Reddit's users (known as redditors) are essentially creating and maintaining your product for you for free. The best part of Reddit's business model, if you're a member of the site's management team, is that those users aren't paid. That, in turn, attracts millions of dollars in ad revenue. In many ways, Reddit is a dream media company every day, hundreds of thousands of users generate fantastic pieces of content - including photos, videos, and memes - that get millions of clicks. Reddit is a unique beast, and the way it's set up is the reason Taylor's firing has turned the site upside down. How Reddit's moderation structure allowed the site's users to take control And if I know one thing about this community, it’s that you’ll continue making your voices heard. I’ve been incredibly humbled and honored to serve this community, and I truly believe all voices matter.Īnd really, this weekend wasn’t about me. From your messages to your artwork, I am deeply moved and grateful beyond words, and your encouragement has meant more than you’ll ever know. Thank you for everything you’ve given me. I just want to take a moment to say thank you to all of you who have reached out. You allowed me to be a part of some of the greatest conversations of our time, and it was an honor to be your ambassador.
#Ask reddit how to#
I’ve had some time to think about how to respond to the extraordinary kindness and support you’ve shown me. While she didn't reveal any details of why she was let go, she did thank users for their outpouring of support: Taylor later posted her own response to her firing directly to Reddit. Other forums like Art ( r/art), with 3 million subscribers, and Ask Reddit ( r/askreddit), with 8.9 million subscribers, also went dark. Reddit's popular Ask Me Anything forum ( r/iama) was set to private - freezing out its more than 8 million subscribers. The affected subreddits were some of the most visited on the site. And in the days that followed, moderators began locking users out of various forums, and temporarily closing many of those subreddits to signal their dissatisfaction with Taylor's dismissal. Taylor was fired on July 2 for reasons that haven't been clarified. Taylor's popularity and standing within the Reddit community became apparent during the Fourth of July weekend. Most prominently, she legitimized Reddit’s popular "Ask Me Anything" feature and helped it go mainstream, making big name celebrities comfortable with the oft-confrontational Reddit hordes while lending veracity to the process for a readership that tends to skew skeptical. She went by the handle /u/Chooter and liaised between the leaders of the Reddit's largest communities and their volunteer army of unpaid moderators. She was crucial to its operations because she was seen as a bridge between the Reddit community and its management team.
Taylor, a publicist, was hired by the site in 2013 as the director of communications. Getting moderators on the same page as staffers who "run" Reddit is where a woman named Victoria Taylor came in. Some of these people are Reddit's moderators, unpaid volunteers who make sure those forums (known as subreddits) stay on topic, run smoothly, and don't descend into mayhem.
Countless people visit every day just to lurk in the site's many forums, and those who do post go by (typically silly) user names. Reading and posting to Reddit is generally a pretty anonymous experience.
Idc who calls the shots at reddit, they should've known rule #1 in their pr handbook was always VICTORIA STAYS /TXhnDXxOm5 The controversy began with the firing of a key employee Reddit's users - the site's heart and guts - effectively brought one the biggest properties on the internet to standstill. It started with the firing of a longtime employee, escalated into a mutinous display of solidarity, and ultimately ended with Pao's resignation. Those AMAs in particular have afforded Reddit a massive amount of cultural clout and, in recent weeks, have also been at the center of a sitewide meltdown.
#Ask reddit series#
Reddit's jagged history includes shaming and harassing fat people helping to carve out the disgusting phenomenon known as "creep shots" posting the cutest pictures of cats that you can find on the internet creating explainers so good they make me want to throw my computer against the wall and hosting various celebrities from all spheres of life (actors, scientists, politicians, viral sensations, etc.) for a series of posts known as AMAs (Ask Me Anything). Related Why Reddit's ban on Fat People Hate is ripping it apart
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