Reddit’s Terrorists Have Won: Ellen Pao and the Failure to Rebrand Web 2.0
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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.
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.
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.
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.
Neither accusation had any bearing on her management of Reddit, and both are highly spurious. As far as I can tell, the entirety of the complaints against her are that her husbands hedge fund blew up and that she sued KPCB.. I'm glad that a mob of Internet trolls knows exactly what happened in both cases.
Have you actually read the Kleiner transcripts? She had better performance than many of her peers, faced actual harassment from senior partners but it didn't meet the threshold that the courts demand for her suit, so she lost. It was probably a good decision from the courts and she negotiated a settlement for not appealing -- this happens all the time.
I have no idea how any of this justifies literally thousands of people calling her racist and misogynist names.. And then having everyone of those comments upvoted to the hundreds or thousands of points. Talk about inane.
It doesn't matter whether you think your opinion of her is the right one. I'm explaining to you that the reason why redditors hate her is not simply because she has a vagina and redditors hate all women.