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Did she quit or get fired? I forget.
I do know I haven't paid attention to AMAs since then.
Comment by Delta-_ at 10/06/2021 at 02:36 UTC*
70 upvotes, 1 direct replies
It's a long story, but yes she was fired.
Everyone blamed former reddit CEO Ellen Pao for firing Victoria Taylor, a popular admin who managed communications for the IAmA subreddit, but it was actually Alexis Ohanian, aka u/kn0thing[1] (reddit co-founder) who fired her.
He let Pao take the fall for the ensuing controversy and reddit users harassed her until she quit.
Of course, that was just the straw that broke the camel's back. People were already mad at Pao because she took the lead on reining in the large hate groups that were festering on the site like r/coontown and r/fatpeoplehate.
The predominant narrative was that she was on a tirade to turn reddit into a family friendly facebook-esque site. With the benefit of hindsight, it seems like she was just trying to clean up the rotting garbage that was all over this site and ended up getting destroyed for it, and Alexis (presumably with the collaboration of other board members) was all too happy to let someone else soak up the negativity.
r/IAmA is now a steaming pile of shit without Victoria, as expected.
Comment by FSUnoles77 at 09/06/2021 at 19:02 UTC
211 upvotes, 1 direct replies
She was fired. She was also involved with redditgifts if I remember correclty.