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Home»News»Reddit Seeing Red? Streak Of High Profile Departures Mar the Community

Reddit Seeing Red? Streak Of High Profile Departures Mar the Community

Staff WriterBy Staff WriterFebruary 21, 2021
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A few days ago we heard news that interim Reddit CEO Ellen Pao had resigned from the community, now Chief Engineer Bethanye Blount has chosen to leave as well, just two months after joining, raising several questions about the site’s future.

There has been some discomfort among the management of the popular site of late, which all seemingly started by the firing of the Ask Me Anything thread’s coordinator, Victoria Taylor. This brought a lot of heat on the recently departed CEO Ellen Pao at the time, who finally buckled under the pressure and resigned. Just a few days after her resignation, it was the turn of the Chief Engineer Bethanye Blount to leave.

Blount said the reason for her departure was her lack of confidence in achieving the unrealistic goals the website was setting for itself. She said that the community was making some promises which were unrealistic and would be very difficult to achieve. She was of course referring to new tools for helping subreddit moderators and solving the issue of harassing comments and content.

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Another interesting point she presented involved gender discrimination. She said that the departure of Ellen Pao was largely in part due to her gender. She also said that the CEO had been placed on a “Glass Cliff”, a term used to describe a phenomenon where women who have been placed a high level management as a set-up during crisis. However, she said that she didn’t believe that Victoria was a victim of similar treatment. She also said her decision to leave wasn’t based on the departure of Ellen Pao nor was it a result of gender discrimination.

Blount previously found the startup MailRank, which was bought by Facebook in 2011, where she worked up until two months ago when she was hired by Reddit.

A twitter user tweeted about how Bethanye lost faith in Reddit, to which she sent out a good reply about Reddit, saying it had some good people and she wishes them all the best. But she had some concerns and a lot of work had to be done.

She also tweeted that it was time for her to start something new. Start another company; write some code, all her favorite things.

Recode.net also caught up with the former Reddit CEO Steve Huffman who has now returned to take up the position. He said that there was no gender discrimination in the organization and that it actually supported the idea of women being employed at the management level. He also negated Bethanye’s concerns by saying that he had full confidence that the company would be able to meet the goals it was setting up for itself.
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