What did they do this time? (announcements)

submitted ago by Atko

Voat is currently getting hit with a huge amount of traffic as a direct result of recent changes happening over at that other place.

Everyone, we’re sorry. We’re both sad to see what we once loved change in this manner, but we’re also excited about the future, but our future won't be traveling down this same path.

We won’t be getting any sleep tonight (again) and we are doing everything we can to handle the traffic.

Our budget is limited but we’ll make sure to fight to the last penny in order to keep Voat alive for this community. If you want to donate, well, now is the time. Our bitcoin address is 1C4Q1RvUb3bzk4aaLVgGccnSnaHYFdESzY.

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SpaceRosa ago

I don't care right now how you're reading that. It's an actual question. So many people blame Ellen Pao for everything that's going wrong with Reddit at the moment and they don't use their brains at all, it's just Must Be Pao because she's popular to hate.

McNastyFilth ago

There's a reason why it's popular to hate on Pao. Her domineering of Reddit has lead to not one but two significant exoduses to VOAT. Why are you surprised people would point their crosshairs at her? She's a fraud with a horrible track record wherever she lands herself. She's a typical opportunist who'll do and use anything at her disposal (including placing herself into victimhood) to gain an advantage. No, sorry, it's not a "hip" thing to hate Pao. It's a justified dislike.

CasualApiphobia ago

SpaceRosa's original condescending phrasing aside, I think this is genuinely a question we should be considering. Is it Pao ruining reddit by herself? More to the point, will Pao's eventual departure do anything to restore reddit to what it was in, say, 2010?

I for one don't think Pao's the only one making these decisions, and that given her reputation is in tatters to reddit's critics already, she can now be the "fall-guy" for all the bad decisions the other shitty admins want to make to the site to absorb all the flak that would otherwise be directed at the entire admin team. We should be pointing fingers at more than just Pao imho.

McNastyFilth ago

I don't doubt that Ellen Pao isn't the only person involved. I'm not surprised that she'd become the interim president for Reddit after all the bullshit that has been going on over the past year/year and a half though. It's much easier to target someone who's clearly into some shady shit than the (possible) people behind her. It sounds very conspiratorial if you go in that direction. It'd be one hell of a story though.