After spending the last few months turning Reddit into a virtual guillotine for its widely despised CEO Ellen Pao, it looks like redditors are finally getting their wish. Ellen Pao is officially stepping down as CEO, and Steve Huffman, co-founder and original CEO, is taking her place.
The mods who rocked Reddit on its most chaotic day have spoken out in a New York Times op-ed in an attempt to explain why they shut down the site’s “Ask Me Anything” forum in the wake of coordinator Victoria Taylor’s sudden firing.
After Reddit effectively consumed itself this weekend over the firing of beloved AMA coordinator Victoria Taylor, redditors have been clawing at themselves for a chance to hear Taylor’s side of things. And now, at long last, the ex-employee has made her first public statement since the real chaos began.
Over the weekend, Reddit’s users had themselves a fit, shutting down almost all of the major subreddits and likening the site’s interim CEO, Ellen Pao, to as many genocidal dictators as they could manage. Now, Pao has come to the message board on bended knee to offer up a mea culpa of her own. And it’s a bad one.
The subreddit at the eye of the shitstorm currently spreading across Internet hellhole Reddit.com, r/IAmA, has come back online after being set as private for less than a day.
If you tried to visit r/IAmA (one of Reddit’s biggest subs) recently, you were probably greeted by the image above. And if you’ve been absolutely anywhere else on the site at all in the past few hours, you probably noticed that everyone is flipping their collective shit over speculation that Victoria Taylor, the…
Before accused Charleston mass-shooter Dylann Roof was even in police custody, one of Reddit’s most popular racism forums (there are many) was praising his slaughter and encouraging more.
This evening, amiable backpack-loser “ChanningTatumHere” fielded the internet’s questions on Reddit to promote a charity contest for a date with Tatum to the premiere of Magic Mike XXL. His answers were charming and perfect and exactly what you’d expect from the cheerful, guileless lunk we’ve all grown to love.
Of all the revelatory emails we gleaned from the Sony mega-hack, none stayed with us like this one from Channing Tatum. The image of him typing HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAH in an email over and over like it’s the best fuckin’ day of 9th grade is eternally endearing. How long did it take him, we’ve wondered—and now we know.
Here’s an image that’s circulating Reddit and Twitter this week, after the site shut down just five of its countless hate groups. The cartoon portrays Reddit as the Tiananmen Square “Tank Man,” being run over by Reddit CEO Ellan Pao. It’s the easiest way to explain why Reddit is toxic.
Reddit took its first baby steps toward cutting down on harassment this week, banning five small subreddits built on personal attacks. That should have been a fairly uncontroversial move, but this is Reddit—and the admins’ good intentions have inevitably paved the road to a insane, sexist, Nazi-themed tantrum taking…
Reddit, a 10-year-old internet community with 3.3 million users, somehow just got around to announcing an anti-harassment policy last month. Now the site, which usually leaves moderation decisions up to the community, has taken its first stab at banning pernicious subreddits under the new rules. Five subreddits have…
Today’s AP report on the FBI’s secret use of dummy corporations and surveillance planes is startling—but what’s almost as surprising is that the same information has been circulating in the internet’s darkest corners for years.
Reddit—the colossal, decade-old, privately owned internet community—has created what’s effectively its very first anti-harassment policy ever. But will it actually cover the racist, bigoted posters in Reddit’s worst communities?
Reddit is at its best when it has no illusions about what it really is: an enormous internet rock tumbler that occasionally produces something with viral potential for me and my coworkers to post on Gawker. When it pretends it’s not also a hive of racism and slime, it insults our collective intelligence.
This puking dog selfie currently circulating on Twitter first appeared on Reddit in September 2014.
A woman who recently visited Buckingham Palace ended up on top of a very popular Reddit thread after removing one glove and answering—or placing?—a call with the selfie stick still attached to her phone. If only we all had the same panache.
An easy way to find a part of Reddit filled with toxic speech and disturbed personalities is to go to Reddit.com and close your eyes and wiggle your mouse and click a bunch. But if you want to find the absolutely, quantitatively worst parts of Reddit, someone did that work for you.
A United Airlines flight bound for Denver was forced to return to Dulles International Airport Monday night after a passenger sprinting to the plane's cockpit allegedly yelling about jihad was subdued by a group of passengers.
Racism and general human toxicity have become more than a niche on Reddit: the site has made a name for itself in the larger cyber-bigot community. Racists now look at Reddit as an opportunity—a way to bring fresh hatemongers into the fold.
