[Happenings?] Three subreddits have gone private - /r/gaming, /r/science, and /r/IAMA

dimsumx · 4時間前

darksage69 · 4時間前

Ho-Ly fucking crap.

Looking from some of the comments I'm seeing, including one that said that Victoria was willing to do the AMA's scheduled today regardless of pay, I'm having trouble swallowing even a remote chance that it was her quitting.

This was sudden, because no one 'has a team in place' that doesn't involve keeping the current schedule going on without this being sudden and unexpected. The burning question is, why? I'm not really a big AMA reader (I never really got caught up in that whole 'celebrity' stuff, so I tend to sit out of the loop a lot there), but this just reeks of something fishy.

HexezWork · 4時間前

All out rebellion from mods of the biggest subreddits to the Charmain Pao gestapo admin crew for the firing of Victoria.

They tried to make an anonymous forum "corporate friendly" you get what you deserve, you can't fight the streisand effect.

HA! Burn it all down you pro censorship motherfuckers!

Petrarch1603 · 4時間前

I moderate /r/DowntonAbbey, should I make it private too?

MannoSlimmins · 4時間前

Because i'm going to be heading out soon, please use the following website:

http://www.randalolson.com/apps/default_subreddit_status.html

That has the current default subs that are private

MrPejorative · 4時間前

Not that anything looks good for Pao, but firing a woman, who as far as I can tell was well liked by the community can't look good for such a champion of diversity and feminism.

Storthos · 4時間前

Pao wants to sell reddit. Victoria kept corporate shilling to a minimum. Ergo, she had to go.

NotEnoughCooks · 4時間前

I got $20 that the "new" AMA is going to be nothing but another PR junket piece. Not that it wasn't basically the same thing at this point anyway. But just watch. Softball questions that no one here asked. They'll all be screened by the "team" and then asked/answered in a single post by the admins.

StayingOccupied · 4時間前

Oh man Voat is folding under the pressure again

ElzevirAuxiliatrix · 4時間前

So it begins.

Masterdoctorn7 · 4時間前

That is very weird 0.o I wonder what the "reorganization" means on like how much it will "change".

SpeakLikeAChild04 · 4時間前

This is like War Games between the reddit admin hierarchy and the power mods.

 Shall we play a game? 

 Love to. How about global thermonuclear reddit war?

 Wouldn't you prefer a good game of chess?

Akudra · 3時間前

The best way for KotakuInAction to protest this action is to remain open and talking about it as all the major subs go dark. Has that nice "I'm not locked in here with you, you're locked in here with me" feel to it.

AleisterJowley · 4時間前

I do have a sort of perverse satisfaction from knowing that all of our concerns over the new Reddit regime were completely warranted.

Fight on, friends.

Seruun · 4時間前

If I were a shareholder of reddit I would try to have chairman pao fired for damaging the value my property with her poor business decisions.

dvidsilva · 4時間前

Admin responses are a joke, they don't give a shit at all for the community.

take a look at / u /kn0thing 's childish responses

Jamesbuc · 4時間前

/r/circlejerk too has gone private (with a parody message of the IAmA message)

Edit: Also /r/art

TheHat2 · 4時間前

/r/movies and /r/history are private, too.

NotEnoughCooks · 3時間前

/r/videos just went private

This is the day where reddit learns whether or not it can just shit on the people that made it a success and have them keep coming back.

TehRawk · 4時間前

a message from the moderators of /r/history

In light of recent developments in reddit staff change and our own troubles in getting the proper support we need from reddit as a company we are setting this subreddit private. We will open up to the public again once we have figured out what course we want to take in the future. The events of today have contributed to this decision but are not our main reason for taking this action.

A protest perhaps. On behalf of the IAMA person.

Inteliguard · 4時間前

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Fenixx117 · 2時間前

At first I was wondering why KiA was not going black but since we are already being shadowbanned as an entire subreddit, I say fuck 'em. KiA is now homebase for people to rally around and find out what the fuck is happening.

