<story><title>Why We Shut Down Reddit’s ‘Ask Me Anything’ Forum</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/08/opinion/why-we-shut-down-reddits-ask-me-anything-forum.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>imjk</author><text>&amp;quot;We feel strongly that this incident is more part of a reckless disregard for the company’s own business and for the work the moderators and users put into the site. Dismissing Victoria Taylor was part of a long pattern of insisting the community and the moderators do more with less.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;I think this really gets to the heart of it. The moderators of the site only learned of the termination after a celebrity flew out to NY to meet with Victoria and was told that the meeting was cancelled.  As expected, panic ensued among the subreddit&amp;#x27;s moderators. Whether the firing was justified or not, the fact that Reddit&amp;#x27;s leadership didn&amp;#x27;t immediately see the consequences of their action on one of their most popular communities just shows their disregard. Or even worse, they realized the consequences and just didn&amp;#x27;t bother to help facilitate them. I mean these are real people with real meetings spending real dollars for the community, which is all run but volunteers, and Reddit&amp;#x27;s leadership didn&amp;#x27;t feel it was important enough to communicate with them to help avoid unnecessary consequences. I understand the frustration.</text></comment>
<story><title>Why We Shut Down Reddit’s ‘Ask Me Anything’ Forum</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/08/opinion/why-we-shut-down-reddits-ask-me-anything-forum.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>zedpm</author><text>Maybe this will be enough to silence the folks on here who insist that nothing is wrong with Reddit management and that it&amp;#x27;s just a bunch of angry children complaining without cause. The mods in question are adults and professionals, and they&amp;#x27;ve clearly and succinctly explained their grievances with Reddit management.&lt;p&gt;This piece doesn&amp;#x27;t touch on some of the other issues that have angered users, particularly the matter of heavy-handed censorship that appears to be applied inconsistently. That too is a legitimate complaint, one that shouldn&amp;#x27;t be shouted down or conflated with shameful behavior on the part of relatively few individuals in the community.</text></comment>