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On July 2, 2015, Reddit began experiencing a series of blackouts as moderators set popular subreddit communities to private, in an event dubbed "AMAgeddon" – a portmanteau of AMA ("ask me anything") and Armageddon. This was done in protest of the recent firing of Victoria Taylor, an administrator who helped organize citizen-led interviews with famous people on the popular "Ask me Anything" subreddit. Organizers of the blackout also expressed resentment about the recent severance of the communication between Reddit and the moderators of subreddits.[1] The blackout intensified on July 3 when former community manager David Croach gave an AMA about being fired. Before deleting his posts, he stated that Ellen Pao dismissed him with one year of health coverage when he had cancer and did not recover quickly enough.[2][3] Following this, a Change.org petition to remove Pao as CEO of Reddit Inc. reached over 200,000 signatures.[4][5][6] Pao posted a response on July 3 as well as an extended version of it on July 6 in which she apologized for bad communication and not delivering on promises. She also apologized on behalf of the other administrators and noted that problems already existed over the past several years.[7][8][9][10] On July 10, Pao resigned as CEO and was replaced by former CEO and co-founder Steve Huffman.[11][12]
- ^ "Reddit in uproar after staff sacking". BBC News. BBC. 3 July 2015. Retrieved 3 July 2015.
About 100 chat sections, or sub-reddits, that together have millions of readers are believed to have been shut. Reddit's only comment about the issue has been to say that it did not talk about 'individual employee matters'. The protests were led by the volunteer moderators of the AMA section, which said in an explanatory posting that they needed Ms Taylor to keep the sub-reddit functioning. Ms Taylor helped organise guests for AMAs and worked to verify that people due to answer questions were who they said they were. There had been no explanation of why she was suddenly sacked, said the administrators.
{{cite web}}: line feed character in|quote=at position 524 (help) - ^ "Reddit: Laute Rufe nach Absetzung von CEO Ellen Pao". 4 July 2015. Retrieved 5 July 2015.
Zwar sind einige Foren wieder entsperrt, trotzdem ist Pao weiterhin Ziel vielerlei Angriffe. Zusätzliches Öl ins Feuer goss ein ehemaliger Community Manager der Online-Community, der angab von der Reddit-Chefin aufgrund seiner Krebserkrankung gefeuert worden zu sein. Zuvor wurde dem an Leukämie erkrankten Mitarbeiter eingeräumt, beim Unternehmen zu verbleiben – allerdings meldete sich Pao nur wenig später und gab ihm zu wissen, dass er aufgrund seiner Erkrankung nicht mehr bei Reddit verbleiben könnte. So zumindest die Behauptung, die wenig später offline ging.
- ^ "Reddit's CEO Allegedly Fired an Employee For Having Cancer and Not Recovering Fast Enough". Retrieved 5 July 2015.
- ^ "More than 200k people have signed a petition calling for Reddit's Ellen Pao to step down". The Washington Post. 6 July 2015. Retrieved 7 July 2015.
- ^ Musil, Steven (5 July 2015). "Petition for Pao resignation from Reddit grows to 130K". Cnet. Retrieved 5 July 2015.
- ^ Malik, Naureen; Jones, Tim (5 July 2015). "Reddit CEO Pao Under Fire as Users Protest Removal of Executive". Bloomberg. Retrieved 5 July 2015.
- ^ Reddit CEO Ellen Pao apologizes: 'We screwed up' By Laurie Segall and Chris Isidore CNN.com July 6, 2015
- ^ Reddit CEO Ellen Pao Issues an Apology for the Direction of the Site by Laura Entis FoxNews.com July 06, 2015
- ^ Jack Linshi. "Ellen Pao: Reddit CEO Apologizes After Petition for Her to Resign". TIME.com.
- ^ Titcomb, James (7 July 2015). "Petition calling for Reddit boss Ellen Pao to resign hits 200,000 as she admits 'we screwed up'". The Telegraph. Retrieved 7 July 2015.
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:0was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Mike, Isaac (10 July 2015). "Ellen Pao Is Stepping Down as Reddit's Chief". The New York Times. The New York Times Company. Retrieved 10 July 2015.