SJW's are a disease

fullhands · 4時間前

Guys at Voat have a full list of subreddits set to private.

https://www.voat.co/v/MeanwhileOnReddit/comments/193855

ReLiC71 · 4時間前

If AdviceAnimals and Funny go too, I will die of laughter

zeissbickham · 4時間前

We can conjecture all we want, but we really need Victoria's side of the story if any of this is going to resemble any semblance of the truth.

Admittedly, it looks pretty bad for reddit though. Let's hope there's no NDA nonsense preventing her from sharing her side.

chintzy · 4時間前

This is not the first time an interview has gone badly in the history of PR, or even reddit. Seems like the wrong choice if her leaving is related to the Jesse Jackson AmA. We don't know the exact circumstances that led to her leaving reddit. But I think it's pretty clear to most that the site is very badly managed by the admin team and this sort of mod protest was a long time coming.

Draconilian · 4時間前

So, what are we naming this? The Day Reddit Stood Still? Digg 2, The Redditing? just RedditRevolt part two?

nightmare901 · 4時間前

/r/Askreddit, /r/movies, /r/science and /r/IAMA all gone private?

Reddit is kill.

This kills the reddit.

wwwwwwwwwwwwwwq · 3時間前

Reddit admin /u/kn0thing's response to the situation: "Popcorn tastes good."

https://archive.is/R2row

Information_Landmine · 2時間前

Don't know if it's related, but /r/punchablefaces has just been banned.

wrathborne · 4時間前

I think theres a chance that this re-org bullshit and the firing of Victoria may all be related to Jesse Jacksons /AMA

https://voat.co/v/politics/comments/193154

Logan_Mac · 1時間前

WE HIT /r/all ALL ABOARD THE HAPPENING TRAIN

ElzevirAuxiliatrix · 4時間前

This is either one of two things:

The moderation teams of these subreddits are locking down in protest of the whole /ama/ drama. This is hilarious if true.

These subreddits are being closed temporarily while Administrators are sterilizing the moderation team to ensure that future conduct on said subreddits match more closely with the administrator teams ideology. Meaning that the future of those subreddits will eventually mirror the kind of hell-blasted landscape we know as SRS.

The most important thing to know is, because reddits structure is a volunteer-moderator system and not a employee-moderator system, Reddit actually has very little control over its website. Because its reliance on moderators, the administrator team is mostly powerless in dealing with problems without them. In any case, right now it the time to bomb front-page with links to V-O-A-T.

Logan_Mac · 1時間前

The guy who did the top voted question on the Jess Jackson AMA just got shadowbanned

https://imgur.com/TpNZ2jQ

NotEnoughCooks · 3時間前

Hopefully, much like /pol/, everyone will have to choke back the tears and think to themselves, "/r/KotakuInAction was right".

Inuma · 3時間前

Define irony...

Reddit decides to fight SOPA with a Dark Day...

One year and a half later, they have a Dark Day themselves...

ilovecreamsoda · 3時間前

LOL Reddit is burning

hey, /u/kn0thing - fire /u/ekjp

Protosega · 4時間前

The people who were not part of the FPH angry mob are now mad because of this....

They just pissed off everyone and this is great for bitcoin.

ShadowCabal · 4時間前

"Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning."-Winston Churchill

AIR-CAV · 2時間前

Political scientist here. It amazes me how authoritative leadership structures regardless of ideology follows the same formula of collapse. Its almost laughable how easy it is to predict leaders actions and the blow-back from the people/community. God I do love watching this!

Fenrir007 · 4時間前

From what I understand, this woman was someone essential for AMAs, but was suddenly sacked from Reddit without a cause. There is now a commotion because no one was given a warning in advance so they could rearrange the already scheduled AMAs, as well as for the fact that they really liked her. People also seem discontent with reddit's completely absent admins to help with ongoing AMAs or just generally make some sense of this lunacy. That more or less it?

It's definitely amusing, though I don't particularly care beyond watching the fireworks. I don't see this affecting us in one way or another. Unless you guys wanna go private, too, as a way of showing solidarity (and I, personally, don't care or mind).

By the way, if you go private, can already subbed people still use the sub?

