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[–]1st_lurker 1093 points1094 points1095 points  (102 children)
Wait for it.... [deleted]
[–]brokendownandbusted 328 points329 points330 points  (62 children)
Lets see how open minded they REALLY are.
[–]Opset 212 points213 points214 points  (50 children)
It's probably in their best interest to leave this post alone. One post will likely get forgotten but, if they delete it, then people are going to go insane with reposting it.
[–]LanceArmstrongsTesti 165 points166 points167 points  (26 children)
They delete any and all Ellen Pao threads that make the front page. There's a huge precedent for it already.
EDIT: I say 'they' because I don't know if it's admins or mods or both. Last one I saw was #1 in /r/technology, #3 on the front page and had a few thousand comments and upvotes before mysteriously disappearing.
EDIT: And of course this is deleted too, because of Rule 3 apparently, "No source newer than two months." It'd be funny if it weren't so fucking disappointing.**
EDIT: Looks like the (R. 3) was removed from the title and this thread is visible again.
EDIT: Only to be deleted again with rules 1 and 5. What a fucking embarrassment.
[–]WangDeRobot 25 points26 points27 points  (18 children)
What were they about?
[–]FireEagleSix 22 points23 points24 points  (15 children)
crickets
[–]Veggiemon 15 points16 points17 points  (6 children)
well that explains it crickets control the media
[–]UnholyTeemo 6 points7 points8 points  (5 children)
Wait, are crickets jews?
[–]Veggiemon 4 points5 points6 points  (3 children)
juice*
[–]_My_Angry_Account_ 3 points4 points5 points  (1 child)
Mmmm... beetlejuice.
[–]tmpick 2 points3 points4 points  (0 children)
It has been eliminated.
[–]propellerpenis 1 point2 points3 points  (0 children)
Yes, they fiddle on the roof.
[–][deleted]  (7 children)
[deleted]
    [–]youknowfuckall 1 point2 points3 points  (1 child)
    I just did.
    [–]LanceArmstrongsTesti 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
    Looks like it was just re-deleted. Title says because of rules 1 and 5, not 3 like the first time.
    [–]Wang_Dong 1 point2 points3 points  (1 child)
    I just clicked to this thread, but it's on the second page.
    [–]LanceArmstrongsTesti 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
    No page now.
    [–]Kynandra 1 point2 points3 points  (0 children)
    [Deleted]
    [–]stillclub 1 point2 points3 points  (0 children)
    Stupid shitty lawsuits non one but the parties involved give a fuck about
    [–]AwkwardTurtle 34 points35 points36 points  (5 children)
    Well, it was deleted from /r/technology because it wasn't about technology. There are plenty of legitimate examples of mod's being unreasonable on this website, but that wasn't one of them.
    It's really not a story that belongs on /r/technology. It's more a "politics that involve someone who is related to a website that sometimes discusses technology" story.
    [–]cougar2013 8 points9 points10 points  (2 children)
    mods is the plural of mod
    [–]AwkwardTurtle 10 points11 points12 points  (1 child)
    Shit.
    My shame will remain visible to all.
    [–]_My_Angry_Account_ 1 point2 points3 points  (0 children)
    [–]LanceArmstrongsTesti 3 points4 points5 points  (1 child)
    It was the third most popular discussion on this user-driven website, why delete it on a technicality? It had the full support of the community. BTW they already fucked this thread too.
    [–]AwkwardTurtle 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
    Because that's not the place for the discussion. It's not a technicality, it's literally the purpose of the subreddit. The only subreddits on this website that remain consistent in terms of quality of content are the ones that take their rules very seriously and always enforce them. As long as the rules are made clear (and in /r/technology the first rule is that posts must be technology related) I'm in full support of posts that break the rules being removed.
    Making exceptions purely because the post had been upvoted a lot is the fasted way to let a subreddit go to shit. Popularity should not be an excuse for a rule breaking post to stay up.
    I don't really give a shit if they removed this post, considering it apparently broke rules. Not to mention it's a shit post that's been all over every relevant subreddit (and several irrelevant ones) already.
    [–]TemptThePuffin 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
    TIR: On May 10, 2012, Erren Pow fied a gender discrimination suit against Kreiner Perrkins which went to trial in rate February 2015 in San Francisco.
    [–]JesusPimpHand 51 points52 points53 points  (17 children)
    Remember what happened when they censored Quinnspiracy and birthed GG? we remember. /r/kotakuinaction
    [–]secondarykip 25 points26 points27 points  (2 children)
    if only they'd left it alone,everyone might have moved on by now.
    [–]Algebrace 15 points16 points17 points  (1 child)
    Change might to definitely. The mods and admins were the sole reason it ever gained traction in the first place and wasnt relegated to some unknown place on the internet.
    thousands of dead comments and dozens of deleted posts generate interest, 1-2 dead posts generates nothing.
    [–]secondarykip -1 points0 points1 point  (0 children)
    Well,if i ever get a time machine i know what I'm doing.
    [–]Zero_Fs_given 27 points28 points29 points  (3 children)
    Whole situation was f'd from the ground up. abused bf releases dirty laundry, people snoop, found some iffy connections, thread deleted, people dug harder, found concrete connections, gamers are dead articles, and gg was born, but that's ignoring tensions from beforehand.
    [–]Low-Key_Lyesmith 10 points11 points12 points  (1 child)
    Honestly, if they admitted to the fact that something was amiss and that favorable coverage was given and that it would be rectified, I doubt GamerGate would have gotten as big. Instead they circled the wagons and took shots at their core audience and now everything is a cluster fuck.
    Edit: fixed a word
    [–]Captinfucker [score hidden]  (0 children)
    And now there are thousands of people studying every single gaming "journalist" looking for any hint of wrongdoing. They made it a lot harder for themselves in the long run.
    [–]loonsun 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
    at was a pretty short and sweet summary of it actually
    [–]Nathan_Explosion7 17 points18 points19 points  (0 children)
    Pepperidge farm remembers.
    [–]ssercomic 13 points14 points15 points  (2 children)
    I feel like GG came out of those articles claiming gamers to be a bunch of assholes. Those journalists (lol) could have just admitted employee misconduct but instead went the bizarre 'fuck our own readership' angle.
    [–]loonsun 8 points9 points10 points  (0 children)
    the three things always seem to be, the articles, the zoe post, and the /r/games censorship. Those seem to be the main 3 things that started it, with a katamari demaci level of buildup since then
    [–]JesusPimpHand -3 points-2 points-1 points  (0 children)
    Anti-gg is the side the "newspapers" are on. But yeah, that's exactly what happened
    [–]klumpp -2 points-1 points0 points  (1 child)
    I can't believe you are still on about that. I guess it keeps the crazies occupied.
    [–]JesusPimpHand 2 points3 points4 points  (0 children)
    We're past Quinn, if that's what you think. We would have never existed if it weren't for the censoring bullshit and lies we were subjected to. How are we supposed to just let that stand?
    [–]thoughtful_taste -4 points-3 points-2 points  (3 children)
    Yeah, they should have allowed the doxxing and witch hunting to stay around. It's not like that's ever caused problems on Reddit before.
    [–]JesusPimpHand 0 points1 point2 points  (2 children)
    Someone has been listening and believing a little too hard. Do you legitimately think all of those 25,000 comments were doxx or calling for the heads of a user? How delusional are you?
    [–]thoughtful_taste 0 points1 point2 points  (1 child)
    Thinking that I was implying all of the comments were in those categories is a quite radical interpretation of my comment.
    [–]JesusPimpHand 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
    Yeah, they should have allowed the doxxing and witch hunting to stay around.
    Really?
    [–]CookieDoughCooter 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
    Aka the Streisand Effect
    [–]zeussays 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
    It was deleted.
    [–]Nigger_McFaggot [score hidden]  (0 children)
    Nobody wants the Streisand Effect.
    [–]nerdzerker 21 points22 points23 points  (9 children)
    3...2...
    [–]MOLDY_QUEEF_BARF 16 points17 points18 points  (8 children)
    [deleted]
    [–]TheCocksmith 12 points13 points14 points  (4 children)
    WHAT DID HE SAY?!?!?!
