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I think I have a plausible explanation (please beware, this is 100% conjecture). Hypothesis 1: Jackson's AMA went badly, he/his team was specifically pissed at

I think I have a plausible explanation (please beware, this is 100% conjecture). Hypothesis 1: Jackson's AMA went badly, he/his team was specifically pissed at Victoria and demanded consequences, threatening a public campaign against reddit. Hypothesis 2: Conde Nast is not happy about the public perception of reddit as the biggest blob of hate on the Internet. So they might have given them a "one more headline news scandal" ultimatum. In that situation, there are no winners, only losers, there is nothing to gain and there isn't even a 100% guilty party.

pervycreeper 11y ago
>Jackson's AMA went badly, he/his team was specifically pissed at Victoria and demanded consequences, threatening a public campaign against reddit. This is a very plausible conjecture, especially in view of admins' comments in wake of the fatpeoplehate ban explicitly permitting racist anti-black subreddits to continue to operate. This could have become an existential threat to reddit. In view of that, and their apparent weathering of past anti-user controversies, a user revolt would seem like the lesser evil from a short-sighted perspective.