Theawesome67 · 3時間前

/r/ninjago mod here, its a small sub, but we have made it private.

MerchantHunter88 · 4時間前

So basically Chairman Pao is responsible for the death of reddit due to her censorship?

This feels like Digg all over again....

RIP free speech. Hello protected corporate speech and SJW marxist hugbox.

Low-Key_Lyesmith · 4時間前

THE FIRE RISES!!

NotEnoughCooks · 3時間前

I'm just waiting for /r/gonewild to go.

BewareTheSuperman · 2時間前

In other news, hundreds of "journalists" are now shitting their pants, realizing they won't be able to rip stories from Reddit's front page until these issues are resolved.

uberwolf0 · 1時間前

This is fun. As much as I enjoyed living in Rome I also love watching it burn. ;)

AleisterJowley · 4時間前

Somethings fucky . . .

DeadGamerWalking · 4時間前

Lol the pinned post on /r/de is asking everyone to go on voat if reddit is in ruins tomorrow

firex726 · 3時間前

As mod of /r/SportsBra I stand with them.

Deathcrow · 2時間前

Guess which large Subreddit (that is also modded by an admin) is not going private:

https://archive.is/38e2f

Geee. Color me surprised.

We, as a subreddit, try to stay out of reddit politics as a whole and this means avoiding participating in site-wide protests

HAHAHA. My bullshit-o-meter just went through the roof.

Edit: Wait... Deimorz isn't a mod anymore on r/games? When did that happen? Well doesn't really matter, Piemonkey might as well be one too.

cha0s · 4時間前

Well, that escalated quickly.

RastaVampireDude · 3時間前

/r/imgoingtohellforthis also went private

Bolththrower · 3時間前

THE DARKENING! ITS A REVOLUTION!

BynnTheBreaker · 1時間前

Mod of /r/timanderic just gave the sub to /pol/

Topkek

fireforfear · 1時間前

I don't know if the Jesse Jackson thing WAS the cause, but I PMed chooter this morning asking her that very question.

Me: This didn't have anything to do with the Jesse Jackson thing, did it?

What's next? Where will you go? Can we help?

chooter: Not as far as I know! I don't know what's next, but I will always be here for you guys. I promise.

Draconilian · 4時間前

Wow, what a day.

b1khoa · 4時間前

This shit-storm gonna be a lot bigger than the fph ban.

Jayhawk519 · 3時間前

What a time to be alive gentleman.

Petrarch1603 · 2時間前

Fuck it, add /R/DowntonAbbey to the list

Wolfbeckett · 4時間前

Just happened to AskReddit too.

azriel777 · 4時間前

I am expecting another 4chan incident where a lot of mods and sub forums are about to be let go/closed. Everybody remember to go to VOAT (which is being flooded with new members as we speak) as a backup in case KIA ends up on the purge list.

ggburner23 · 4時間前

This is scary. Whatever the "administrative personnel change" is, I hope it doesn't affect KiA.

SigmaTheDJ · 4時間前

/r/askreddit too by the looks of things. I saw someone post a link to a thread in there on Twitter which was asking why Victoria was fired, but when I clicked on it it said that the sub was now private.

TehRawk · 4時間前

Anyone know exactly what happened with /u/chooter? Did she resign or was she fired, and why?

PM_Squid_Lulu_R34 · 4時間前

/r/AskReddit just shutdown

Magyman · 4時間前

So is there anywhere to do what we do best and shitpost to help out?

Lo-Ping · 3時間前

/r/sexwithbears is gone

I won't survive this

totally_professional · 3時間前

This is HUGE! It was about time we had a full blown protest against Pao, and i think that this is definitely the right way to do so!

Lucky0Looser · 1時間前

My original comment was deleted because it contained a link to the Google cache of the AmA with Victoria. I have substituted that link with a link to an archived version and resubmit my comment here again.
Link to the original comment in case the mods "undelete" it:
https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/3bxhxf/happenings_three_subreddits_have_gone_private/csqgjw4

Victoria handled most if not all of the high profile AmAs and is considered by many one of the reason r/IAmA developed into one of the flagship subs of Reddit. Bill Gates and Barack Obama among many others did a high publicity "Ask me Anything'" there.

