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.
During the Pao days, we were ecstatic when it was announced that that spez will be replacing Pao as CEO. How wrong we were, now it seems like the problem is not with a single person as reddit but with the hivemind of the reddit admins as a whole, a bunch of people completely out of touch with reality.