    [–]slugo17 12 points13 points14 points  (0 children)
    [deleted]
    [–]V3RTiG0 3 points4 points5 points  (0 children)
    [deleted]
    [–]rdav1109 2 points3 points4 points  (0 children)
    [deleted]
    [–]chinesesantaclaus 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
    (Deleto!)
    [–][deleted]  (2 children)
    [deleted]
      [–]RSD12 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
      You say that as if the CEO actively browses reddit looking for this kind of stuff.
      [–]zipeater 27 points28 points29 points  (0 children)
      Well, this sure is something.

      Edit: This is proof everything is shadow banned on reddit:

      Reddit Search for Buddy Fletcher: http://i.imgur.com/c9RALFB.png
      Reddit Search for Ellen Pao: http://i.imgur.com/vFUsYkH.png
      For comparison, other searches:
      Reddit Search for Bill Gates: http://i.imgur.com/n8aGgcA.png
      Reddit Search for Gene Roddenberry: http://i.imgur.com/aCivTbS.png
      reddit (redd·it)
      (noun): a type of online community where users vote on content approved by the Pao overlord..
      [–]Nokade 16 points17 points18 points  (4 children)
      Looks like it was removed from the /r/todayilearned frontpage and it doesn't come up on search.
      [–]1st_lurker 6 points7 points8 points  (0 children)
      It sure as shit was!!!!
      [–]youknowfuckall 3 points4 points5 points  (2 children)
      I just got here on a search. Didn't see front page though.
      [–]devourke 3 points4 points5 points  (1 child)
      I just clicked myself in from the 2nd page of reddit.
      [–]youknowfuckall 2 points3 points4 points  (0 children)
      Now it doesn't show up on a search, for me.
      [–]Gatorboy4life 30 points31 points32 points  (4 children)
      It's not gonna be deleted, it's just gonna be buried by shit like "TIL Steve Buscemi was a fire fighter during 9/11".
      [–]toclafane 2 points3 points4 points  (1 child)
      The Buscemi ones shows up every month. I hope this does too.
      [–]TripperDay 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
      Nope it got deleted.
      [–]ComedicPause [score hidden]  (0 children)
      TIL Keanu Reeves gave his Matrix earrings to the special effects team.
      Every fucking day.
      [–]Kaghuros7 6 points7 points8 points  (0 children)
      It hasn't been [deleted] but it was just removed from the frontpage.
      [–]Lurker3922 11 points12 points13 points  (2 children)
      This thread is already nowhere to be found among today's top TIL posts in spite of its 3k+ upvotes within the past 6 hours.
      [–]1st_lurker 4 points5 points6 points  (0 children)
      # redditwillneverforget
      [–]Secrets7 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
      Yet, Here I am, fresh from finding it on the 2nd page of /r/all
      [–]lrrpkd 5 points6 points7 points  (0 children)
      Reddit gold is probably part of it too.
      [–]vikinick1 44 points45 points46 points  (0 children)
      To be honest, it is a recent source . . . technically against sub rules, but I don't think the mods will delete it.
      Edit: shit, source article is from february 2014, not 2015. I'm wrong.
      [–]DEATH-BY-CIRCLEJERK 20 points21 points22 points  (0 children)
      You would only see "[deleted]" if the OP deleted it himself. There would be no indication just looking at the post that it's been removed by moderators unless 1. It appears on /r/undelete, 2. A moderator explains in the comments why it was removed, 3. A moderator assigns flair to the post explaining which rule it breaks.
      [–]cnot30 37 points38 points39 points  (9 children)
      [COMMENT REDACTED BY ORDER OF MRS. PAO]
      [–]giveitago 59 points60 points61 points  (8 children)
      You just got kung pao'd.
      [–]LanceArmstrongsTesti 6 points7 points8 points  (5 children)
      You just gave me the best idea for a new sub.
      [–]open_ur_mind 13 points14 points15 points  (4 children)
      So it'd be like this one post, then?
      [–]LanceArmstrongsTesti 5 points6 points7 points  (3 children)
      Ideally it'd be a collection of deleted Ellen Pao threads but I'm sure the sub would be deleted.
      [–]_My_Angry_Account_ 4 points5 points6 points  (0 children)
      Have faith little testi. You can do it. Even if you have to do it alone.
      [–]Kraligor 1 point2 points3 points  (1 child)
      ..which gives me the best idea for a new sub.
      [–]Ellen_KaPao 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
      oh... that is much better than what I went with....
      [–]Harry_Tuttle -1 points0 points1 point  (0 children)
      YOU GOT KUNG'D THE PAO OUT
      [–]ChrisCP 5 points6 points7 points  (0 children)
      Well, this post appears the be shadowed off the front page...
      [–]yaipu 5 points6 points7 points  (0 children)
      The mongols
      [–]PAdogooder 2 points3 points4 points  (0 children)
      4 hours and still up.
      [–]oh_bother 2 points3 points4 points  (1 child)
      We still here?
      [–]LanceArmstrongsTesti 1 point2 points3 points  (0 children)
      Nope. Already deleted.
      [–]KamaKaZzie 2 points3 points4 points  (0 children)
      give it another 6 hours or so, the big wigs need to have their little confab first
      [–]hb_alien 2 points3 points4 points  (0 children)
      [–]185139 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
      [deleted]
      [–]moeburn 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
      Someone gave money to Reddit by buying gold, in honor of someone criticizing Reddit.
      [–]TheUPisascam -3 points-2 points-1 points  (1 child)
      957 points and reddit gold to an incorrect prediction. Never change, reddit.
      [–]clinically_alive 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
      It's deleted now :)
      [–]vanillathunder12 327 points328 points329 points  (54 children)
      Ellen Pao is also suing Kleiner Perkins for $16 million for gender discrimination, and current Reddit employees have reached out to Kleiner Perkins to ask if they can be character witnesses against her.
      [–]hiigara 112 points113 points114 points  (14 children)
      Ellen Pao, left, with her lawyer, Therese Lawless
      That sums it up.
      [–]jeff_from_antarctica 87 points88 points89 points  (6 children)
      Therese Lawless (lawyer)
      Damn, that's like being a coder named Michael Cantprogramshit
      [–]uss1701jb 15 points16 points17 points  (2 children)
      Thank god Sargent Cantputoutfirestosavehislife is on the scene of this potentially fatal house fire!
      [–]moumouren 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
      And Buzz Aldrin is piloting a giant spaceship!
      [–]mojoman666 -1 points0 points1 point  (0 children)
      Is that Greek?
      [–]Wild_Marker 9 points10 points11 points  (0 children)
      Or a policeman named um... Therese Lawless!
      Damn it, I'm bad at this shit.
      [–]rpr69 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
      No joke my dentist's name is Sugar.
      [–]Axis_of_Weasels [score hidden]  (0 children)
      or a whore named Krystall Doesntsuckdick
      [–]funkgross 43 points44 points45 points  (2 children)
      Xena's retainer too high
      [–]AllUrMemes 3 points4 points5 points  (1 child)
      Joke of the year 2015
      [–]Farisr9k 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
      No it's not.
      [–]iaojhs 21 points22 points23 points  (3 children)
      Hopefully this thread won't get deleted. I'm not sure if most people are aware of this but, one of Reddit's former admins, intortus, is a SJW and a mod of SRS.
       
       
      He abused his admin powers to consistently delete threads he didn't like and IP ban people he didn't agree with. He is pretty open and proud about abusing his admin powers while working at Reddit in the name of social justice. Pao can abuse her power to silence discussion of this stuff on Reddit. Just take a look at how discussion of GamerGate is silenced in r/Gaming. Hopefully Pao doesn't follow in the footsteps of SJW intortus and begin to abuse her admin powers in the name of "social justice."
      [–]UmarAlKhattab 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
      HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT, DUUUUUUUUUUUUDE
      [–]Soltheron -8 points-7 points-6 points  (0 children)
      lol
      Those darn SJWs taking over the world, one step at a time!!1
      Also, if GangreneGoob shit is censored in /r/gaming, they are doing a fucking terrible job at it.
      [–]ipiranga 31 points32 points33 points  (30 children)
      current Reddit employees have reached out to Kleiner Perkins to ask if they can be character witnesses against her.
      Source?
