Reddit is used to brawls between its 57 million daily users. Now its keyboard warriors are directing their ire at its CEO, Steve Huffman. Thousands of moderators overseeing the site’s so-called subreddits are on strike. It’s a wrinkle in Reddit’s plan to go public, and a sign that plan is premature.
I’m okay with him being portrayed as incompetent but I agree spez is far more malicious than he is a bumbling idiot
You can be both an idiot and malicious. Seems that’s what is going on here tbh.
The terms I see in my mind are greedy and incompetent.
Incompetent in management. Planning, decision-making, communication, leadership, of understanding what Reddit has, what it is, what its’ strengths are. Every time he does something - or neglects to act - the thing that made Reddit special erodes further.
Incompetent emotionally. The hotheaded knee-jerk pattern of lying, gaslighting, redirecting blame and name-calling we’ve seen through the years.
This, combined with greed and his stupid, damaged worldview and political stances, is a volatile cocktail that does stink of maliciousness.