we do is we marginalize it. We push people like the KKK and NAMBLA out of the public square instead of silencing them because we know it's a more effective way to deal with it.

If you ban all of these stupid subs, you're not going to make these people go away or make them stop being shitty. All you're really doing is encouraging them to act out by going to the subs that women frequent and having them act out there.

Don't you think if you could actually change people, like really force them to stop having shitty thoughts, by just telling them to shut up, that we wouldn't have done this eons ago? It just doesn't work that way.

 

[Ricardo Lima]

"Pao's resignation was not a result of the recent controversy, and rather a "mutual decision over a number of weeks"

Yeah Right..... She doesn't even lie good.

They did not quite lie in as much told a very narrow side of it, the ban of certain "harrasing" subreddits and the problems that the service has accumulleted over years was a build up that Pao wasnt exacly charismatic to the community, and was heavy handed and distant sure as hell did not help.

She is like a coach that they brougth to truy to improve and since that did not happen they replaced it when the team was losing the season.That it was losing seasons before that is another thing.