      [–]EugeneBYMCMB 90 points91 points92 points  (29 children)
      "An anonymous Reddit employee sent a letter to Kleiner’s legal team, asking them to subpoena Reddit employees “for information regarding conflicts with Ellen Pao.” Such information could support the defense’s contention that the person really undermining Ms. Pao at Kleiner was Ms. Pao." Ellen Pao and her husband are both vexatious litigants who deserve to be homeless.
      [–]drfoxxx 44 points45 points46 points  (28 children)
      Great choice for a CEO, how the fuck did she get that job? Who vetted her?
      [–]vanillathunder12 68 points69 points70 points  (21 children)
      I am quoting /u/QhorinHalf-Hand
      Yishan Wong personally hired Ellen Pao Yishan Wong stepped down as reddit CEO because of a disagreement on what color the carpet should be. Yishan Wong says "I hope Ellen becomes CEO". Six days later, Ellen Pao is CEO Ellen Pao offered Yishan a chance at some of the millions from her settlement if he helped her get a CEO position to bolster her case. Ellen Pao is $3M in debt through her marriage as they bought a house they could ill afford... in the spring of 2008 (some poetic justice of fraudsters getting caught up in the financial fraud crisis) Ellen Pao and her husband are being investigated by the SEC and FBI for running a Ponzi scheme. You know. Like Bernard Madoff (but smaller scale). They are being sued actively over mismanagement of $150 million in pension funds. Yishan Wong is criminally liable for accepting a cut of her potential "winnings" an dropping the CEO position for Ellen Pao to take so she'd be more convincing in her court case. Yishan had to do quickly so he jumped on the most ridiculous reason. It's clear the admin who announced this (was it /u/alienth [1] ? ) had their suspicions , the language of the announcement was like "the guy just left... ahem...".
      [–]Great_Chairman_Mao 19 points20 points21 points  (8 children)
      disagreement on what color the carpet should be
      Wait, what?
      [–]Rizzpooch 25 points26 points27 points  (1 child)
      I'm guessing that that's a euphemism for "there's no big reason, just a lot of little petty shit that built up and made people not like his leadership"
      [–]UROBONAR 4 points5 points6 points  (0 children)
      I'm not sure that in this case the given reason is better than a pile of petty shit. It's like, the most anal reason to resign.
      [–]xtrmmnmlst 15 points16 points17 points  (1 child)
      Yishan wanted to move the office to Daly City, the board didn't agree. Yishan's ramblings and rather strange decisions in the months prior didn't influence the board apparently. Highlights include ranting at a former employee (huge lawsuit risk), writing a long-winded blog post about reddit being a new form of government, and introducing reddit's own currency thing, the exact details of which were never publicized, and which was shelved when he left his position.
      [–]za72 1 point2 points3 points  (0 children)
      New form of government!? He is either a genius that I can not comprehend, or he is mistaking brief popularity in the scheme of things to Devine interjection...
      [–]Celidos 3 points4 points5 points  (0 children)
      Really? Yishan stepped down a couple days after a public embarrassment of unprofessionalism when addressing an ex-employee on reddit.
      [–]NebraskaNation 6 points7 points8 points  (0 children)
      Guy wanted shit brown colored carpet. Everyone in the office said "eww, gtfo".
      [–]rogerwilcoesq 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
      Periwinkle?
      [–]hithazel -2 points-1 points0 points  (0 children)
      Shit's made up.
      [–]PM_me_your_successes 29 points30 points31 points  (0 children)
      Motherfucker... I knew his resignation sounded bullshit but now it makes sense. I hope they all get bounced on their asses
      [–]yourmansconnect 3 points4 points5 points  (10 children)
      Huh. TIL. Also, is it weird how little I care about this?
      [–]Passwordwascooch 4 points5 points6 points  (8 children)
      No. This is a website on the internet that is mainly used for lighthearted discussion and casual entertainment. I honestly don't care about the CEO's personal life.
      [–]yourmansconnect -5 points-4 points-3 points  (7 children)
      Right? Everyone's all yelling and what not, and I'm losing my boner with boredom over here.
      [–]Saint947 8 points9 points10 points  (6 children)
      People as apathetic as you are the reason why crooks and criminals are running this website.
      [–]CthulhuFerrigno 5 points6 points7 points  (0 children)
      ...and the world in general.
      [–]za72 -4 points-3 points-2 points  (2 children)
      So start one yourself, no ones stopping you...
      [–]maglegrn0198 -4 points-3 points-2 points  (0 children)
      talking about reddit like it even remotely matters in relation to anything
      just some dumb fucking site people come to waste their time on
      [–]shinyhappypanda 1 point2 points3 points  (0 children)
      I feel like some people take Reddit waaaaaay too seriously. I like some of the discussion, I've gotten some great recipes and makeup tips, and I LOVE the cute animal pictures. But seriously, I'm here for entertainment, not because I think Reddit's somehow changing the world.
      [–]ITCD 3 points4 points5 points  (0 children)
      According to Wikipedia, it's interim CEO.
      [–]EugeneBYMCMB 15 points16 points17 points  (4 children)
      I bet the SJW employees at Reddit love her. I can't imagine why anybody would think for even a second that she is an appropriate choice for CEO.
      [–]lavaenema -4 points-3 points-2 points  (0 children)
      Shut it, shitlord.
      [–]apalehorse -13 points-12 points-11 points  (2 children)
      Have you ever met a woman you thought was capable of being a CEO?
      [–]tomburnes 3 points4 points5 points  (0 children)
      marissa mayer, obvi
      [–]Vunks 2 points3 points4 points  (0 children)
      Meg Whitman
      [–]bartink 23 points24 points25 points  (3 children)
      Wait till /r/kotakuinaction gets wind of this.
      [–]newObsolete 26 points27 points28 points  (0 children)
      Pao has already been discussed over there a number of times.
      [–]JesusPimpHand 8 points9 points10 points  (0 children)
      This is basically a crosspost from our comments section. We dug through it. inb4 subreddit benned
      [–]sweatpantswarrior -5 points-4 points-3 points  (0 children)
      So they can further discuss ethics in video game journalism?
      [–]Cremaster1983 7 points8 points9 points  (1 child)
      Yeah, but a TIL about how someone is "being described as"?? That sounds like a bullshit TIL to me. Didn't even seem like it fits the rules
      [–]vanillathunder12 -1 points0 points1 point  (0 children)
      Not the OP, just a tangential post about someone mentioned in the title. I agree it is a questionable sub to post the article to, but it's not within my abilities to do anything and I am sure the mods will move it if appropriate.
      [–]too_lazy_2_punctuate 1 point2 points3 points  (0 children)
      I was wondering if this is the same woman in that suit. Going by what they've said on the news she sounds like a total cunt who is nigh impossible to work with
      [–]mikek3 206 points207 points208 points  (44 children)
      Wait... he once filed a race discrimination lawsuit, and she filed a gender discrimination lawsuit?
      ???
      [–]shapshapboetie 257 points258 points259 points  (5 children)
      they're probably both narcissistic dickheads.
      that's how you become a CEO
      [–]OswaldWasAFag 34 points35 points36 points  (3 children)
      Water finds its own level. So does vinegar. And the power-hungry.
      Hence we have douchebag science.
      [–]dsoakbc 6 points7 points8 points  (2 children)
      I'm hungry too.
      think I'd hit my Burger King joint for lunch.
      [–]V3RTiG0 2 points3 points4 points  (0 children)
      Can I come?
      [–]Pickledsoul -1 points0 points1 point  (0 children)
      can you get me 2 whoppers and some onion rings?
      [–]BuboTitan 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
      As one of the very few conservative Redditors, it's funny how Reddit is normally so supportive of social justice lawsuits, until, every so often, they see the ugly side of it.
      [–]danwasinjapan 104 points105 points106 points  (23 children)
      Read their history, he used to have a boyfriend, and she had an affair with with a married co-worker at the company she's suing for 16 million, and she's a lawyer herself. It sounds like one of those drama novels.
      [–]simjanes2k 18 points19 points20 points  (20 children)
      This is why SRS is still a thing, isn't it?
      [–]guydudeman -35 points-34 points-33 points  (19 children)
      Actually, ridiculous anti-PC misogynists, racists, and other conservatives and dickheads are why SRS exists.
