Reddit tried to sticky this post for moderators around 12p CST today, and they’ve since tried to bury it. Thought it might be good to back up the link here.

  • cxx@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    As VP he most likely stands to get a decent payout from the IPO.

    It’s easy to think of Reddit as a dictatorship where everyone is deathly afraid of big bad spez, but the reality is that these types of corporate structures are usually completely rotten at the top.

    Let me put it another way: do you think if spez were to be run over by a bus tomorrow, anything would change?

    I’ll ignore your comments about the Nazis before we Goodwin this thread, but dude, what an awful comparison.

    • kava@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Ok maybe I went a little overboard on the comparison - I spent some time reading about the Nuremberg trials because of your comment and how lots of people used the “my superiors ordered me to” as a defense

      My point mainly is - regardless if VP agrees with it or not. He probably does agree with it otherwise he wouldn’t be VP.

      The point is he can’t really contradict the board’s decision regardless. Yes I agree it’s not spez by himself. They’re setting him up to take the fall just like they did with Pao back in the day.

      I’m just saying - VP is just doing his job. He likely doesn’t have much influence, at least on this topic. Spez publicly put his foot down and that’s that. Can’t contradict at this point.

      And I understand “I’m just taking orders” isn’t always a defense, we also must consider that this is totally legal and unethical for them to do. I don’t agree with it - which is why I got off reddit. But it’s their private platform so they’re well within their rights

      Tldr: hate on the board and people who steer the ship imo