No, it was exactly 5.4 years ago when she started pulling this shit, telling all of reddit how they needed to act, and they needed to watch what they say. bans started happening for offensiveness, not for illegality. Jan/Feb of 2015. Then she banned Coontown and fatpeoplehate around June of that year. When all the gamergate bullshit was happening.
I came over when Pao started taking gamergate sides and posted the initial "censorship" rules, where you will be banned for wrongthink on gamergate. Picking the side of Not the woman was to be considered 'Hate Speech' and you would be banned.
Then she banned Coontown and fatpeoplehate around June of that year
I didn't remember that part, I thought coontown was banned months or a year before that.
Anyways it's funny how back in the day there had only ever been a single subreddit banned from reddit and that was the pedophilic one. Now we're probably in the thousands.
I get Coontown and r/niggers mixed up. I may have reversed those two.
But yeah, it was a nice run, but it really wasn;t worth ever talking to anyone there, because there were so many users, you couldn't actually have a conversation, it was simply "hallway sex" communication.
Not an admin. After the former CEO stepped down he white knighted her in to give her a bit of credibility. At the time she was pushing a lawsuit against her former employer (a big VC firm) alleging she had been fired due to sexism and she needed a high profile job to make herself look skilled and valuable. Turned out they'd fired her because she was a generally unlikable person who causes conflict wherever she goes.
There was already unrest on reddit over the SJW nonsense that had been growing for years, so appointing a raging feminist to the helm because vagina didn't help matters. At one point she even tried using the site, but she posted a link to something in her own inbox thinking users would be able to see it, which didn't help her image as a clueless outsider. There was a user rebellion for a while, but it got hijacked by SJW powermods who tried to spin it as a rebellion against the lack of censorship tools at their disposal.
Eventually the board "relented" and appointed Steve Huffmin as CEO and gave Pao the boot. I'm guessing they got some first hand experience of dealing with her and decided they didn't want to be the next ones she sued. There was some hope Huffmin wouldn't be a shithead since he had been one of the sites founders and was part of reddit culture back when it was a generally wild west, say what you like kind of place, but of course he went full SJW and started cracking down on anything vaguely hostile to cultural marxism.
So she's exactly the kind of person you'd expect to virtue signal about having known Ghislaine Maxwell was pimping children and not to have done anything about it.
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Argumentative ago
isn't that chink a former reddit admin?
LurkedForever ago
Chairman Pao. Her actions are why many of us origionally came to Voat (self included) with FPH
AttackHelicopter ago
How do you not know about Chairman Pao? It wasn't that long ago that she sank Reddit.
Argumentative ago
was it less that 5.4 years ago? because i haven't given a shit about plebbit since i came here
cyclops1771 ago
No, it was exactly 5.4 years ago when she started pulling this shit, telling all of reddit how they needed to act, and they needed to watch what they say. bans started happening for offensiveness, not for illegality. Jan/Feb of 2015. Then she banned Coontown and fatpeoplehate around June of that year. When all the gamergate bullshit was happening.
AttackHelicopter ago
The Fattening is what brought me to Voat. I've started over two or three times here. I came for FPH, but stayed for Heil Hitler.
cyclops1771 ago
I came over when Pao started taking gamergate sides and posted the initial "censorship" rules, where you will be banned for wrongthink on gamergate. Picking the side of Not the woman was to be considered 'Hate Speech' and you would be banned.
Ocelot ago
I didn't remember that part, I thought coontown was banned months or a year before that.
Anyways it's funny how back in the day there had only ever been a single subreddit banned from reddit and that was the pedophilic one. Now we're probably in the thousands.
TheManyHands ago
They just banned over 2000 subreddits at once in the latest purge last week.
cyclops1771 ago
I get Coontown and r/niggers mixed up. I may have reversed those two.
But yeah, it was a nice run, but it really wasn;t worth ever talking to anyone there, because there were so many users, you couldn't actually have a conversation, it was simply "hallway sex" communication.
Argumentative ago
ahha i might have been more aware of this bitch than i recall, good shout mate cheers for jogging the old memory
cyclops1771 ago
No worries, she'll be apples!
Broc_Lia ago
Not an admin. After the former CEO stepped down he white knighted her in to give her a bit of credibility. At the time she was pushing a lawsuit against her former employer (a big VC firm) alleging she had been fired due to sexism and she needed a high profile job to make herself look skilled and valuable. Turned out they'd fired her because she was a generally unlikable person who causes conflict wherever she goes.
There was already unrest on reddit over the SJW nonsense that had been growing for years, so appointing a raging feminist to the helm because vagina didn't help matters. At one point she even tried using the site, but she posted a link to something in her own inbox thinking users would be able to see it, which didn't help her image as a clueless outsider. There was a user rebellion for a while, but it got hijacked by SJW powermods who tried to spin it as a rebellion against the lack of censorship tools at their disposal.
Eventually the board "relented" and appointed Steve Huffmin as CEO and gave Pao the boot. I'm guessing they got some first hand experience of dealing with her and decided they didn't want to be the next ones she sued. There was some hope Huffmin wouldn't be a shithead since he had been one of the sites founders and was part of reddit culture back when it was a generally wild west, say what you like kind of place, but of course he went full SJW and started cracking down on anything vaguely hostile to cultural marxism.
So she's exactly the kind of person you'd expect to virtue signal about having known Ghislaine Maxwell was pimping children and not to have done anything about it.
metricisokay ago
She was CEO actually
Ashtraykenazi ago
That was the period of my exodus and discovery of voat
facepaint ago
Yes.