Here is the Google cache of the AmA she herself did 04 Sep 2014

The admins of Reddit have a [A] next to their username, the user Chooter (Victoria) no longer sports one, showing that she no longer is an admin.
Archive of her user page: https://archive.is/Gxm3Y

Archive r/IAmA is private: https://archive.is/OlI6V
Archive r/science is private: https://archive.is/Z7reH
Archive r/movies is private: https://archive.is/w1hHX

/u/karmanaut one of the mods of IAmA, comments on the letting go of Victoria and on why the sub is set to private (From the discussion thread "Why has R/Iama been set to private?" in r/OutOfTheLoop)

Today, we learned that Victoria was unexpectedly let go from her position with Reddt. We all had the rug ripped out from under us and feel betrayed. Before doing that, the admins really should have at least talked to us (and all the other subs that host AMAs, like /r/Books, /r/Science, /r/Music, etc.) We had a number of AMAs scheduled for today that Victoria was supposed to help with, and they are all left absolutely high and dry (hence taking IAMA private to figure out the situation) She was still willing to help them today (before the sub was shut down, of course) even without being paid or required to do so. Just a sign of how much she is committed to what she does. The admins didn't realize how much we rely on Victoria. Part of it is proof, of course: we know it's legitimate when she's sitting right there next to the person and can make them provide proof. We've had situations where agents or others have tried to do an AMA as their client, and Victoria shut that shit down immediately. We can't do that anymore. Part of it is also that Victoria is an essential lifeline of communication. When something goes wrong in an AMA, we can call and get it fixed immediately. Otherwise, we have to resort to desperately try messaging the person via Reddit (and they may not know to check their messages or even to look for these notifications). Sometimes we have to resort to shit like this (now with a screenshotPNG because I can't link to that anymore for you) where we have to nuke an entire submission just so that the person is aware of the problem. Part of it is also organization. The vast majority of scheduling requests go through her and she ensures that we have all of the standard information that we need ahead of time (date, time, proof, description, etc.) and makes it easier for the teams that set up AMAs on both ends. She ensures that things will go well and that the person understands what /r/IAMA is and what is expected of them. Without her filling this role, we will be utterly overwhelmed. We might need to scrap the calendar altogether, or somehow limit AMAs from those that would need help with the process. We have been really blindsided by all of this. As a result, we will need to go through our processes and see what can be done without her. Tl;dr: for /r/IAMA to work the way it currently does, we need Victoria. Without her, we need to figure out a different way for it to work.
https://archive.is/9jFFk,

Update #1:
On a Voat discussion thread one of the theories advanced for the firing of Victoria was the recent disastrous AmA with Jesse Jackson and that Victoria possibly muddled up and answered the wrong questions. Here for example Jesse Jackson does not seem to answer the posed question and from his standpoint, he probably should not have engaged at all:
Screenshot of Question: https://i.imgur.com/jYe4CXm.jpg
Discussion on Voat: https://voat.co/v/MeanwhileOnReddit/comments/193062

However /u/karmanaut claims to know why Victoria was fired and it was not the AmA with Jesse Jackson. But as to why, he keeps the cat in the bag
Third comment from the top: It doesn't have anything to do with that.
https://archive.is/Kxqia

Edit: Article in the Dailycaller "Reddit Ask Me Anything Goes Horribly Wrong For Jesse Jackson"
http://dailycaller.com/2015/07/01/reddit-ask-me-anything-goes-horribly-wrong-for-jesse-jackson/

Update #2:

A statement by /u/nallen a mod of r/science

I fully support this decision to shut down /r/IAmA, letting Victoria go is a slap.
To back this up, I am the mod in /r/science that organizes all of the science AMAs, and I am going to have meaningful problems in the /r/Science AMAs, Victoria was the only line of communication with the admins. If someone wants to get analytics for an AMA the answer will be "Sorry, I can't help."
Dropping this on all of us in the AMA sphere feels like an enormous slap to those of us who put in massive amounts of time to bring quality content to reddit.
I personally feel like shutting /r/science down as well, that's how much of a bad taste this leaves.
https://archive.is/QxQGj

Update #3:

On Voat it is claimed that the shutdown of r/IAmA happened during a live AMA:

[–] physicscat 1 points (+1|-0) 1 hour ago
This all happened, apparently, during an AMA. The subreddit went private during the AMA.