      [–]OnSnowWhiteWings1 23 points24 points25 points  (3 children)
      I initially subbed to SRS because I thought i'd be fun. But it's just far left radicals using their own form of racism and sexism to battle racists and sexists.
      [–]Captinfucker [score hidden]  (0 children)
      Yeah I never got that logic.
      "People are being hateful towards us" "Lets be even more hateful towards them, that should put them in their place and not start a flamewar that will last forever" "Great idea!"
      [–]guydudeman comment score below threshold-11 points-10 points-9 points  (1 child)
      That's hilarious.
      [–]Spongi 14 points15 points16 points  (13 children)
      I agree with this 100%. SRS is full of "ists". Racist, sexists, etc. etc.
      [–]guydudeman comment score below threshold-12 points-11 points-10 points  (12 children)
      Your logic is backwards.
      [–]Spongi 10 points11 points12 points  (11 children)
      Nope. SRS is a hate group.
      A hate group is an organized group or movement that advocates and practices hatred, hostility, or violence towards members of a race, ethnicity, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation or any other designated sector of society
      SRS is filled with hate, racism and sexism.
      [–]guydudeman comment score below threshold-8 points-7 points-6 points  (10 children)
      That sounds a hell of a lot more like all of the subs that SRS is against.
      [–]Proditus 0 points1 point2 points  (1 child)
      Maybe. My parents always taught me that two wrongs never make a right, though.
      [–]guydudeman comment score below threshold-6 points-5 points-4 points  (0 children)
      Then it's a matter of perspective, then isn't it? To me, it would not be right to allow hate groups to proliferate their hatred.
      [–]Spongi 1 point2 points3 points  (7 children)
      SRS isn't the only hate group with their own subreddit.
      [–]guydudeman comment score below threshold-9 points-8 points-7 points  (6 children)
      They're NOT a hate group. They're specifically AGAINST hate groups.
      [–]joetheschmoe4000 2 points3 points4 points  (0 children)
      gr8 b8 m8, i r8 8/8
      [–]LouieKablooie 1 point2 points3 points  (1 child)
      Link?
      [–]spinlock 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
      Seriously? This is the comment section for the link.
      [–]torknorggren 22 points23 points24 points  (2 children)
      Yeah, the gender suit is ongoing, and big news. NPR spent about 5 minutes on it yesterday. Oddly, you never hear that on Reddit.
      [–]utspg1980 8 points9 points10 points  (0 children)
      PBS newshour had a 5 minute segment on it approximately Monday of this week.
      [–]Kaghuros7 8 points9 points10 points  (0 children)
      Threads about it have been removed from some subreddits, which is probably why you've never heard about it.
      [–]makethemsayayy 41 points42 points43 points  (0 children)
      Yes she wanted money once she was fired for her incompetence.
      [–]lsguy 22 points23 points24 points  (0 children)
      That's two discrimination suits mentioned in the wiki for fletcher. I wouldn't be surprised if after (if ever) Ellen Pao leaves reddit she'd probably file a lawsuit against reddit as well.
      inb4 the, "you're a [ ]ist" pms.
      [–]rando_clown 2 points3 points4 points  (0 children)
      why the question marks?
      [–]InfanticideAquifer -7 points-6 points-5 points  (7 children)
      I know reddit isn't so staunchy libertarian as to think that anti-discrimination laws don't shouldn't exist... so I'm really clueless why everyone's ready to jump down these people's throats for filing those lawsuits without knowing whether or not they were justified.
      [–]nonethewiser 9 points10 points11 points  (6 children)
      She had an affair with a subordinate, then claimed he coerced her into it and that he used it somehow to prevent her from getting promotions.
      [–]InfanticideAquifer -3 points-2 points-1 points  (5 children)
      And that means she shouldn't file a lawsuit?
      [–]nonethewiser 3 points4 points5 points  (4 children)
      It is highly unlikely that her story is accurate. Her former employer wouldn't risk all of the bad press if she had a strong case.
      [–]InfanticideAquifer -2 points-1 points0 points  (3 children)
      You could apply that reasoning to almost every gender discrimination lawsuit and just say that it never happens. Heck, you could apply that reasoning to almost every illegal action ever. "No one would be dumb enough to break the law."
      [–]nonethewiser 3 points4 points5 points  (2 children)
      I don't think you understand what I just wrote. Please read it again.
      [–]InfanticideAquifer -1 points0 points1 point  (1 child)
      I'm reading it as "I think her story is unlikely to be true because, in order for it to be true, her former employer would have had to have performed an action not in his best interest."
      [–]nonethewiser 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
      No, I have no real opinion on the veracity of Pao's claims except from what context I can garner from the coverage of the case.
      What I mean was that if her former employer thought that she would win in court (because her claims were true), they would have settled out of court. This allows them to:
      1. Avoid negative press.
      2. Come to a mutual non-disparagement agreement with Pao.
      3. Not waste a ton of money on legal fees.
      4. Likely settle for much less than $16 million.
      [–]hreiedv[🍰] 71 points72 points73 points  (7 children)
      [–]_disguy 60 points61 points62 points  (6 children)
      Mr. Fletcher’s hedge fund has since been described by a court-appointed bankruptcy trustee as having elements of a Ponzi scheme
      The title of this post is a bit misleading; he's not an 'operator of a Ponzi scheme", rather, he was the manager of a hedge fund that had elements of a Ponzi scheme. Pedantic, I know.
      [three firms] invested a combined $100 million in one of Mr. Fletcher’s funds
      I couldn't find $144 million in the article, this was the only amount I could find for losses. Still a big number.
      This is a more recent article. Some highlights:
      • A judge ruled he owes a former law firm he hired over $2.7 million in unpaid legal fees
      • He owes the IRS $2.7 million from a 2010 tax bill and the state of California, $21,480
      • US Bankruptcy Court judge entered a $140 million judgment against his hedge fund
      • Massachusetts and Louisiana states’ pension fund’s are suing Fletcher as well
      What an asshat.
      [–]jctoastpig 25 points26 points27 points  (0 children)
      Her suit for millions makes more sense now.
      [–]utspg1980 13 points14 points15 points  (3 children)
      how much money do you have to make in 1 year to owe $2.7 million in taxes?
      [–]silverandblack 8 points9 points10 points  (1 child)
      About 7 million. Top fed rate is 40%. Probably made more before any deductions.
      [–]FleenersPeener 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
      That's not quite how tax brackets work so it'd actually be more than $7m, but I am way too lazy to do the math.
      [–]el_f3n1x187 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
      5?
      [–]hodakotb[S] 1 point2 points3 points  (0 children)
      Sorry. I accidentally misread the wikipedia article, which says they were unable to meet the 144 million redemption request. So it appears they were able to partially fill the redemption. Unfortunately, reddit doesn't allow editing of post titles otherwise I'd clarify it.
      As far as the operator of a Ponzi scheme versus manager of a hedge fund that had elements of a Ponzi scheme, I'm just surprised no one has jumped on me for leaving out the article in the title.
      [–]drew1111 119 points120 points121 points  (1 child)
      TIL: Even the CEO of Reddit and her husband are trolls.
      [–]dusmeyedin 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
      Reddit had a CEO, Yishan, who quit a little after he reamed out a former employee in the employee's AmA thread. I remember lots of posters tearing into the CEO because it was unprofessional.
      Looks like we really know how to pick them.
      [–]ProllyH8sYou 76 points77 points78 points  (15 children)
      Never trust a man named "Buddy".
      [–]peppermint_nightmare 34 points35 points36 points  (2 children)
      A name fit only for golden retrievers.
      [–]natural_distortion 4 points5 points6 points  (1 child)
      And the odd cat...
      [–]bubba9999 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
      And elves.
      [–]Oo0o8o0oO 9 points10 points11 points  (0 children)
      Buddy Holly seemed like a nice guy. Buddy Rich on the other hand...
      [–]cfadams 7 points8 points9 points  (6 children)
      I'm not your buddy, pal.
      [–]SeanDoobs 2 points3 points4 points  (4 children)
      I'm not your pal, guy!
      [–]I3eastmode -2 points-1 points0 points  (1 child)
      I'm not your guy, bro!
      [–]verticitatem -2 points-1 points0 points  (0 children)
      I'm not your bro, man!
