Reddit’s Terrorists Have Won: Ellen Pao and the Failure to Rebrand Web 2.0

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/07/11/reddit-s-terrorists-have-won-ellen-pao-and-the-failure-to-rebrand-web-2-0.html

by hullo • 11 years ago

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hedgew• 11 years ago

The title itself labels Reddit users as terrorists (seems harsh), but it continues to label people as:

Toxic, Misogynists, Poisoned, Racists, Haters, Trolls, Pedophiles, Basement-dwellers, White supremacists, Obnoxiously biased, Sixth grade bullies, Conspiracy theorists, Unrepentant sex criminals, Seething underground pool of excrement and bile, Not belonging to "normal, decent portion of the human race"

To quote what the writer, Arthur Chu, wrote elsewhere:

"In a war, a real war, a war for survival, you use all the weapons in your arsenal because you assume the enemy will use all the weapons in theirs. Because you understand that it IS a war."

This, is what he believes is war, and this is how he thinks it should be fought.

Personally I'd prefer niceness and civility.

astrodust• 11 years ago

Niceness and civility are worthy goals, but that'll never happen at a place like Reddit. The poison is too culturally ingrained.

That's not to say there aren't nice people there, just as there are nice people in war zones, but they're not in charge and they get pushed around by forces beyond their control.

strathmeyer2• 11 years ago

HackerNews is the only website that has had somebody call my employerer... because of a comment I made on an article that was later linked here. He made sure to let us know that he made a lot of hiring decisions in tech and wondered why I would upset him so much. That kind of toxicity isn't allowed on Reddit.

thelastguy• 11 years ago

Reddit calling their users terrorists? And they wonder why all their userbase are leaving in doves.

mikeyouse2• 11 years ago

I personally left because it became highly approved / encouraged to call Ellen Pao a cunt every other post followed by all manner of racist bullshit. Lo-and-behold, the idiot neoreactionary mob was wrong again and Ellen was trying to protect the reddit culture, but there will be no apology, they'll just move on to the next faux-outrage that justifies their intense racism and misogyny.

When thinly veiled stormfront posts regularly make it to the front page of your forum, it's time to jump ship and watch the burning mess from afar.

monstruoso4• 11 years ago

People where mad at her because she obviously is a scammer, along with her husband.

Her rap sheet and her actions were the things that brought her animosity from the users. I do not support the view that it was because reddit users obviously hate women, all women and since Pao is a woman, they must hate her too.

I think that position is inane.

Reddit’s Terrorists Have Won: Ellen Pao and the Failure to Rebrand Web 2.0

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