I also believe that the banning of FPH was a test run to see how well her downvote / shadowban / community removal bots and tools were up to par and ready for action - as a way to show her clients that reddit is containable and controllable and not necessarily a totally unruly beast - the fear most investors would have about such a site, I imagine.
That's not unreasonable if true. On the other hand, if actually true, it failed pretty spectacularly. Reddit wasn't containable so much as it started leaving. As many other have said, so went Digg before it when it tried pretty much the same thing.
if it wasn't true, she would have been fired as CEO... or resigned to please the reddit community. when i realized that was not the happening, I knew there was a bigger picture to this. Reddit is less worried about saving face than attracting new corporate clients and government approval.
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radium_coyote ago
That's not unreasonable if true. On the other hand, if actually true, it failed pretty spectacularly. Reddit wasn't containable so much as it started leaving. As many other have said, so went Digg before it when it tried pretty much the same thing.
No_to_censorship ago
if it wasn't true, she would have been fired as CEO... or resigned to please the reddit community. when i realized that was not the happening, I knew there was a bigger picture to this. Reddit is less worried about saving face than attracting new corporate clients and government approval.