[–] userexec [S] 1 points (+1|-0) 1 hour ago
That's correct. And ten minutes before another AMA was to begin. It was with Paul Elio of Elio Motors (that little 3-wheeled car that's supposed to be produced in the old Hummer plant). He hasn't said anything publicly unlike the Berkeley professor, but from what I've heard he was unaware that anything was up as well. Ended up rolling with the punch and going to /r/AMA instead but the turnout was tiny.
https://voat.co/v/MeanwhileOnReddit/comments/193062/569598

Update #4:

The AmA from Berkley Professor Edward Frenkel (Mathematician, UC Berkeley professor, filmmaker, author of a New York Times bestselling book 'Love and Math' -- soon in 17 languages) was interrupted by r/IAmA going private:

A tweet by him:
Details on the shutting down of @reddit_AMA in the middle of my AMA:
All this sounds really bad and unprofessional.
https://twitter.com/edfrenkel/status/616662322623459330

Update #5:

/r/circlejerk has also gone private with the following note:
Archive: https://archive.is/7FDJo

a message from the moderators of /r/circlejerk
thankmsvictoria
Due to internal administration reorganization at circlejerk, /r/circlejerk has temporarily been made private by the moderators. We will be using this time to restructure our process for jerking. If you have any concerns, please contact circlejerk at: berniesandersforpresident at reddit.com
To message the moderators of /r/circlejerk directly, please click here.

^email ^address ^and ^other ^identifying ^information ^removed

Update #6:

Comment by kn0thing (Alexis Ohanian, Reddit co-founder) on SRD in the thread "/r/IAmA set to private over mod firing"

[–]kn0thing [score hidden] an hour ago
Popcorn tastes good.
https://archive.is/hOWHd

Edward Frenkel (the UC Berkley Professor who coulld not finish his AmA due to r/IAmA going private) retweeted the following tweet by Michael Smith
Here's what the co-founder and exec chairman has to say about this whole situation: Popcorn tastes good
https://twitter.com/msmith122/status/616758003128266752

Update #7:

Atko (the admin and founder of voat.co) says: "We are currently seeing a major spike in traffic"
https://voat.co/v/MeanwhileOnReddit/comments/193897/570604

Update #8 at 01:40 GMT:

List of 62 Subreddits who have gong private over IAMAgate at this time

Source at Voat: https://voat.co/v/MeanwhileOnReddit/comments/193855
Archive: https://archive.is/6NBg6

Update #9 at 01:45 GMT:

User Magnar of Voat tries his hand at prophecy:
[–] Magnar 94 points (+94|-0) 2 hours ago
I have a feeling Voat is going to see another large wave of users join over the coming days... Brace yourself Atko, redditors are coming! https://voat.co/v/MeanwhileOnReddit/comments/193855/570184

Update #10 at 02:00 GMT:

For a few seconds "The service is unavailable" for https://voat.co

Update #11 at 02:05 GMT:
Voat is buckeling under the load. Two more times "The service is unavailable" but the site came back up again after all.

Update #11 at 02:10 GMT:

Exclusive footage from the server room of Voat:
http://i.imgur.com/Wb4grzW.gif

Update #12 at 03:20 GMT:

Voat is under heavy load. Please try again in a few minutes.
https://archive.is/vNJOt

Logan_Mac · 1時間前

/r/GTAV down 163.000 subs

SistaSabuda · 1時間前

https://i.imgur.com/c7SNTR8.jpg. How prophetic.

Does this mean we can't look forward to Reverend Al's AmA?

Also, everyone, be sure say hi in your posts to the lonely girls and betas in SRS.

grangach · 1時間前

I never liked fph but this is exactly the kind of thing I feared.

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