      [–]flavor_town comment score below threshold-7 points-6 points-5 points  (0 children)
      C-c-c-combo breaker.
      [–]madmutant01 -3 points-2 points-1 points  (0 children)
      I'm not your pal, friend.
      [–]EtriganZ 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
      This is true. State legislator in Georgia named Buddy.
      [–]sethgecko -1 points0 points1 point  (0 children)
      Why does every one from Louisiana, politicians, have to have a nickname. It's not classy b
      [–]taxthrowaway99 -2 points-1 points0 points  (1 child)
      He's a nigger. Don't trust niggers. What it boils down to is the fact they're still animals.
      [–]ProllyH8sYou -1 points0 points1 point  (0 children)
      Roger that!
      [–]NetanyahusATinyDick 378 points379 points380 points  (49 children)
      Most of you would be surprised at just how gamed, and heavily censored, reddit is. Google around about shadow deletions, shadow bans, and brands reddit, inc. seems to protect.
      Their executive staff is certainly not to be trusted. Well, they had a great CEO for a while, but it seems that the board couldn't even keep him in! Refusing a raise after he brings in over $50m in investment and grows site traffic dramatically. Tsk, tsk.
      Now that he's gone, it would appear as if reddit, inc. may be managed by those who possibly have highly questionable ethics.
      [–]ClassyJacket 29 points30 points31 points  (1 child)
      I think you're kinda misremembering how much Yishan sucked.
      [–]kickme444 61 points62 points63 points  (14 children)
      Tell me about it.
      [–]NetanyahusATinyDick 111 points112 points113 points  (11 children)
      Oh, look, the employees/contractors are having a circlejerk in the comments below.
      [–]Sofa_King_Hard 23 points24 points25 points  (1 child)
      Great, whomever gilded this comment just gave the owners some more play money. GOOD JOB, DUMBASS.
      [–]NetanyahusATinyDick 2 points3 points4 points  (0 children)
      ... or used an internal script as a joke, but that's just a silly idea!
      [–]kickme444 7 points8 points9 points  (8 children)
      You deserve it!
      [–]curtdammit 2 points3 points4 points  (5 children)
      Didn't he tell you to get outta here, already?
      [–]kickme444 -5 points-4 points-3 points  (4 children)
      Hey Curt!
      [–]antlong -4 points-3 points-2 points  (3 children)
      Did you dox him?!
      [–]kickme444 comment score below threshold-6 points-5 points-4 points  (2 children)
      Huh?
      [–]tmotom -2 points-1 points0 points  (1 child)
      We don't like your kind around here.
      [–]vollerkreis -2 points-1 points0 points  (0 children)
      We don't like your kind that don't like other kind round here
      [–]NetanyahusATinyDick -2 points-1 points0 points  (1 child)
      Smiles and Sunshine
      [–]kickme444 -3 points-2 points-1 points  (0 children)
      What do you mean?
      [–]Atheist_Ex_Machina -1 points0 points1 point  (1 child)
      Sorry man, miss you in SLC.
      [–]kickme444 -1 points0 points1 point  (0 children)
      Ahhh, me too! Need to come back more often.
      [–]freedom135 61 points62 points63 points  (9 children)
      Yishan was a fucking moron who tried to fire good people just to build some retarded central office palace in california.
      The problem is that any CEO of reddit that tries to make change can only do wrong. CEO want to boost profits, and anything that boost profits will be very bad for the site and community.
      Yishan had some kind of vision of turning reddit into google or something. The problem is if you do that by forcing your employees to quit or move across the country, everyone is going to hate you. It will either happen naturally or not at all, and fucking with employees will make it never happen. Most ceos are narcissists and don't give a fuck about reddit's community and sure as hell doesn't give a fuck about employees.
      [–]bushiz 24 points25 points26 points  (8 children)
      CEO want to boost profits, and anything that boost profits will be very bad for the site and community.
      Reddit is pretty hard in the red. They're desperately trying to monetize any way they can, but saying they do "anything that boosts profits" is disingenuous here because they're more "desperate to get their heads above the water before the venture funding runs out"
      [–]VisualBasic 11 points12 points13 points  (0 children)
      Maybe reddit should raise money by hosting celebrities to shill their latest book/movie/show/pet in the guise of answering personal questions in 5 words or less.
      Oh wait...
      [–]freedom135 -3 points-2 points-1 points  (6 children)
      Reddit is pretty hard in the red.
      That is such a bullshit lie. Reddit makes money. They are hiring new employees because they make money.
      They have a god damn CEO with CEO pay, because they make money.
      If reddit isn't making money, that is 100% by choice. They don't need most of their employees to operate this site.
      [–]hall5714 10 points11 points12 points  (1 child)
      You do not understand how funded companies work. There are many tech firms that don't make money and still do all the things you seem to think require cssh flow positive. It's called investing.
      [–]freedom135 -1 points0 points1 point  (0 children)
      The problem with you is that reddit does making money. They were making money when they sold to conde nast.
      They were making money when they spun off to reddit inc.
      If they are not making money today, that is 100% because they hired employees they didn't need who do things that don't help make more money.
      Not making money by choice doesn't mean reddit isn't profitable, it just means it is ran by morons.
      [–]FistsFullOfSteel 1 point2 points3 points  (1 child)
      You have no concept of how funded tech companies work.
      [–]freedom135 -1 points0 points1 point  (0 children)
      That is such a naive statement.
      Reddit has made money for a long time. When they sold to conde nast and then spun off into their own company, they were making money.
      If they are not making money today, that is because yishan the dumb hired a bunch of useless 'community managers' and blew the bank.
      [–]piezeppelin -1 points0 points1 point  (1 child)
      You are adorably naive about how all of this works.
      [–]freedom135 -1 points0 points1 point  (0 children)
      Maybe you haven't been around for long, but reddit was making money when they sold to conde nast.
      Reddit was making good bank when they spun off a their own company.
      The only reason reddit wouldn't be making money now is because they are over spending on employees they don't need instead of focusing on building an ad network to rival google or facebook and make more money.
      [–]moeburn 3 points4 points5 points  (1 child)
      Is it that fucking hard to start up a community discussion website and let it be neutral?!
      [–]NetanyahusATinyDick 1 point2 points3 points  (0 children)
      It's important to remember that reddit is a marketing platform first, discussion site second.
      [–]amishrefugee 25 points26 points27 points  (17 children)
      I mean, this post is still here so either it's not that censored or the all-seeing Reddit censorship eye only gazes upon the top 25 links, never making it all the way back to page 3.
      [–]NetanyahusATinyDick 30 points31 points32 points  (13 children)
      Nah, there's plenty of censorship here.
      Google around.
      It's not "one eye", it's several groups of people, and it's kind of sad when you learn about it all. :\
      [–]m-p-3 12 points13 points14 points  (2 children)
      /r/undelete is an example of a fraction of what's probably happening.
      [–]NetanyahusATinyDick 7 points8 points9 points  (0 children)
      Aparently it's only the surface, or so says the ex- /r/gaming mod who did the data dump and expose.
      [–]zulxoo -1 points0 points1 point  (0 children)
      Those are posts that were deleted by subreddit mods, not admins.
      [–]MeOnTheInternet 9 points10 points11 points  (5 children)
      Google around.
      How about a hint? What's a good google search term to start with?
      [–]Ice_tail 21 points22 points23 points  (2 children)
      Start in /r/undelete
      Sort by top from all time
      Ask moose
      [–]Rndom_Gy_159 3 points4 points5 points  (0 children)
      Pinging /u/-moose- for his/her Moose-Archive subreddit where everything is stored.
      [–]stillclub -2 points-1 points0 points  (0 children)
      So nothing should ever been removed from any sub?
      [–]morzinbo 2 points3 points4 points  (0 children)
      Look for the modtalkleaks
      [–]guydudeman 1 point2 points3 points  (1 child)
      So, they selectively "censor" some things, but leave /r/greatapes why?
      [–]NetanyahusATinyDick 9 points10 points11 points  (0 children)
      It's interesting how only power users are bringing this to question.
      Neat stuff.
      Censorship is normally brand-related, sometimes policy related, and can be found in the popular subreddits.
