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[–] xpdx [S] 0 points 6 points (+6|-0) ago 

I think this whole Reddit revolt really is a huge misunderstanding. That doesn't excuse it or make it better but it does put it in a different perspective. It seems like some of the folks running Reddit really haven't taken the time to get to know the community, the subtleties, the grungy lovely chaos of it all. It's just too easy to say "It's haters and misogynists and racists and assholes." Well, yes, there are those people, but there are other people too and they have legitimate complaints. Lumping them in with 'the haters' and then dismissing them as irrelevant doesn't really endear them to you.

This regime at reddit seems to think they are fighting against haters when they are really fighting against many different small groups that in the end make up the reddit community. As a leader of a company I imagine it can be easy to blame haters for your problems, after all an online community can be a vicious, nasty, clicky, and unforgiving place (much like the rich boys club at a VC firm cough cough) - but just like any culture you can't come in and lay your own value system on top of it and start judging people and complaining that they don't fit your ideas of what is correct. Or rather you CAN, but you can't without a lot of pushback, which is what we see here. Ultimately it's a self defeating strategy.