r/SubredditDrama • u/dannylandulf • Jul 03 '15
Metadrama /r/secretsanta organizer and reddit employee also fired.
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u/nodamncradle Jul 03 '15
What is reddit even doing? Secret Santa and IAmA were, like, two of its biggest things.
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u/devotedpupa Jul 03 '15
They took the edgy teens out, then the IAmAs, then Secret Santa. If dank memes and photos of 90's games go away this will be an empty landscape.
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u/toastertim Jul 03 '15
according to a mod of r/CitiesSkylines, they almost removed a member working with gaming subs a couple months back here
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u/outofband Jul 03 '15
Two of the very few things which people outside reddit talked about in a positive way.
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u/Sportsfanno1 Jul 03 '15
So are u/kickme444 and u/chooter now going to create a new reddit on Netflix or am I confusing this with something else?
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u/buartha Jul 03 '15
Just when you think things can't get any worse, the admins literally steal Christmas
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u/SomniumOv Jul 03 '15
When you fire Santa Claus, you know you fucked up big time.
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u/kickme444 Jul 03 '15
I don't always comment in r/subredditdrama, but when I do it's because I'm referred to as Santa Claus.
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u/Importantguy123 Jul 03 '15
I thought the Fattening was the biggest shitstorm in Reddit history damn did this drama have me sorely mistaken.... Some weird shit is going on at Reddit HQ.
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u/KombatKid Jul 03 '15
They want to hand community organized stuff over to advertisers
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u/thenewmeredith Jul 03 '15
Does this effectively make the name Victoria's Secret Santa
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Jul 03 '15 edited Jul 03 '15
so there's the possibility that all of this doesn't have to do with actions but with layoffs?
edit: looks like they haven't moved u/chooter to the Reddit Alumni section of the team yet. huh.
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u/AlyoshaV Jul 03 '15
damn i got beaten, that's what i get for trying to come up with a cool title
He pretty much directly says he was fired (not quit) on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/kickme444/status/616847081227943936
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u/jsmooth7 Jul 03 '15
WHAT. THE. FUCK.
How fucking tone deaf is reddit management?! AMAs and gift exchanges are a huge part of what makes reddit such a unique place. No where else on the internet has anything like it. You should reward the people who worked hard to make those things what they are today, not fire them.
Like seriously, WTF.
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u/Mattho Jul 03 '15
I mean.. firing is OK. Nothing I can see into.. but
why I am no longer a mod of this subreddit I created
sucks.
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u/master_ov_khaos Jul 03 '15
Goddamn it, now they're just making all the FPHers right about it being the beginning of the end for reddit.
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u/DuckThug Jul 03 '15
Sacking two of the nicest, most competent, employees is sound business strategy. Almost as sound as electing a CEO that was linked to Ponzi schemes.
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u/JTNJ32 Jul 03 '15
Okay. Wow. Let's fire someone who's job was to get the internet together once a year to do something nice for each other. WTF is going on?
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u/[deleted] Jul 03 '15
For those wondering, he was fired a few weeks ago.