<story><title>Front Page Subreddits Go Private in Response to Firing of Reddit Admin</title><url>https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/3bxduw/why_was_riama_along_with_a_number_of_other_large/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>slg</author><text>&amp;gt;Mr. Jackson, You are an immoral, hate-filled race baiter that has figured out how to manipulate the political system for your own gain. You&amp;#x27;ve personally set back race relations year after year and continue to do more harm than good. Extorting money from companies to line your pockets and threatening to bus in protestors and create a fake racial controversy if they don’t agree to pay you off is NOT civil rights activism. My question is simple; how is your relationship with the illegitimate child you fathered in 1998 while cheating on your wife? Bonus question: How much money have you extorted from various people and companies over the years of practicing your shakedown scheme? Do you think Al Capone would be jealous of your business model if he were still alive?&lt;p&gt;That is the &amp;quot;best&amp;quot; question according to Reddit&amp;#x27;s sorting algorithm.  I think that easily qualifies as &amp;quot;overly disrespectful&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;It one thing to ask tough questions.  It is another to call a man an immoral race baiter, say he set back his cause years, call him an extortionist, chastise him for an affair, and then insinuate he is worse than one of the most notorious criminals in US history all within a single paragraph.  That isn&amp;#x27;t a question, it is a personal attack.&lt;p&gt;I sadly don&amp;#x27;t think it is surprising that a comment like that is posted.  But it is a black eye on the Reddit community that it was upvoted more than any other question in the AMA.</text></item><item><author>Uhhrrr</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t think the questions were overly disrespectful. It&amp;#x27;s an Ask Me Anything, not an Ask Me Respectful Things. And it&amp;#x27;s not the first time someone has called him a shakedown artist or mentioned his out-of-wedlock child.</text></item><item><author>chernevik</author><text>Jesse Jackson had an AMA that did not go very well.  Several of the most upvoted questions were simply disrespectful.  The Reverend&amp;#x27;s answers were mostly boilerplate and often unresponsive to the question.  The AMA seems to have been part of some PR rollout -- Mother Jones had an article three days ago about Jackson taking on Silicon Valley.  The event seems to have failed the rollout&amp;#x27;s objectives.&lt;p&gt;Not a great moment for anyone: The AMA didn&amp;#x27;t always feature the Reddit community at its best, but the Reverend didn&amp;#x27;t show at all well under the spotlight of Radical Transparency.&lt;p&gt;Given all that, the timing and speed of the admin&amp;#x27;s firing hardly seems coincidental.  Reddit seems to have blown up a number of ongoing events, and upset an important chunk of its community, which hardly suggests that her firing relates to some long-term issue.&lt;p&gt;I can see why Reddit might feel the event wasn&amp;#x27;t handled well.&lt;p&gt;But it is also very plausible that Jackson and his camp were deeply embarrassed, and insisted that someone be punished for that.  So plausible, in fact, that I think Reddit really should give some account that demonstrates that this is _not_ what happened -- or admit that it did.&lt;p&gt;It is very surprising that this whole thing hasn&amp;#x27;t gotten more coverage in the tech press.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zxcvcxz</author><text>The question was on point though. It was a tough question and it hurt, but the guy isn&amp;#x27;t just &amp;quot;some guy&amp;quot; he goes on TV almost every night to push his political agenda. He was called out for being a hypocrite and people in his position deserve to be called out for being hypocritical, deceitful, and manipulative.&lt;p&gt;None of this is anything new though, it&amp;#x27;s widely accepted that Jackson is a demagogue.</text></comment>
<story><title>Front Page Subreddits Go Private in Response to Firing of Reddit Admin</title><url>https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/3bxduw/why_was_riama_along_with_a_number_of_other_large/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>slg</author><text>&amp;gt;Mr. Jackson, You are an immoral, hate-filled race baiter that has figured out how to manipulate the political system for your own gain. You&amp;#x27;ve personally set back race relations year after year and continue to do more harm than good. Extorting money from companies to line your pockets and threatening to bus in protestors and create a fake racial controversy if they don’t agree to pay you off is NOT civil rights activism. My question is simple; how is your relationship with the illegitimate child you fathered in 1998 while cheating on your wife? Bonus question: How much money have you extorted from various people and companies over the years of practicing your shakedown scheme? Do you think Al Capone would be jealous of your business model if he were still alive?&lt;p&gt;That is the &amp;quot;best&amp;quot; question according to Reddit&amp;#x27;s sorting algorithm.  I think that easily qualifies as &amp;quot;overly disrespectful&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;It one thing to ask tough questions.  It is another to call a man an immoral race baiter, say he set back his cause years, call him an extortionist, chastise him for an affair, and then insinuate he is worse than one of the most notorious criminals in US history all within a single paragraph.  That isn&amp;#x27;t a question, it is a personal attack.&lt;p&gt;I sadly don&amp;#x27;t think it is surprising that a comment like that is posted.  But it is a black eye on the Reddit community that it was upvoted more than any other question in the AMA.</text></item><item><author>Uhhrrr</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t think the questions were overly disrespectful. It&amp;#x27;s an Ask Me Anything, not an Ask Me Respectful Things. And it&amp;#x27;s not the first time someone has called him a shakedown artist or mentioned his out-of-wedlock child.</text></item><item><author>chernevik</author><text>Jesse Jackson had an AMA that did not go very well.  Several of the most upvoted questions were simply disrespectful.  The Reverend&amp;#x27;s answers were mostly boilerplate and often unresponsive to the question.  The AMA seems to have been part of some PR rollout -- Mother Jones had an article three days ago about Jackson taking on Silicon Valley.  The event seems to have failed the rollout&amp;#x27;s objectives.&lt;p&gt;Not a great moment for anyone: The AMA didn&amp;#x27;t always feature the Reddit community at its best, but the Reverend didn&amp;#x27;t show at all well under the spotlight of Radical Transparency.&lt;p&gt;Given all that, the timing and speed of the admin&amp;#x27;s firing hardly seems coincidental.  Reddit seems to have blown up a number of ongoing events, and upset an important chunk of its community, which hardly suggests that her firing relates to some long-term issue.&lt;p&gt;I can see why Reddit might feel the event wasn&amp;#x27;t handled well.&lt;p&gt;But it is also very plausible that Jackson and his camp were deeply embarrassed, and insisted that someone be punished for that.  So plausible, in fact, that I think Reddit really should give some account that demonstrates that this is _not_ what happened -- or admit that it did.&lt;p&gt;It is very surprising that this whole thing hasn&amp;#x27;t gotten more coverage in the tech press.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dikaiosune</author><text>The phrasing is awful, agreed. But as GP pointed out, it is &amp;quot;ask me anything.&amp;quot; further, each of the points raised are the kinds of thing I would expect to be addressed directly in a transparent interview format. Surely that user could have found a more respectful way to phrase it, but asking questions about someone&amp;#x27;s right to a morally superior attitude when that is central to their PR? Not &lt;i&gt;that&lt;/i&gt; out of line.</text></comment>