      An example, We can't have people knowing that LEGO is one of the world's major polluters!
      Google around. Maybe use www.duckduckgo.com though..., as anything with Google is a touchy issue here too... like questioning if it's a good idea if they should be a cell carrier as well... that had many people shadow banned in /r/technology in no time! Not to mention all the posts asking that simple question.
      [–]LouieKablooie -3 points-2 points-1 points  (1 child)
      What are the main groups? Govt, Corp etc?
      [–]YeastOfBuccaFlats -4 points-3 points-2 points  (0 children)
      The j00z and the SJWs
      [–]Proditus 0 points1 point2 points  (2 children)
      They're probably worried about the Streisand Effect
      [–]LittleHelperRobot 1 point2 points3 points  (1 child)
      Non-mobile: Streisand Effect
      That's why I'm here, I don't judge you. PM /u/xl0 if I'm causing any trouble. WUT?
      [–]Proditus 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
      I'm so sorry, Mr. Robot. I have learned the error of my ways.
      [–]Jeffy29 1 point2 points3 points  (0 children)
      This actually actually explains a lot, reddit has been so stale for last year or two, no big innovation or atleast a revised structure to make threads less toxic/circlejerky.
      All they managed to do in mobile department is to buy Alien Blue, which is a great app (writing from it right now), but it has many flaws that has not been fixed for years and they did little with it so far. And there is no API for integration - if you make a change in mobile app for example hide a post, the post will still remain in web browser reddit. And lets not mention all the server is full messages.
      Reddit succeeded because it was made by really good programmers who figured out many complex algorithms for running this website. It is the structure of Reddit that made it so popular, not which stupid celebrity showed up in AMA. I wonder how many programmers reddit still has.
      [–]1337Gandalf 1 point2 points3 points  (0 children)
      Yishan wasn't at all trustworthy or a good CEO...
      [–]emilskoda 93 points94 points95 points  (0 children)
      RIP OP
      [–]SwggrBck 95 points96 points97 points  (5 children)
      Wow, so it seems this site we all love so much is run by really, really corrupt people.
      [–]WhoopyKush 25 points26 points27 points  (3 children)
      If I were Advance Publications, as a major stockholder I would be putting some very pointed questions to the board of directors that appointed her.
      [–]SwggrBck 6 points7 points8 points  (2 children)
      More like, if all the Redditors went collectively "wtf?" they would listen.
      [–]throwawayfrex 11 points12 points13 points  (0 children)
      A company typically doesn't care what its inventory thinks about them.
      [–]Sofa_King_Hard 2 points3 points4 points  (0 children)
      This would never happen.
      [–]guydudeman -1 points0 points1 point  (0 children)
      As are many other sites out there.
      [–]Pao_is_Mao 15 points16 points17 points  (0 children)
      lol this thread got shadow banned, what a bunch of corrupt fucking mods.
      [–]sandstormdc5 13 points14 points15 points  (5 children)
      Pao previously testified that as a consultant to Reddit, she made $650 an hour.
      [–]Vunks 10 points11 points12 points  (4 children)
      No wonder they are in the red.
      [–]subheight640 0 points1 point2 points  (2 children)
      Its not that outrageous... My consultant fee is around 200 an hour. Pretty standard rates.
      [–]myothercarisayugo [score hidden]  (1 child)
      No it isn't. I called two agencies this morning and asked how much it costs per hour to hire in consultants to do IT work. Was quoted between $45 and $80. Only overpriced suits who "con-slut" charge such ridiculous rates of unsuspecting famous people with deep pockets.
      [–]subheight640 [score hidden]  (0 children)
      And different consultants charge different rates.
      My friend is also an IT consultant and her rate is even higher than mine. I am an engineering consultant.
      One thing is our clients are all cash rich corporations that can afford to pay the rate. 200/hr is a drop in the bucket when their problems cost millions to billions of dollars. Moreover, lots of corporations switched to an "outsourcing" model which we have taken advantage of.
      [–]Pao_is_Mao 11 points12 points13 points  (1 child)
      LOL, mods got scared of being a scapegoat, unbanned this thread. Scared of losing, what power you have?
      [–]LanceArmstrongsTesti 3 points4 points5 points  (0 children)
      Don't worry, it was hidden again under rules 1 and 5 this time.
      [–]kjoro 20 points21 points22 points  (1 child)
      Winston Smith is going to have a busy day at the office tomorrow
      [–]just_a_fool_here 1 point2 points3 points  (0 children)
      Down the memory hole. We've always been at war with Eastasia.
      [–]Zarcnest 10 points11 points12 points  (0 children)
      inb4 thread removed.
      [–]x-naut4 23 points24 points25 points  (14 children)
      Wait, what happened to Yishan?
      [–]QhorinHalf-Hand 71 points72 points73 points  (13 children)
      Yishan Wong personally hired Ellen Pao
      Yishan Wong stepped down as reddit CEO because of a disagreement on what color the carpet should be.
      Yishan Wong says "I hope Ellen becomes CEO".
      Six days later, Ellen Pao is CEO
      Ellen Pao offered Yishan a chance at some of the millions from her settlement if he helped her get a CEO position to bolster her case.
      Ellen Pao is $3M in debt through her marriage as they bought a house they could ill afford... in the spring of 2008 (some poetic justice of fraudsters getting caught up in the financial fraud crisis)
      Ellen Pao and her husband are being investigated by the SEC and FBI for running a Ponzi scheme. You know. Like Bernard Madoff (but smaller scale). They are being sued actively over mismanagement of $150 million in pension funds.
      Yishan Wong is criminally liable for accepting a cut of her potential "winnings" an dropping the CEO position for Ellen Pao to take so she'd be more convincing in her court case. Yishan had to do quickly so he jumped on the most ridiculous reason.
      It's clear the admin who announced this (was it /u/alienth [1] ? ) had their suspicions , the language of the announcement was like "the guy just left... ahem...".
      [–]Prescription_pants 41 points42 points43 points  (2 children)
      Alienth is the head Sysadmin and he quit over the forced relocation. Him being gone is why the site is always going down now. Hueypriest also quit when Yishan left. He is the true founder of reddit and built the culture and ran the place while Alexis galavanted around doing press tours. All the old guard who really cared about integrity and free speech is gone. The rest of the old guard has been diluted by going from 10 employees to 60+. Reddit is on the way to imploding spectacularly.
      [–]myothercarisayugo 3 points4 points5 points  (1 child)
      The Old Guard card nothing about integrity and free speech. In order to get the site going, they posted arguments between each other and even with themselves pretending to be different people. They also heavily edited the site's content to ensure a left-wing slant to the entire thing. They said as much in interviews just a couple of years ago.
      [–]Prescription_pants 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
      That was Huffman and Ohanian, who then sold the site and had nothing to do with it until Ohanian came back recently on the board.
      [–]utspg1980 8 points9 points10 points  (3 children)
      Yishan Wong stepped down as reddit CEO because of a disagreement on what color the carpet should be.
      What???
      [–]MissChievousJ 8 points9 points10 points  (0 children)
      They didn't match the drapes.
      [–]ucfgavin 5 points6 points7 points  (5 children)
      i'm hoping for pound me in the ass prison
      [–]EugeneBYMCMB 14 points15 points16 points  (2 children)
      Buddy wouldn't mind. Prior to marrying Ellen Pao, he was in a gay relationship for ten years.
      [–]ucfgavin 8 points9 points10 points  (1 child)
      well crap, its a win/win
      [–]snaredonk 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
      He WANTS to go to prison! The long con... I'm not even mad.
      [–]just_a_fool_here 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
      Out of context...
      [–]lavaenema -1 points0 points1 point  (0 children)
      From prior affair(s), she will likely welcome it with legs spread.
      [–]HeatherLaFrito 23 points24 points25 points  (0 children)
      Sooo that's where all of our reddit gold is going instead of towards building new servers...
      [–]tahlyn 35 points36 points37 points  (2 children)
      Yeah... this won't last long.
      [–]femaiden 2 points3 points4 points  (0 children)
      I can't believe its still up. Whoever is supposed to catch this sort of thing must be asleep.
      [–]No-Im-Not-Serious 6 points7 points8 points  (1 child)
      The internal emails at reddit right now must be soooo juicy. Like best ever /r/subredditdrama juicy.
