I think the community have gone beyond the point where an apology from Ellen Pao will be sufficient enough to quell the dissatisfaction users have with Reddit. The only solution I can see is Pao stepping down or being replaced, followed by some actual management policies and ways of keeping the community happen (acknowledging them would be a good start).
The site has been on a downhill slope for a while now and as shown, this isn't a localised incident, a lot of people are not only angry about the handling of Victoria's dismissal, but how the site is being run. Why now? Why is Ellen Pao only apologising for years worth of mismanagement of Reddit after the community took a stand? This goes beyond what just happened, this has been a long time in the making. It comes across as a forced apology because before all of this blackout controversy, they were doing nothing. The community was being ignored, mods were running rampant shadowbanning and removing threads, mad with power. And ironically mods want better tools and more power? The promotion of krispykrackers just goes to show how out-of-touch Reddit has become with its users.
It's great that they're acknowledging there are issues and that they will do better, but I think it is too late. Maybe I am wrong, but I just can't see things getting better or if they do, staying better for long. I have moved over to voat.co and when it comes back online, my 8 year old Reddit account will be nothing more than an effigy to a site that was once great. I personally have nothing against Ellen, the whole problem with Reddit goes well beyond her and members of the community also share in the blame. The centralised approach Reddit takes to management is its downfall and if they're not careful, we could see what happened to Digg when they messed over power users happen to Reddit as well (evident by the influx of users over at voat.co).
The site has been on a downhill slope for a while now and as shown, this isn't a localised incident, a lot of people are not only angry about the handling of Victoria's dismissal, but how the site is being run. Why now? Why is Ellen Pao only apologising for years worth of mismanagement of Reddit after the community took a stand? This goes beyond what just happened, this has been a long time in the making. It comes across as a forced apology because before all of this blackout controversy, they were doing nothing. The community was being ignored, mods were running rampant shadowbanning and removing threads, mad with power. And ironically mods want better tools and more power? The promotion of krispykrackers just goes to show how out-of-touch Reddit has become with its users.
It's great that they're acknowledging there are issues and that they will do better, but I think it is too late. Maybe I am wrong, but I just can't see things getting better or if they do, staying better for long. I have moved over to voat.co and when it comes back online, my 8 year old Reddit account will be nothing more than an effigy to a site that was once great. I personally have nothing against Ellen, the whole problem with Reddit goes well beyond her and members of the community also share in the blame. The centralised approach Reddit takes to management is its downfall and if they're not careful, we could see what happened to Digg when they messed over power users happen to Reddit as well (evident by the influx of users over at voat.co).