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发帖数: 3803 | 1 Ellen Pao
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Pao in 2015
Residence San Francisco, California, U.S.
Nationality American
Alma mater Princeton University (Electrical Engineering, 1991)
Harvard Law School (Juris Doctor, 1994)
Harvard Business School (MBA, 1998)
Occupation Attorney, executive
Spouse(s) Buddy Fletcher (m. 2007)
Reddit revolt continues as user petition calls for resignation of CEO Ellen
Pao
Petition surpasses 150,000 users upset after firing of talent director
Pao has apologized for handling of transition, but users unsatisfied
Reddit CEO Ellen Pao has proposed a ban on salary negotiations.
Pao posted a statement on Reddit on Friday: ‘We are going to figure this
out and fix it.’ Photograph: Beck Diefenbach/Reuters
Jana Kasperkevic in New York
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More than 150,000 Reddit users have signed an online petition calling for
Ellen Pao, the site’s interim chief executive, to step down. The petition
arose after Victoria Taylor, the director of talent who managed the site’s
popular Ask Me Anything (AMA) subreddit, was fired.
Reddit CEO sorry for 'letting down' users after popular subforums shut down
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“Action must be taken to prevent Reddit from being further run into the
ground,” the petition said. “Stop Ellen Pao from destroying the Reddit.com
community by making her step down as CEO of Reddit Inc.”
After Taylor left the company last Thursday, around 300 subreddits, or
discussion areas, on topics including gaming, science, history and cinema
were shut down by their moderators as a form of protest.
By Sunday, most of the subreddits were back up and the petition was on its
way to reaching 150,000 signatures.
In answer to a request for comment, Reddit provided a statement that Pao
first released to the press on Friday.
“I want to apologize for how we handled the transition yesterday,” the
statement said. “We should have informed the moderators earlier and
provided more detail on the transition plan. We are working to make
improvements and create the best experience for our users and we aren’t
always perfect. Our community is what makes Reddit, Reddit and we let you
down.”
In interviews on Friday, Pao apologized , but her remarks did not satisfy
Reddit users because they were not made on the site, where such users felt
Pao would have been communicating directly with them. Pao did post a
statement on Reddit on Friday, in which she said: “We are going to figure
this out and fix it.”
In March, Pao lost a landmark sex discrimination lawsuit against the venture
capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Pao and her lawyer argued
that Kleiner was a boys’ club and that Pao was fired because she was a
woman. The jury found in favor of the company, which claimed that Pao was
fired because she was bad at her job, was divisive and not a team player.
According to the New York Times, which spoke to Pao when the petition had
about 13,000 signatures, the call for her resignation did not faze her.
“It’s an exciting job. We’re doing a lot behind the scenes that people
have not seen yet,” Pao said. “Most of the community is made up of
thoughtful people, and they can appreciate what we all do, even if we don’t
always agree.”
Pao was hired by Reddit in April 2013. “Being part of a community of people
who care is inspiring and energizing,” she said then, in a statement. “
Reddit has so much to offer so many people, and I’m excited to find
partners to help make Reddit even more awesome.”
In November 2014, she was appointed interim chief executive after the
resignation of Yishan Wong.
In September 2011, when Reddit looked to hire a CEO, a company statement
said: “Make no mistake, Reddit owes its past, present, and future success
to the community. We wouldn’t seriously consider any individuals for the
CEO position unless they understood the community and were passionate about
serving its needs.”
That is what users signing the petition say Pao – who has offended some by
cracking down on trolling – does not do.
“A vast majority of the Reddit community believes that Pao … has
overstepped her boundaries and fears that she will run Reddit into the
ground. Alternative sites to Reddit.com have sprung up and have received
vast amounts of traffic within the recent months,” the petition says.
“The communication between the Reddit administration team to its subreddit
moderators is very lacking and rather unsettling after years of empty
promises to the moderators to improve and provide tools to help run
subreddits, and ultimately Reddit as a whole, smoothly.”
When the petition surpassed 100,000 signatures on Sunday, its creators
posted an update noting that Pao and chairman and site co-founder Alexis
Ohanian had issued apologies via comments and interviews via news outlets.
“Along with their apologies were, again, empty promises to improve their
communication with the community and provide tools for the moderators as
they have promised to do so years ago,” the users behind the petition said.
“As of right now they have not issued an apology in a site-wide
announcement or blogpost. It is sad that they have resorted to the news
rather than addressing us, their consumers.”
Those behind the petition urged those who signed it to keep “keep spreading
, promoting, and supporting.
“We will not stop until we see action taken,” they said.
Advance Publications, which owns Reddit, is under no obligation to respond
to the petition. | x****k
发帖数: 2932 | 2 我觉得这事和她的种族/性别无关，纯属左B no zuo no die。老老实实奉行
meritocracy就没这么多扯蛋的事了.6月份就开始闹了，她wiki上已经被更新了
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http://www.solidot.org/story?sid=44654
上周五，Reddit用户一觉醒来发现他们无法访问特定讨论主题或叫subreddit。原因是/
r/IAmA的一名协调员、Reddit的全职雇员Victoria Taylor突然遭到解雇，此举激怒了
众多的版主或叫moderator。在Reddit上，moderator可以访问subreddit的管理工具，
将其设置为公开或私有，这些moderator都是志愿者，也就是说Reddit的大部分管理工
作是不拿钱的志愿者完成的。此举有利有弊，而其弊处在整个事件中完全暴露出来。因
为不满Victoria Taylor遭到解雇，许多subreddit的moderator们修改了设置将其设为
私有，外人无法再访问这些subreddit。被临时设为私有的subreddit包括了受欢迎的/r
/IAmA、/r/AskReddit、/r/Books /r/TodayILearned、/r/Videos、/r/History、/r/
Gaming、r/science、/r/Movies和/r/Music等等（大部分都已经恢复公开访问）。
Reddit的管理层一开始不认为此事很严重，联合创始人Alexis Ohanian还就此开了玩笑
，但事情的发展出乎他们的意外。Reddit的CEO鲍康如成为此事的一个焦点，用户在
change.org上请愿解雇鲍康如，署名人数超过了15.5万。在网站上，鲍康如也成为攻击
的对象，他们甚至修改了希特勒的维基百科页面，用鲍康如的肖像替代希特勒，认为她
就是Reddit的希特勒。 | l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 3 恩, 好像那个communication director被解雇完全没有说什么原因. 有人猜测是因为采
访jesse Jackson的harsh 问题惹恼了左逼们.
是/
【在 x****k 的大作中提到】
: 我觉得这事和她的种族/性别无关，纯属左B no zuo no die。老老实实奉行
: meritocracy就没这么多扯蛋的事了.6月份就开始闹了，她wiki上已经被更新了
: =================================================================
: http://www.solidot.org/story?sid=44654
: 上周五，Reddit用户一觉醒来发现他们无法访问特定讨论主题或叫subreddit。原因是/
: r/IAmA的一名协调员、Reddit的全职雇员Victoria Taylor突然遭到解雇，此举激怒了
: 众多的版主或叫moderator。在Reddit上，moderator可以访问subreddit的管理工具，
: 将其设置为公开或私有，这些moderator都是志愿者，也就是说Reddit的大部分管理工
: 作是不拿钱的志愿者完成的。此举有利有弊，而其弊处在整个事件中完全暴露出来。因
: 为不满Victoria Taylor遭到解雇，许多subreddit的moderator们修改了设置将其设为
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