      [–]Kaghuros7 1 point2 points3 points  (0 children)
      Someone from reddit actually asked the defense in Ellen Pao's lawsuit to subpoena reddit employees as character witnesses against her. People working in the company clearly dislike her but can't state it openly without repercussions (the person who contacted the defense did so under condition of anonymity).
      [–]lostinthestar 7 points8 points9 points  (1 child)
      how the fuck is this still not deleted and everyone shadowbanned after 6 hours? wake up Ellen!
      [–]Likes_Information 4 points5 points6 points  (1 child)
      I'll see you on the top of /r/all!
      [–]Literatewolf 1 point2 points3 points  (0 children)
      I'll get a keg on the way there.
      [–]imcguyver 5 points6 points7 points  (0 children)
      Strange that this thread is unavailable if you search for "Buddy Fletcher"
      [–]bongowongolongo 644 points645 points646 points  (252 children)
      Right now, reddit is controlled by a cabal of social justice warrior and feminist moderators and their sympathizers while some of its admins are also in on what is going on. Incredibly, Ellen Pao is a social justice nutjob, narcissist, schemer, troublemaker, and gender card hustler who is in total control of this website. How the situation on this site managed to get so bad I don't know. All that I know is that I've been aware of what has been going on for years now and watched it unfold.
      Last month, the subreddit /r/metaredditcancer was created after a user made this comment in /r/AskReddit exposing the SJW cabal of mods and admins controlling large swathes of this website. Reddit's admins inexplicably banned this subreddit and all of its moderators for no apparent reason whatsoever. I have never seen anything like it on reddit and the admins refused to respond to anyone when they were asked why they shutdown /r/metaredditcancer. In its place, /r/subredditcancer sprang up to become the new home of /r/metaredditcancer and the new subreddit devoted to discussing reddit's social justice warrior cabal of users in addition to being a place for discussing Ellen Pao's multimillion dollar gender discrimination trial. I have been posting discussion threads with news about the trial each day now since it started so that subscribers can read about what's going on and talk about it as well. I don't know what reddit's admins were thinking when they shut down /r/metaredditcancer for no reason but doing so only spread the word around about how shitty and corrupt some admins and mods are and to show people just how big a problem they have become.
      Buddy Fletcher was an openly gay black man for at least ten years of his life when he married Ellen Pao. This leads us to assume that he is likely bisexual. Despite being married to Fletcher, Pao had an affair with a married co-worker at the venture capital firm she is currently suing for $16 million over alleged gender discrimination. She was cheating on her husband with a co-worker whom she said that she wanted to marry and have kids with, all while still being married to Fletcher. Some people believe that Pao and Fletcher are in a marriage of professional convenience for the sake of career advancement and power and the fact that they are still married with a child after it came out that Pao wanted to leave Fletcher and marry her co-worker only strengthens this theory.
      Those two links are in-depth stories about both Fletcher and Pao and they explore their marriage in addition to their shady behavior and business dealings. This week in Ellen Pao's trial, the defense was not allowed to mention Fletcher's shady business dealings and so the jury wasn't allowed to learn about how Pao and Fletcher have made a living out of suing people for millions of dollars over gender and racial discrimination. Unfortunately, both the jury and most of reddit's users will never learn about how the person in charge of reddit is a scumbag hustler married to another scumbag hustler who creates drama, plays dirty, and then sues people for millions in order to get herself money and power. Pao said this week that she brought her $16 million dollar suit against her former Silicon Valley employer because she "wanted to end the boys club" at her former employer and also so that she could "level the playing field for women" and create "an environment where people who complained about problems related to discrimination or to other issues would be heard and that the firm would do something about it.” Yeah, she says that is the sole and primary motivation for her suit but her financial situation says otherwise in a big, big way.
      What kind of financial straits was her family in when Pao filed this lawsuit? Bad ones.
      When Pao filed her suit in 2012, her husband was having considerable financial difficulty. Kleiner wants to now submit evidence of a tax lien sent to Kleiner for Pao’s partnership interest, and bankruptcy filings of her family, including her husband. They want to say that because her husband’s hedge fund was doing poorly, her family needed money. Pao’s husband is a bit of a controversial figure, as you may have read in the long Vanity Fair profile of them. He also has a history of being litigious.
      A group of users, including myself, have been watching mods and admins with social justice warrior and feminist bents worm themselves into positions of power on this site and then abuse their power by running their subreddits and this website in a censorship-happy and agenda-driven way that has been pissing people off in recent times more than ever. This 4000 point post in /r/conspiracy from a month ago drew attention to the subreddit cancer that has been metastasizing all over reddit, slowly but surely, for years now and discussion about this very bad development has been going on in /r/subredditcancer since Februrary. The goal of /r/subredditcancer is to raise awareness about this situation that has developed and to hopefully draw enough attention to this development through subscriber growth and good posting so that those mods that can do something about it will take notice and find a way to push the cancerous moderators out of their subreddits. At least one reddit admin or employee has secretly contacted the defense in Pao's trial (Pao's former Silicon Valley venture capital employer) and told them to subpoena reddit employees so that they must talk about what it is like to work for Pao at reddit. This was done to try and aid the defense team against Pao's claims that she was discriminated against on the basis of gender. If subpoenaed reddit employees testify that Pao is hard to work with or for then this will aid the defense's argument that Pao was not discriminated against due to her gender and that she was instead fired because she is a toxic narcissist who is difficult to work with. At least one person in a position of influence on this site is trying to do something about this whole situation. I can only hope that others come around and do something about what has happened to this site.
      The only thing that any of us can really do is talk and raise awareness and try to come up with ways to put a number of subreddits on this site back on the right track.
      [–]morzinbo 9 points10 points11 points  (1 child)
      Now top it off with how the modleaks show that mods of the major subs are censoring and gaming the system!
      [–]DopeBoyG 21 points22 points23 points  (3 children)
      Quick someone archive this.
      [–]1337Gandalf 5 points6 points7 points  (0 children)
      Just archived the entire thread on archive.org
      [–]RubyPinch 4 points5 points6 points  (0 children)
      why don't you?
      [–]Chilangosta 9 points10 points11 points  (0 children)
      r/ShitRedditSays (SRS)—a watchdog community
      lol.
      [–]Literatewolf 4 points5 points6 points  (0 children)
      Cross post this to /r/conspiracy, please.
      [–]iosthrowaway 27 points28 points29 points  (5 children)
      So your comment will probably be deleted shortly then I guess. I'm pretty curious to check this thread again tomorrow.
      [–]wraith313 10 points11 points12 points  (0 children)
      "Check what thread tomorrow?" - All the mods and admins 3-12-2015 @ 11:28pm EST
      [–]Garethp 3 points4 points5 points  (1 child)
      So your comment will probably be deleted shortly then I guess. I'm pretty curious to check this thread again tomorrow.
      People say that, and yet 10 hours later...
      [–]osiris911 18 points19 points20 points  (23 children)
      I read this in Jesse Ventura's voice. Not saying this is conspiracy stuff, just reads like it.
      [–]hairyferry 115 points116 points117 points  (84 children)
      I think you take reddit way to seriously.
      [–]armstad 30 points31 points32 points  (1 child)
      reddit isn't a bunch of dudes in basements anymore. This website has driven change in the real world. It kinda is serious now
      [–]UnpunnyFuns 57 points58 points59 points  (1 child)
      Do people take Fox News too seriously when they mention their issues with Rupert Murdoch? Reddit has millions of users, and I really don't see what's wrong with there being whistleblowers out there doing what none of the rest of us bother putting in the effort to find out about on our own.
      Reddit can lead to big changes. Who knows what sort of impact it has already had and will have in the future. This site basically arguably led the charge against CISPA. If you don't think Reddit is important, then why do you think Obama did an AMA here on election day? If the president of the US thinks Reddit is important, then maybe it is worth keeping tabs on the behind the scenes and not trying to belittle those who do that for us.
      [–]lasercow 189 points190 points191 points  (48 children)
      reddit is serious
      it has an outsized effect on society, and there are all kinds of struggles going on trying to take control of it.
      [–]attentiveanon 8 points9 points10 points  (0 children)
      reddit is serious
      I actually agree.
