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View submission: An old team at reddit
As a devils advocate (which judging by voting trends is going to be extremely unpopular this time)...
The amount of people who said truly unfair things was extremely small compared to Reddit. I think a lot of the talk here is counter-jerk for the sake of itself, because nearly everyone agreed that Pao was bad for Reddit. You know how Reddit trends go, and like clockwork, about two days after the meltdown, the popular opinion was "Who cares? More memes!"
We may be overdoing it with the cycle, here. There was a tremendous amount of legitimate criticism and concern about Reddit's direction, and a large part of that is due to its CEO. The "be nice" idea that admins have, honestly, has no place in business, which is what they do. If you do a bad job, what is fair is criticism and questions, not some idealist's dream of kindness and trust. That's just now how it works, with good reason.
All that said, it will be nice to not see actual hatred or ill-wishing on the front page for a little bit.
There's nothing here!