Ellen Pao Is Stepping Down as Reddit’s Chief
Sometimes internet-hate is completely arbitrary.<p>Maybe she screwed up some things, I don't know, but from reading posts on reddit it felt like an arbitrary cat video going viral - the amount of attention was not warranted by the "causes".<p>Remember PG getting all the shit on twitter because of his misunderstood statement about women?<p>Outrage is a powerful emotion, and people enjoy participating in revolutions when it doesn't require any effort and can be done from the safety of a computer screen.<p>I'm pretty sure 99% of people participating in this shitstorm had no good reason to care about it at all, and did it just because it felt "fun" to participate in something like this.<p>Also - way to teach an angry mob that they can get what they want if they yell about it enough by giving in to their demands.