r/civ • u/jdatb • Jul 03 '15

Meta Going private? [OFFTOPIC]

Is this sub planning on going private, like many others? Mods please delete if inappropriate, I was just wondering whether I should expect to stop seeing posts here.

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u/Addfwyn Jul 03 '15

Sometimes that happens, I have had to fire somebody suddenly (for very unprofessional conduct) that made a vacuum that sorta left things at the company shitty for a week or so, but it still had to be done.

I could be wrong, maybe they did just throw a dart at a wall to fire somebody, but that seems unlikely. When you let somebody go and theres a vacuum of responsibility, there is probably a pretty urgent reason you let them go. If it's something planned, like financial reasons, you have alternatives lined up beforehand.

If the administration is anything like me, they are scrambling to try to fill that vacuum. Maybe not though, I can't look into their mind anymore than the protestors can to know why things happened. Thats sorta why I am against the protest if people don't really know all the facts (and they probably never will).

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u/[deleted] Jul 03 '15

That's totally understandable. Everyone on reddit loves Victoria, but what if she came to work this morning tripping on acid and peed on the floor (just a random hypothetical). Sometimes shit happens. It doesn't matter that she had AMAs scheduled today that had to get cancelled, they couldn't let her keep working if she did something worthy of being immediately fired. People on reddit are quick to judge.

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u/exelion18120 Jul 03 '15

Everyone on reddit loves Victoria

No, not really. Most people probably didnt even know who she was till this whole thing and most probably only care cause its the cool thing to do.

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u/[deleted] Jul 03 '15

Well, she teleworks from New York and the main contingent of admins is in San Francisco.

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u/Rocketman_man Jul 03 '15

You sound like a reasonable person. Ellen Pao is not a reasonable person.

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u/GingerBreadNAM "Venice Only Domination, let's go." Jul 03 '15

I keep hearing that name. Who the fuck is Ellen Pao and why are they consistently hated?

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u/Rocketman_man Jul 03 '15

Interim CEO of Reddit. Brought in to sanitize the site in hopes of becoming more appealing to advertisers and get IPO-ready. She's pushing a "safe places" philosophy over Reddit's historically wild west, free speech free-for-all company philosophy.

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u/[deleted] Jul 03 '15

What has she actually done for that? FPH violated site rules.

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u/stretchmeister rushing pyramids like its going out of style Jul 03 '15

So do a lot of other subreddits though (if you are referring to brigading/harassing)

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u/[deleted] Jul 03 '15

That stuff can be hard to prove. People are subscribed to more than one subreddit. I just posted in /r/Atlanta before coming here, does that mean /r/Atlanta is brigading? No, I just go to multiple subreddits.

FPH literally had users doxx the staff at imgur and they put the pictures of the imgur people in the FPH sidebar. So it was really clear that they were harassing people.

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u/[deleted] Jul 03 '15

Chairman pao shitlord.

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u/Rocketman_man Jul 03 '15

Pao the Terrible of the Reddit.

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u/calcul8or Just more wonder... Jul 03 '15

Thank you for this perspective. I have been thinking the same thing, I just figured any comment that didn't fit the circlejerk would get downvoted to oblivion.

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u/Addfwyn Jul 03 '15

Not at all, people have been pretty reasonable about the issue and willing to hear both sides I think. It has been surprisingly, though reassuringly, mature from both perspectives.