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Edit: and yes, I communicated this terribly.
Can you...stop doing that? Like...take a class or something? Because honestly, for as long as I've been paying attention to stuff about reddit, rather than just stuff on reddit, admins have communicated *horribly*. In like...the worst possible way. So bad that it would be better to say nothing. Which is almost impressive.
Like 99% of all the huge drama that ends up hurting this site is because you (the collective you) absolutely *suck* at communicating. It almost always traces back to that. All the decisions and actual actions that have been taken (more or less) would have been either perfectly fine, or at most a minor drama in the individual thread it was announced in if the community had been interacted with in a less ridiculous way. It goes far beyond one bad comment.
I was going on to explain, but what I wrote ended up being ridiculously long. Suffice to say that not only does the way that mods are communicated with need to change, but the way you think about decision making at reddit needs to change. These arguments for why you're pieces of shit are like a cancer. (Like that guy that got fired has. Gotta love examples that pull double duty.) Left untreated, even for a short period of time, you'll be overwhelmed by them. And some day that cancer will get bad enough to kill you.
If you think about any publicly facing action (including hirings and firings) without having a meeting where you have devil's advocates arguing with your decisions, and you formulating strong responses to the obvious arguments, and maybe even making you reconsider the action, you're doing it wrong and you'll keep having these problems.
Comment by Reddisaurusrekts at 07/07/2015 at 02:05 UTC
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Maybe they can rehire Victoria as a Communications Training Consultant, since she was honestly the only one I'm aware of who was popular and good at it.