      Censorship in any form is negative for society. Reddit is one of the few sites where we can speak freely and anonymously amongst users to exchange ideas and information. I have facebook but don't use it because if I make a mistake link something that would even give a glimmer of the idea that I'm an atheist it would have a potential to ruin my personal life with my family and some of my friends. That also includes my job. It would be difficult to prove but yes it would impact my job.
      Reddit is one of the few communities I can come to, to discuss atheism and find support. I believe in the domino effect and hold the opinion that little things such as censoring a few things here and there will fundamentally change the website for poorer in the future. Please don't let that happen, let's all advocate against censorship.
      [–]janeway_tar 6 points7 points8 points  (0 children)
      I'm no conspiracy theorist, and I was reading this thread literally while it was deleted. Idk what that means but it's worrying, imo. This is the place a lot of people come for news instead of CNN or the Washington Post or traditional news outlets. Myself included :(
      [–]Pewkie 15 points16 points17 points  (2 children)
      Given, when your hobby is slowly being destroyed, you might find reason to defend it.
      [–]Be-The-Change 4 points5 points6 points  (0 children)
      Oh how I would love some #ModTalksLeaks about this post...
      [–]KimJongDONGER 33 points34 points35 points  (2 children)
      TIL Reddit has a CEO
      [–]lasercow 2 points3 points4 points  (0 children)
      how interesting
      [–]beefsnorkel1337 23 points24 points25 points  (2 children)
      Wowwww fuck this Pao bitch, and fuck her "husband" too. How fucking SHALLOW and shitty of a person do you have to be to practice the lawsuits, marry someone for everything BUT love...
      I'm so proud that no one I know is corrupted to the core over the simple dollar like these motherfuckers. Good lord.
      [–]vikinick1 13 points14 points15 points  (1 child)
      What do you get when you cross an attorney and a fund manager (in marriage)? This.
      [–]black_brotha 3 points4 points5 points  (0 children)
      She seems like a mess
      [–]indyK1ng 14 points15 points16 points  (3 children)
      I'm keeping an eye on this post to see if they delete it when it hits the front page.
      [–]LanceArmstrongsTesti 8 points9 points10 points  (0 children)
      Right there with you, one more nail in the reddit coffin. It's fascinating to be here for its digg-like death throes.
      [–]secondarykip 1 point2 points3 points  (0 children)
      this isn't exactly new.
      [–]NSAWatchesMe 12 points13 points14 points  (12 children)
      Someone find another Reddit clone. Im ready to jump ship. Digg all over again.
      [–]1337Gandalf 5 points6 points7 points  (0 children)
      Voat is basically a ripoff of reddit, but without the corruption (Yet)
      [–]TooSexyForMyKayak 6 points7 points8 points  (0 children)
      Digg is actually great now. Give it 2 years and reddit will be nothing but a sea of 12 year olds.
      [–]T-Bills 3 points4 points5 points  (0 children)
      We all get gold to cover up this little incident
      [–]Appiedash 2 points3 points4 points  (1 child)
      History repeats itself.
      And Reddit will fall like Digg before it.
      The question is not of when, as it is enevitable. But who. Who will replace reddit? With simple formatting (although you really need RES), easy to digest media, options for customization, user voting, and doesn't have the taboo name "chan" in the title.
      [–]Literatewolf 2 points3 points4 points  (0 children)
      No one at the moment which would be nice. The SJW and other losers can head over to the chans and suck each others dicks.
      [–]Iloveyou-Iknow 2 points3 points4 points  (0 children)
      Prior to his marriage to Pao, Fletcher was in a same-sex relationship with Hobart V. "Bo" Fowlkes, Jr. for more than 10 years
      [–]robinthehood[🍰] 2 points3 points4 points  (0 children)
      "Those evil outsiders taking over our community. "
      Reddit turned into a religious organization overnight.
      [–]Astasis 2 points3 points4 points  (0 children)
      First time on a deleted post. Interesting stuff in the article and comment section. I did indeed learn a lot today.
      [–]Gustomaximus 2 points3 points4 points  (1 child)
      For the votes and time up this post is strangely absent from the front page of this sub. Is it being manipulated by mods or other?
      [–]lokicoyote 8 points9 points10 points  (0 children)
      Incoming 404
      [–]ohitsjustbarney 6 points7 points8 points  (1 child)
      Fuck them. Ruining the retirements of people so she could buy a third car or whatever shitty reason they have for doing what they did is disgusting.
      [–]DAN991199 3 points4 points5 points  (0 children)
      wicked
      [–]AeirsOne 3 points4 points5 points  (0 children)
      TIL, Reddit is a Ponzi scheme
      [–]vigilance108 8 points9 points10 points  (3 children)
      jeez sounds like a scumbag this buddy fletcher... sad makes reddit sad the CEO would marry such a jerk... make me wonder what kind of person she is....
      [–]vanillathunder12 21 points22 points23 points  (2 children)
      Try a google news search for her name...
      [–]Thehulk666 1 point2 points3 points  (0 children)
      Rip
      [–]Amongus 1 point2 points3 points  (0 children)
      Never trust anyone named "Buddy."
      [–]TILightzone 1 point2 points3 points  (0 children)
      I must be dreaming - couldn't find this thread this morning via search..
      What a (sad) mess!
      [–]incident_report 14 points15 points16 points  (22 children)
      Slowly seeing Reddit being pushed into the Shithole the way Digg went. The community has already gone in Shit hole after kids from 4chan and 9gag invaded this place, then the neckbeard , bertha stuff. It was nice knowing you reddit ... :)
      [–]caiada 7 points8 points9 points  (0 children)
      Guys I can't tell if this is a serious thread or not anymore
      [–]Raftvy 15 points16 points17 points  (0 children)
      after kids from 4chan and 9gag invaded this place
      hahahahahahahahahahahahaha
      [–]Awesometron99 2 points3 points4 points  (0 children)
      It'll die in a few years. I can see it already. This place is being overrun by fucking stupid fat feminists after the gamergate bullshit. Just like 4chan with their mods.
      [–]Literatewolf 1 point2 points3 points  (0 children)
      Digg 4.0?
      [–]throwawaycuzherich 3 points4 points5 points  (0 children)
      There's a local rumor that he burned down a building on his multi-million dollar estate that contained incriminating files. The estate is TOTALLY abandoned as far as I could tell from my ventures in and around it, which, by the way, is is cool as fuck. It looked as though the workers had upped and left, there were partially folded clothes, some plaster had fallen off a wall, and the grounds were certainly not being maintained. I think he filed for bankruptcy a few years ago.
      [–]vi_warshawski 2 points3 points4 points  (0 children)
      typical gold digger married to the scammy buddy fletcher.
      [–]tharco 2 points3 points4 points  (0 children)
      Huh...
      Prior to his marriage to Pao, Fletcher was in a same-sex relationship with Hobart V. "Bo" Fowlkes, Jr. for more than 10 years.
      [–]RagingNerdaholic 2 points3 points4 points  (0 children)
      Biggest reddit switcheroo ever.
      [–]iLikeAlmonds 2 points3 points4 points  (0 children)
      "Honey! We finally made front page on that website you made!"
      [–]humanefly 2 points3 points4 points  (7 children)
      commenting just to see if my comment gets deleted along with the thread. I'll also need to check while not logged in, in case there is some sort of "shadow" deleted where, it looks to me as if its still here, but no one who has not commented can actually see it
      [–]Kaghuros7 1 point2 points3 points  (0 children)
      Nothing was deleted, but it was indeed "shadow" deleted within the last hour or so. No longer on the frontpage despite more upvotes than the top 5.
      [–]rdyoung 1 point2 points3 points  (0 children)
      I can still see it
      [–]letsbebuns 1 point2 points3 points  (1 child)
      I can see this.
      [–]secondarykip 1 point2 points3 points  (0 children)
      i can't.
      [–]MarkHartmanIsADouche 1 point2 points3 points  (0 children)
      Jail!
      [–]EdgarAllanChode 1 point2 points3 points  (1 child)
      Sweet jesus this thread has more juicy but forced drama than a reality show. Bitchy CEOs, gender discrimination, reddit being run by SJW? ,Mod drama (of course), can't wait to see how this thread ends.
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