We get fun looks in traffic.” Next to an image of a cat under elaborate blankets: “Our cat is obsessed with blanket forts, so we made him this.” Accompanying an image of a huge dog in a car’s passenger seat: “This is Ben. Cheerful descriptions of animals, however, are very much on point. No posts about cats just adopted off the street no bird-with-an-injured-beak stories. They are actually asking for reasonable support, and as moderators, we are trying very hard to do what we can to make those changes happen.These are the rules: Users of /r/aww aren’t allowed to post about dogs that are dying, or sick, or just back from the vet.
The two op-ed authors, Brian Lynch and Courtnie Swearingen, work full-time as attorneys but also commit hours of their free time to moderating Reddit forums. Though company leaders have apologized publicly, they still have not fully explained the decision."įurther, they said that Taylor's termination is just a recent example of how Reddit is disregarding not only the site's business but also the community at large. "Miscommunication implies there was any communication at all or any kind of real planning in place to compensate for the loss, when in reality the moderators and AMA guests were left stranded. As for the "miscommunication" apology, the op-ed authors responded thusly: This, they say, was just an example of how valuable Taylor was as a communicator and how disruptive it was to dismiss her. That, however, caused other subreddits to shut down as a show of support. When Taylor was terminated, for example, apparently a scheduled AMA had to be abruptly cancelled, causing the team of moderators to panic and shut down that particular subreddit to figure things out.
The primary reason for taking those sites down temporarily, according to the subreddit moderators, was to protest how Reddit's management changes are seemingly done without consideration for the community. But in an op-ed posted today in the New York Times, those same volunteer moderators said that the apology was not enough. Pao eventually posted an apology for the lack of communication and promised to improve things going forward.
A slew of subreddits, mostly run by volunteer moderators, went private in protest of the firing over the weekend as a result. Reddit CEO Ellen Pao learned that the hard way late last week when it abruptly dismissed Victoria Taylor, the company's former director of talent who was instrumental in popularizing the site's "AMA" (Ask Me Anything) feature. It turns out that if you suddenly fire a valuable member of the community, that community will get very angry at you.
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