> Also, ceo of reddit looks like a horrid job.

You could not pay me enough to be CEO of that cesspool. People take Reddit way too seriously.

Not as seriously as The New York Times, which has been guilty of far worse gaslighting.

Walter Duranty and The New York Times were enough to make Ukranian survivors of Holomodor thought of as crazy in this country for about 50 years: http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2010/07/crimes_of_th... Think about that next time you read about how Google and Facebook are going to tell you which sources are fake news and which aren't. Or not actually tell you, just put all the blacklisted ones down a memory hole.

The NY Times apologized and agrees with the critique that its reporter was terrible:

The Times sent von Hagen's report to the Pulitzer Board and left it to the Board to take whatever action they considered appropriate.[27] In a letter accompanying the report, New York Times publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr. called Duranty's work "slovenly" and said it "should have been recognized for what it was by his editors and by his Pulitzer judges seven decades ago." (from Wikipedia)

They can apologize, but a quote from the last line of the article:

> For that I will never forgive the New York Times.

In 50 years time, what disinformation that they are spreading today will they 'apologize' for?

Some do, most don't, I just enjoy it for what it is.

Would you rather be spez or moot?

Moot. You know he signed up for that and has continued to make 4chan what it is. Spez is trying to un-4chan reddit and catching a lot of flack for it.

I would rather be a person who voluntarily runs a cesspool than be a person forced to run one.

I mean, he's not /forced/. He was done with reddit.

But he just couldn't quit.

This is like being asked if you want to be shot by a cannon, or 100 guns.

In this context the correct analogy would be "one cannon-sized gun, or 100 gun-sized cannons."

It is not important to take reddit seriously

It is serious, though, to not discount reddit as important.

The point is that you shouldnt, generally speaking, take reddit as a serious place (puns, memes, trolls, inside-jokes, meta, etc) -- but it is HAS accomplished something very significant; actually achieving being the Frontpage of the Internet....

Look at the chaos and beauty that reddit's userbase can create...

Dont take reddit seriously - but take the people who use reddit serious. Seriously.

if you can leverage them as a LOIC you can achieve some amazing things --- or fuck up really bad...

Look, I get that being lambasted by your base sucks, but yes, being the boss means you have to keep your cool and not abuse your power, as difficult as that is. The job demands you have a superhuman temperament...and he definitely is human, but that shouldn't excuse his behavior.

It would also be perfectly reasonable to bulk ban anyone suggesting the reddit ceo is a pedophile, plus any subreddit that tolerated it. Using reddit does not give you the right to abuse people that way.

What he did -- which I can't really tell, because something about pizzagate, and the whole thing is just too dumb to care about -- was probably dumb, but whatever.