If you are an internet baby, you may be aware of a site called Reddit. It is an entertainment, social networking, and a news website where the community members can submit their content (text posts or direct links) which makes it more like an online bulletin board system. The registered users can vote up for this content, which determines the position of that content on the site’s pages. These content entries are referred to as subreddits, which includes news, gaming, movies, music, books, fitness, and food.
Reddit’s key feature, Ask Me Anything (AMA) feature is down because of the departure of its employee, Victoria Taylor who was the Director of Talent.
The director of talent, Victoria Taylor who handled this key feature of Reddit has announced her departure. In her Reddit thread, she was quoted as saying that she was dazed and hopefully plans to stay in the PR field. Following this news, many subreddits have gone ‘dark’ and turned their settings to Private (which doesn’t enable any other person to see that content), as a sign of revolt.
Taylor’s job was to coordinate this site’s popular AMA feature. One of the popular AMAs was with Barack Obama. This feature became of utmost importance that Reddit incorporated it into its own app. “We have been really blindsided by all of this. As a result, we will need to go through our processes and see what can be done without her,” said Karmanaut, one of the Reddit users.
Alexis Ohanian, Executive Chairman, and Founder of Reddit exclaimed that they do have a team to handle AMA requests in Taylor’s absence.
Reddit users have taken over Twitter to express their discontent because of this news.
Here are some of the tweets:
Daaaang. @reddit let Victoria go? She was literally *the* key to #AMA success for a lot of big names. Huge mistake, IMO. #sadz
— Tara Wright (@tdubs530) July 2, 2015
1 Reddit fires key person, with no replacement 2 Subreddit thrown into disarray, goes dark to reorganize 3 Everyone else goes dark in revolt
— Daddy Warpig (@Daddy_Warpig) July 3, 2015
.@reddit fired Victoria today and made r/IamA private. With one move they managed to eliminate two of the best things about reddit.
— Jason Alt (@littlewyvern) July 2, 2015
What is the aftermath of this news; that only time can tell. For now, we can only vent out our feelings and miss Victoria Taylor!