4120 upvotes, 59 direct replies (showing 25)
View submission: An old team at reddit
To be completely honest it really seems like Ellen took the high road here, at least compared to a lot of Redditors.
That doesn't take much considering how many Redditors handled this.
Comment by Meneth at 10/07/2015 at 21:28 UTC*
389 upvotes, 10 direct replies
Yep, just take a look at how the #2 comment[1] in this thread is by someone named DylannStormRoof (the perpetrator of the Charleston massacre), and who moderates CoonTown (imagine the KKK had a subreddit).
1: https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/3cucye/an_old_team_at_reddit/csz1bf6
Edit: At least he got downvoted after that was pointed out.
Comment by [deleted] at 10/07/2015 at 21:25 UTC
1396 upvotes, 2 direct replies
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Comment by Reedfrost at 10/07/2015 at 21:22 UTC*
789 upvotes, 6 direct replies
Unfortunately true.
Edit: even in these comments you see the vitriol that she inspires. Just because the bar is set low doesn't mean that we should dismiss her for being above it.
Comment by Bunnyhat at 10/07/2015 at 21:29 UTC
5 upvotes, 0 direct replies
As long as she doesn't literally fling poo on the way out she will have handled it better.
Comment by Dingo54 at 10/07/2015 at 21:30 UTC
5 upvotes, 2 direct replies
Off topic, but why did you feel you had to quote his entire comment before replying to it?
Comment by not_enough_characte at 10/07/2015 at 21:31 UTC
5 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Can't get much worse than repeatedly calling her ugly and making racist jokes. Also, death threats, really? People are terrible.
Comment by blahblahdoesntmatter at 10/07/2015 at 21:34 UTC
3 upvotes, 0 direct replies
It's a shame, too. Like every cause Reddit takes up, people had already stopped caring around a week later. I don't care if she's here or not, but it seems like actually resigning because of slacktivism is silly.
Comment by hobo_law at 10/07/2015 at 21:33 UTC
8 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Were death threats and personal attacks not the correct way to handle the situation?
Comment by flameruler94 at 10/07/2015 at 21:32 UTC
5 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Yep, he was spot on in the paragraphs about what how people reacted. Reddit just got outclassed and scolded for throwing essentially a royal temper tantrum. It might've been for valid reasons, which is the excuse most people will give, but there's a right way and a wrong way to react to those reasons.
Comment by DubTeeDub at 10/07/2015 at 21:38 UTC
2 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Yeah the whole obsession with Chairman Pao and all the hate and harrassment was so juvenile. They may have had some real concerns but they were so insufferable that you couldn't take them seriously.
Comment by urfaselol at 10/07/2015 at 21:31 UTC
2 upvotes, 0 direct replies
anonymity is a hell of a drug
Comment by [deleted] at 10/07/2015 at 21:31 UTC
5 upvotes, 0 direct replies
ONLY 10,000 MORE SIGNATURES AND WE CAN PROVE ELLEN KICKED MY DOG
Comment by funnygreensquares at 10/07/2015 at 21:53 UTC
2 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Absofreakinlutely. Redditors can be like that kid whose toy makes a small glitch so he smashes it to smithereens in anger then cries about no longer having a toy.
Comment by persona_dos at 10/07/2015 at 21:50 UTC
2 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Fucking children. I've seen newborns act and make less noise than the people submitting hate messages to Ellen.
Comment by Qix213 at 10/07/2015 at 22:07 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Unfortunately when you have this many people on one place, there will be loud asshats. It's a virtual guarantee so don't phrase your comments like loud asshats are a common Reddit occurrence or that Reddit is somehow more evil/mean/whatever than any other enormous community of this size.
I know you're not saying all of reddit or even most of reddit is bad, but phrasing like this implies it and is exactly the kind of wording BS news articles use to distort facts and work an agenda into something. Reddit is and has done many more insanely generous acts of kindness and love throughout the world than they have been mean-spirited to others.
Comment by benpaco at 11/07/2015 at 01:55 UTC
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I'll say this - a lot of redditors, I think, myself included, don't like to get involved in this sort of thing. I'll silently downvote the "Chairman Pao" posts and the Nazi remarks (as a Jew myself, it feels more like lowering the actions of Hitler to the comparative unimportance of a CEO of a website than it does condeming her actions), but I'm not going to say much about it. I'll just stick to the subs I actually frequent, little ones for bands or communities I support, and let most things run rampant.
I was for fatpeoplehate closing.
I am for closing Coontown and other similar subs.
I wasn't too upset about Victoria because I never heard (and still haven't heard) *why* she was let go.
But there was no reason to say that. I was just going to get -2 votes and that would be all - I didn't come into these situations exactly in a timely manner.
And now that I've missed coming into this thread on time, I thought it was at least worth saying it now. I feel bad and almost a little guilty that I bit my tongue when the majority was against what I was for and now that the tables have seemingly flipped, I'm willing to say how I felt, but thus is human nature.
Comment by thesurfingwalrus at 10/07/2015 at 22:03 UTC
2 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Ok you don't need to quote the whole comment if your not singling anything out.
Comment by AlderaanRefugee at 10/07/2015 at 21:29 UTC
2 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Speak for yourself, I only compared her to Hitler twelve times.
Comment by PrincessRosella at 10/07/2015 at 21:42 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
There were a lot of really valid, well thought-out, passionate criticisms that addressed the issues poignantly and rightly brought attention to the problem through the media and amped up the pressure at the executive level.
Then there were personal insults, which do nothing but devalue and degrade the argument you're trying to make.
Comment by [deleted] at 10/07/2015 at 21:35 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
how many "redditors" do you think there are ? 10m, 50m ? Doesn't take much to cherry pick the worst of the worst then slap the label to all redditors. In fact, I think your fallacy[1] has even got its own webpage !
1: http://www.logicalfallacies.info/presumption/hasty-generalisation/
Comment by Iwillgetbanned at 10/07/2015 at 21:38 UTC
2 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Its not hard to take the moral high ground against a bunch of people who absentmindedly say the first mean thing that comes to them..
Comment by Jesse402 at 10/07/2015 at 21:39 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
> To be completely honest it really seems like Ellen took the high road here, at least compared to a lot of Redditors.
That doesn't take much considering how many Redditors handled this.
Why must we quote the entire comment?
Comment by RelativityEngine at 10/07/2015 at 22:44 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
She is obviously the consummate professional that Reddit needed her to be. She was the perfect hate magnet for the dregs of Reddit. Female and not white? Her mere existence is offensive to these people.
Comment by TThor at 10/07/2015 at 23:24 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
I didn't like the policies and the way things have been handled under Ellen's leadership, but yeah a lot of people took it fairly immaturely. The internet tends to bring out those worst extremes in people
Comment by TheSlimyDog at 11/07/2015 at 00:00 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Can I ask you something? I honestly still don't know what she did wrong. I heard some bad stuff about her husband and a few subreddits that were doing some questionable stuff were banned.